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Topic: Life Lessons: What Did You Learn?
misswright Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 1893	Sat 10/26/13 04:32 AM
I'm just barely starting to learn my life lessons, I've had to live them first. It finally took me looking at the end to see the beginning. I no longer say I will change this about tomorrow cause tomorrow has come and gone and all of those things changed were not really changes but steps along an unique path that has never been traveled before by anyone quite the same as I have and yet at the same time so many have taken these same steps. Fear is nothing more than something I have created and made into a prison, and bravery is nothing more than something faced and I am now on the other side of. Their not so different except one I thought about and the other I did without thinking through. Guilt is also something I made, and found that no one else was hanging on to my guilt but me. The battles are not about what they think of me but what do I think of myself. Love is something that I can choose to have and spread everyday. It's not something that I would have ever gotten by waiting for. It actually is something that I can create, cause it was created for me. It is the one true part of me that has always been, along with life. I can put it on any time I want and wear it as much as I want. Life I have found is about waking up. Waking up to something old or something new, it doesn't matter. What does matter is the time I spend living it. Well said Mg! You are a wise man. I especially like waking up to Folgers in my cup! But even without my coffee, I've learned that any day above ground is a good day. I've learned too many lessons to list. Probably the most important is to appreciate the little things in life. Saying I'll be happy when... (insert whatever you want here) ... is pretty much useless. There's an old commercial with a little old lady talking about how she wakes up everyday and has two choices. "I can be happy, or I can be sad" she says, "I choose to be happy." I have no idea what the commercial was for but I'll never forget that little old woman or her words. I strive to live like that, to think like that. I don't always succeed, but I do believe that stuff happens for a reason and it's all just a matter of perspective and choices. Even in my darkest days, I try to find something to be thankful for. It's actually quite easy once you set your mind to it! Now if my mind would just stay there once I set it there...dang thing likes to take off on me sometimes! Little sucker's quick too!

4evababy Joined Tue 02/26/13 Posts: 9258	Sat 10/26/13 04:45 AM Edited by 4evababy on Sat 10/26/13 04:50 AM
That I never believed that i'd be a Grandad, until half an hour ago, when my son told me that his girlfriend was 2 months gone. Still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm the happiest i've been in years? Congrats grandad! I've not long became a grandma so I know how you feel :)

larsson71 Joined Fri 09/20/13 Posts: 2204	Sat 10/26/13 05:01 AM Edited by larsson71 on Sat 10/26/13 05:03 AM
That I never believed that i'd be a Grandad, until half an hour ago, when my son told me that his girlfriend was 2 months gone. Still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm the happiest i've been in years? Congrats grandad! I've not long became a grandma so I know how you feel :) Thank you 4evababy, I know I can be a pain in the arse on here at times, but i'm not a bad guy in real life. Thanks again!

4evababy Joined Tue 02/26/13 Posts: 9258	Sat 10/26/13 05:03 AM
That I never believed that i'd be a Grandad, until half an hour ago, when my son told me that his girlfriend was 2 months gone. Still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm the happiest i've been in years? Congrats grandad! I've not long became a grandma so I know how you feel :) Thank you 4evababy, I know I can bd a pain in the arse on here at times, but i'm not a bad guy in real life. Thanks again! I don't doubt that larsson

Rawrr_Girl Joined Sun 10/04/09 Posts: 4431	Sat 10/26/13 01:42 PM
I'm just barely starting to learn my life lessons, I've had to live them first. It finally took me looking at the end to see the beginning. I no longer say I will change this about tomorrow cause tomorrow has come and gone and all of those things changed were not really changes but steps along an unique path that has never been traveled before by anyone quite the same as I have and yet at the same time so many have taken these same steps. Fear is nothing more than something I have created and made into a prison, and bravery is nothing more than something faced and I am now on the other side of. Their not so different except one I thought about and the other I did without thinking through. Guilt is also something I made, and found that no one else was hanging on to my guilt but me. The battles are not about what they think of me but what do I think of myself. Love is something that I can choose to have and spread everyday. It's not something that I would have ever gotten by waiting for. It actually is something that I can create, cause it was created for me. It is the one true part of me that has always been, along with life. I can put it on any time I want and wear it as much as I want. Life I have found is about waking up. Waking up to something old or something new, it doesn't matter. What does matter is the time I spend living it. Mikey

magicstick92 Joined Sat 09/07/13 Posts: 3	Sat 10/26/13 05:55 PM
NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR OWN HAPPINESS!!!

magicstick92 Joined Sat 09/07/13 Posts: 3	Sat 10/26/13 06:13 PM
I think the same way. Its like we came from the universe at birth of everything. If everything is energy(atoms) and were all connected then we must know all, we have simply forgotten. Also if everything is/are energy, then we all understand that energy can never truly die. It can only change form!