"The world is too much with us" one of my favorite Romantic (poet) William Wordsworth complained over 200 years ago. "Getting & spending, we lay wate our powers." (I can only remember these 2 stanzas) Today, many of us will agree with him. We are chronically exhausting from the "getting" - the amount of energy spent earning a living, attending to the demands of life & to the whimps & fancies of love ones. But despite of all the gloom & doom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransome our lives & reclaim our futures : it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy.
At least it works for me. Just recently a good friend expressed his fears to me. Telling me that he will be really affected if I move on with my life without him when I get married. I was indeed disturbed by such thoughts. As many who knows me, I was (& still is) constantly battling with the different opinions of people who forcefully trying to (still trying though not much of success - yet) exercise their influences on me. Adding on with the tremendous work load & family obligations, I began to withdraw myself into my own world. At least I get back my bearings & life goes on. For each of us, what that is happy will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. To me, one can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself & making others happy more than you providing happiness to yourself. We cannot let this continue to occur.
Happened to be quite a few friends' birthday this week & next. At presence & in advance wishing all of you a very wonderful & happy birthday. Especially you who sent me an email to remind me. Hahaha! I did remember - 28 September. Dinner's on me. Just make sure you keep your promise not to fall in love with me (LOL) And don't send me any more messages lamenting about being old. Remember, each age is different & each is utterly so valuable. If we can live each as we do, we'll have all the ages that went before with us as we move into the next phases of our lives. we do not need to leave the ages behind : we build on them. Why worry about getting older ? If we live each age, old age will be a glorious culmination.
DaRkAnGeL'S WoRdS oF WiSdOm :
"Flops are part of life's menu & I'm never a girl to miss out on a course. Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with me."
Comments:
*Great choice of topics. Looking forward to more of other life issues such as how to deal with dark hours, blues & frustrations.
*You rocked my world - again. If I were to live life again, I will still choose to know you. Though you kept telling me that's a bad idea. Where's the love you once promised me. No matter what, I will always be there when you need me.
* God blessed.
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