Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
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When we are young, lack of pleasure can be painful. When we are old, lack of pain is pleasurable.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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“My friend’s are gone and my hair is grey, I ache in the places that I used to play and I’m crazy for love, but I’m not letting on. Just paying my rent everyday in this tower of song”
-Leonard Cohen
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I really like poetry and song lyrics, certain statements phrases evoke some emotion or thought and it’s pretty amazing how we can connect to something that is written, spoken or sung in a song. This is a poem, it’s fairly emotional and there’s a lot of quotes from it, this dude captures a pretty emotional moment in his life and not everything matches up with yours or my personal experiences, but it’s something I’m sure we can all relate to in one way or another… Check this out @Cary1
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Here is another:
I haven’t listened to their newer stuff, but their older work is very good.
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@anon44012888 He paints some vivid images that some people won’t relate to, but that are based on authentic feelings and past experiences. A troubled heart can foster creativity and a variety of disparate images. His line of “giving up on a better past” is one that a good friend of mine used many years ago. It is so true, yet some of us hold onto loss, grief, resentment and anger…sometimes lashing out and sometimes lashing inward. Forgiveness is the key to so many things, and I know, I sometimes forget that. And forgiveness doesn’t just happen. There is no timetable. But for me, I have to have the intention to work toward forgiveness, for harms I have done others, for harms that were done to me and for harms I have done to myself. When it occurs, it feels incredible…like dropping a heavy bag of rocks that have weighted me down…sometimes for years, sometimes for decades.
WOW !! This didn’t start out to be so heavy. But it’s real.
Thanks for posting this.
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When we stop looking at ourselves, when we no longer question ourselves, we become self-righteous and dogmatic. Our discourse becomes a one-way street: We cannot hear others, and real dialogue becomes impossible.
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In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.
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The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.
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Wow, his ability to let his subconscious freely flow into his consciousness and create a completely different expression than we’re used to hearing is admirable. Innovative and talented…and moving.
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Another wow! It’s so refreshing to hear new and creative descriptive writing. I was just searching today on the topic of descriptive expressions used in fictional writing. They used famous authors like Charles Dickens and his talent for describing his characters so well you could see and feel them clearly in front of you. This young poet has the talent of describing his feelings in ways I’ve never heard before and convinces you, without a doubt, his profession of undying love.
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A lot of good stuff in there.
“I still show up for gentleman practice”.
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One of my favourite gems from “afterlife”
“I just threatened a ten year old with a hammer.”
“They’ve got to learn.”
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A true selfless act always sparks another.
Favourite christmas film “Klaus” watch it on your own or with your kids or loved one next yuletide season.
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A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
G.K. CHESTERTON
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Yeah, stiff apologies…
“I’m sorry I lost my temper, it’s just that…”.
That is not an apology, that is an encore.
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I don’t think I’ve heard it put so succinctly and eloquent before. Bravo!
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So true. I never learned how to say “sorry” without offering an excuse until well into adulthood (and in recovery). Now I try to remember to not only say I am sorry, but to ask what I can do to make things right. What I have learned is a genuine apology and offering make things right can truly be healing…for both sides of the situation.
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