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The What and How of it all It appears, that as we age, WHAT we think changes. We never bother to figure out if HOW we think has changed. It rarely does. We learn to value the unimportance of the haves and have nots But rarely appreciate that a leopard can't change it's spots It's not about others, for we hopefully learn they are not within our realm of change. We must accept that a leopard cannot change it's spots, and live with it. But, looking inside of ourselves, Can we change our own spots? Comes the day, the sky is gray Does the sun shine, somewhere inside? or does the pain seem to come again If the rain has no place to hide It's not about WHAT we think, it about HOW we think. There will always be rain Sometimes close or sometimes distant There is no umbrella for what it is but there's shelter in what it isn't We tend not to question what something is. The mind believes in it's own truth. It's something that can't be changed, and has nothing to do with the right or wrong of it. It has to do with the "spots" of who we are. WHAT we think, we think we are our lives, our truth, more definite But HOW we think is more telling by far Our lives, our truth, more infinite I seems to get into a lot of disussions, that appear to be arguments, not because I disagree about WHAT someone thinks, but disagree with HOW someone thinks. This blog is my reminder of the folly of it all. For who's to say, that if there is no right or wrong of it, that I am right. For it is only my spots...I can change |
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5/18/2010 12:21 pm |
So true jiminy, We can only change ourselves. I had to change my thinking a long long time ago, and my spots with it
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5/18/2010 3:52 pm |
Interesting Jiminy. I do feel somewhere along the way certain events occur which shapes a persons thinking on issues. After a stint in the Army my older Brother went to work for his States Turnpike Athority. The Turnpike did not have a Union. About 10 years later it became unionized and had collective bargaining rights. Pay, benefits, working conditions and other concessions were secured with union contracts. In response the Turnpike Athority began a systematic employee weeding out process. A toll plaza which employed 10 collectors gave way to 4 as they were replaced with correct change hoppers. Soon a system of sensors were put in place and toll charges were debited from driver accounts in fast drive through lanes, those 4 collectors were replaced by just 2. They did away with toll booths at every exit and placed toll plazas hundreds of miles apart. When he first started work the Turnpike employed over 600 collectors. When he retired 9 yrs ago that number was under 200. He will not admit that because of union involvement jobs were lost. He will be pro union for the rest of his life. "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine
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