wisdom

If You can…

Temper yourself so that you don’t always search for the easiest, but rather the best.

Learn to rise above ignorance, short-sightedness, entitlement, and the acceptance that will inevitably surround you.

Push yourself to learn, to be better, not necessarily the best and not necessarily everything.

Choose wisely and have fun! Understand that happiness is fleeting and that to search for it is futile.

Keep your body and mind as fit as possible because they are truly the only things you have.

Be fair. Be honest. Be understanding but be stern and reasonable.

Don’t accept anything because it becomes acceptable. Don’t be lackadaisical with right and wrong.

The Stoic

When everything else falls away look for where it is you are standing. There is always a somewhere and a something.

Can you move? Then do so. Is there a difference? Then make it. It is true: life is an empty glass; fill it or not.

Don’t listen to fools. Dismiss them even if the world bows before their tripe. Rise above and be alone if that is what it takes.

Looking for beauty is a search that has two parts. First there is fleeting beauty. Then there is the beauty of truth. The one a woman who grows old and the other a god that smiles.

An empty heart will sometimes stand still and wait. And sometimes it will search for search for something to love. It is not fickle; we are dismissive.

When you have nothing to say or to write about, listen. If what you hear is silence, enjoy it.

Til’ Death Do Us Part

To look for meaning in life is a natural thing to do.  Most, it might be said, look to find meaning in their work or their family; perhaps, both.  It doesn’t really seem to matter, only that there is meaning in life.  We fight against a shallow existence, but often we find ourselves being the consumer of things rather than thought.

And this is where life takes us,especially when we are young.  But we get old, if we are fortunate, and it is in age that we find that the world cannot be fixed or saved; that we cannot fight the march of what we as a generation choose to call progress.  The wars continue to be fought, children born, people die.

There is injustice in the world now, as there always has been.

It is not that we get wiser as we get older (wisdom is a rarity).  It is just, maybe, that we get tired; that we realize that the world will not be fixed or saved; that our continuous fight is doing nothing but making us miserable; and in the end we die anyway.

This is not as gloomy as it may first seem.

There are choices that confront us, and if we take the time, we will be faced with choices that actually matter.  If fighting for justice, for wisdom, for progress makes us miserable, perhaps it is us that needs to be saved or fixed for the fight will always and forever be there; until death do us part.