Tempting, fleeting, compelling, beckoning,
Life never stops, allows for the reckoning.
As dusk descends, Aphrodite awaits;
What’s stopping us now, it’s up to the fates.
A woman is not an object that can be possessed,
So drink in her perfume, then hope for the best.
She’s yours for the taking, perhaps for the breaking,
But trust and compassion will keep hearts from aching.
Friendship and lust are the fuel for confusion,
But slowly you’ll part the truth from delusion,
And find that the love that you wisely invest,
Will slowly grow stronger and heed your behest.
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(Sometimes a very simple melody combined with poignant lyrics that almost everyone can understand is all that’s needed to create a beautiful song. Hats off to the one and only John Lennon.)
How do you know the road to take when you don’t know where you’re going? Well, you don’t ever know for sure. Like Alice in Wonderland, you see something that captures your fancy and follow it wherever the path may lead. Or maybe something pushes you in a particular direction. Regardless, there you are until you seek a new road to travel, or until life throws an unexpected obstacle in your way.
How do you know what it is you’re feeling? You don’t. Feelings change from day to day; yet you must eventually make certain commitments and stand by them. You must do this because life is absolutely worthless without people who care about you to share it with. Then again, this is a choice — if a largely solitary existence is your preference, you must commit to it and find peace and satisfaction in that decision.
How do you know how to give love if you’ve never received it? Well, I can’t answer that question — any absence of love in my life has been solely because I’ve rejected it so many times. And in general, for someone with so little family, I’ve experienced love in abundance. So maybe it is difficult to give love if you don’t know what it is, and if you’ve never felt its comforting arms wrapped around you on a sleepless night. But I doubt it. You give love because it is instinctively human to do so, and instinctively human to want love returned. But beware — don’t confuse love with obsession; unrequited love is not love at all, it is an illusion, a dream, and a longing for something that cannot exist. Falling into the obsession trap seems to be a result of low self-esteem, fear of loss, and fear of pain. Yet, ironically, it’s exactly the way to exacerbate these emotions. Remember, love must be mutual, and love must be returned. Otherwise you’re not in it, you’re just on the outside peeking in.
In this life, we don’t always get what we deserve. Hard work isn’t always rewarded, innocent lives are cruelly cut short, windfalls of good fortune shower those who seem least worthy — and yet, to the extent possible, we always have the ability to exert some control over our personal journeys. So love freely, live bravely, and share yourself with those in need. You may not always receive the same in kind, but experiencing life is always better than standing in the cold looking into someone else’s cozy window.
If you want warmth, you must provide it in return. If you want peace, you must be peaceful. If you don’t want to be controlled, you shouldn’t be controlling. And if you want to receive, you must be able to give, and give in the right way. Sure, there are exceptions to every rule — just as there are lottery winners in every lottery. But the law of probability being what it is, you won’t be the exception, and you won’t win the lottery. Or maybe you will, in which case this post doesn’t really apply to you.
Finally, don’t listen to me, I’m certainly no expert on life — I’m just a lost soul walking the planet, looking for answers, and trying to have the best time I possibly can in the process.
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Hasn’t everyone felt this way at times? Perhaps if you haven’t, you haven’t looked at yourself closely enough. We’re all damaged in one way or another, and no one is to blame. While personal responsibility looms in the background, it’s difficult to deny that we are creatures of circumstance, and both our genes and our environment determine how we grow up, how we live, and who are when we depart this wicked earth. But most importantly, no one is better than anyone else. In this country, we’re so focused on fame and money, that the things I truly respect seem to get lost in all the glitter — critical thinking, kindness, tolerance, understanding, and compassion. Granted, as I’ve said before, we have little control over our innate intelligence, but we do have some control over the education we obtain and the way we use it. And education doesn’t necessarily need to come from an expensive college — it can come from books, curiosity, and careful observation of the world around us.
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This is a cover of a Lightning Seeds tune. Just to keep the record straight:
In order for people to read your blog, you have to write in it, but lately I’ve been inexcusably remiss. The reason is I’m working three contract jobs — one full-time (with occasional breaks), plus two others. The amount of work is unpredictable, so I never know what to expect, though I’ve gone for 24 hours without many breaks for quite a few days. Also, some of the work has to be done on the computer, which always pulls me in the direction of facebook and myspace. (For those who haven’t noticed, I write a few notes in the myspace blog as well.) So here is an entry that says absolutely nothing other than that I’ve been too busy to write.
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