Dedicated to Adrian and Johan, two of my very few friends, who tried patiently to make me see, with thanks for their efforts. To my family, for all that my wild ways put them through.
They say life is a wheel, going round and round, up and down.
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They say the Fates sit on their stools, spinning out the predetermined threads of everyone’s existence.
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We say we’re alive and for the most part try to live. But if life is a wheel, then perhaps we should hold fast to it, like a piece of chewing gum instead of marble. To be stubborn and strong, even if it’s with the strength of desperation. To rise with the wheel of life, feel the sun and bask in the glory, then when it heads downward, to find comfort in its shade and from somewhere summon the strength to endure the crush when it touches the ground beneath.
So that while we’re being crunched, smashed, flattened, dirtied by the filth on that road and stretched out by the pressures of things bigger than us, hold on with the certain knowledge that it shall pass and we will most definitely rise again- because rigid marble makes for beautiful statues but gets crunched to dust, while gum, distasteful and annoying to step on though it is, is nevertheless persistent and flexible enough to endure. Then again, if you don't want to get crunched, you can always try to hold onto the spokes, because where there's a will (and wheel), there's bound to be more than one way...
Comments
We only fail when we accept failure!
What are your alternatives? Seriously. What are your alternatives?
I never thought of you as a fatalist. In Thailand, KARMA is different than the western concept. Here we believe a person can change their fate by changing their behavior and that Karma/Fate is the result of a chosen lifestyle, not some preordained path written by some unknown force.
You made your Karma my friend, and only you can change it!
NEVER SURRENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still dream of all the wrong decisions I made in life, and all the people who wronged me. I never dream of all the good times I had, or the people I helped. It seems to be my nature and perhaps human nature to dwell on failure and try to find solutions to things that have passed.
If you think it will help, publish your worst experience on WB. After all, no one hear knows you really. What have you got to lose? (As Trump told the blacks.)
I am guessing much on your angst comes from past government action. SA is in the midst of throwing aside the old Apartheid and ANC delusions. Try to find a Party that you believe can govern SA for all the people, and volunteer to help in any way you can.
Helping to build a new world, will help dissipate the old memories!
I found my new place! I hope you find yours.
Charlie the EXPAT.
Yeah, most of my anger and pain come from things governments did, but when a government doesn't want to hold itself to account, there's only one alternative left and I'm not willing to go down that road just yet. Far better to rise out of the darkness and embrace the light, I think. Oh, my place is somewhere in the mountains of the U.S., Canada, Scotland or New Zealand (in order of preference), and all I need is enough money to make it happen. Then, to quote King from the movie Platoon, "I'm a gone motherfucker!" :-)))