Choosing; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 4

Choosing

It's a choice, she says.

It's a deliberate opting for this

and not that.

Let me be specific and name the choices:

On one side: joy, life, curiosity.

On the other side is the easier,

more familiar, option:

the complaining dullard repulsed

by anything new.

Choices, choices.

Which will serve best?

Someone wrote:

Life is an adventure, not a catastrophe

(actually, I think they said "predicament", not catastrophe).

Can you try to remember that, please?

Tattoo it on your forehead, perhaps?

And remember also that change is the only constant.

Who you once were is not who you are.

You were formed by past experiences

(oh woe is me, alas, alack)

but

you are not still that person.

Choose well.

Greet the day with the explosion of happiness

that it deserves.

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Choosing; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 4

Choosing

It's a choice, she says.

It's a deliberate opting for this

and not that.

Let me be specific and name the choices:

On one side: joy, life, curiosity.

On the other side is the easier,

more familiar, option:

the complaining dullard repulsed

by anything new.

Choices, choices.

Which will serve best?

Someone wrote:

Life is an adventure, not a catastrophe

(actually, I think they said "predicament", not catastrophe).

Can you try to remember that, please?

Tattoo it on your forehead, perhaps?

And remember also that change is the only constant.

Who you once were is not who you are.

You were formed by past experiences

(oh woe is me, alas, alack)

but

you are not still that person.

Choose well.

Greet the day with the explosion of happiness

that it deserves.

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Bewilderment; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 3

Bewilderment

Bewilderment.

An affliction more painful than simply being

bewitched or bothered.

In any crowd you can pick out the faces

beset by bewilderment.

What am I doing here?

Are there any answers?

Is there a way to escape?

How do I learn what I should be doing?

Or is there even a "should" at all?

Perhaps I should (!) just go along

with whatever comes?

Go along to get along?

Is there a right way?

Is there only one right way?

Someone told me it's simply a question

of dealing, more or less skillfully,

with the situations I find myself in.

Could that be true?

By simply releasing my life's companion

(i.e., bewilderment)

will I find myself free to act?

These are the questions I see

on the bewildered faces in any crowd.

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