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Old Man I'm an old man now got sand in my shoe I can't seem to bend over I can't seem to undo. It's caught between my heal and somewhere above the soul between what is... and isn't real A part of me . That makes me whole From the beach.......and between my toes “I can see clearly now, the rain is gone” The “Chrystal Ships”, "Doors" upon the water And the “Little Mermaid” out to sea “I wish I could be......Part of your world” But gray has changed the color In the autumn of my life And the wrinkles of coming winter Has turned it “black and white”. I'm just an Old Man now Got sand in my shoe But the sand, doesn't bother me now and I wouldn't dream to undo. |
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If you got ....What You NEED You don't NEED...what you want..
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The years have taught me that wanting and needing what I have is all I got.
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The years have taught me that wanting and needing what I have is all I got. Which for most would be true.. but you got it right.. It's more a matter of acception. The "gifts" we have been given is all we NEED....If we can open the "present" and find them.
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Yes...... but it seems..It's all a matter of perception....and per exception. Which for most would be true.. but you got it right.. It's more a matter of acception. The "gifts" we have been given is all we NEED....If we can open the "present" and find them. Today I'm mostly free from it, with only a few twinges of regret here and there......
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My gosh.. It's all a matter of acceptance.. It never really about the results Think of it as the same as the fallacy of love lost, as in opportunity lost. Same thing You don't think about it when you have it.. You only think about it.. if you lose it.. Instead.... when you lose it.. You got to think about what it would be like to never have had it. We forget our choices.. when we get the results we want.. Bad results may define the choice...but it's getting to make the choice, and not the results...that defines who you are. Think about the "opportunity" to love some body, It's all around you.. whether you choose not to.. or you make choices that turn out wrong.....It may become an opportunity lost.. But if you had the choice...Would rather be someone... who was "incapable".. of even acknowledging or recognizing the opportunity. It's having the choice that matters.. not the choice you make..
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"It's having the choice that matters.. not the choice you make.." So very true!!
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Acceptance is sometimes hard-won.....Accepting our own life choices. I have written a lot about how ambition in my youth caused regrets in my middle years.......I was in my 50s when I was writing articles for a small Fine Arts journal....and I did a series on successful women artists. I attended the openings of their exhibitions and later interviewed them in person or by phone. I saw they had made different life choices than me and how those choices had led to our relative success. I deeply regretted my choices at that point and s ver y unkind to myself for several years.......Then I saw ambition and moved it right into the limelight of my psyche and examined it thoroughly. Ambition turned out to be an artificial construct. It's importance was bloated and advertised incessantly by our culture...........It snuck in when I wasn't looking.......My early philosophy of Simplicity had moved over to make room for ambition. Today I'm mostly free from it, with only a few twinges of regret here and there...... When one's ambition should be..... becoming the best one can be..... But it seems, instead, to mean becoming better than you are. Which is ironic.. Because, in truth, What ambition becomes.. is being the best you can be.. but fooling others..... that you're better than you are.
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