"And as for thy life, consider what it is; a wind; not one constant wind neither, but every moment of an hour let out, and sucked in again..... and also what it is to die, and how if a man shall consider this by itself alone, to die, and separate from it in his mind all those things which with it usually represent themselves unto us, he can conceive it no otherwise, than as a work of nature, and he that fears any work of nature is a very child ..... What art thou, that better and divine part excepted, but as Epictetus said well, a wretched soul, appointed to carry a carcass up and down"
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 121 -180
Love the highrises in the background..... This guy had some really cooool quotes. I'll start reproducing a few. Sounds like he was a bit like Anthony Robbins in a chariot. But he sure was a clever little Emperor. Big thinker obviously but I doubt he ever lived in a tent except when he went camping. Anyway a lot of his stuff back then was pretty similar to the stuff now. I think it's funny how he describes us as wretched souls appointed to carry a carcass up and down. Come to think of it, that's 'eggs actly' the way I feel. Hmmmm.......
As you know I spend a lot of time on my Needsearch, which of course is researching my own needs along with the needs of my fellow man, like YOU for instance. As far as quotes go I look for meaningful sayings relating back to the topic I am intending to cover. And the topic I am intending to cover is simply any subject relating to the mood I am in or my attempt at communicating the way I feel at the time. That's why my topics vary so much from day to day......
As you know I spend a lot of time on my Needsearch, which of course is researching my own needs along with the needs of my fellow man, like YOU for instance. As far as quotes go I look for meaningful sayings relating back to the topic I am intending to cover. And the topic I am intending to cover is simply any subject relating to the mood I am in or my attempt at communicating the way I feel at the time. That's why my topics vary so much from day to day......
Still STEPPIN' on my Journey.... For example I sometimes discuss topics that are a bit 'heavy'. If I am in a jovial mood in a sorta, maybe, kinda way I will try and 'dilute' the sombre subject with a bit of my sometimes ridiculous humor because I don't live a very 'normal' lifestyle and some of the hardship I encounter can tend to bring me down, so the lightheartedness I bring to my writing is as much therapeutic for me as it is for you, the readers, to have a bit of a giggle WITH me, as opposed to AT me. See I don't know whether I am confident yet to call myself a writer. It's too early to say. But what IS important is that my writing reflects my true feelings. Sometimes that can backfire on me because of the various stages in my mood changes. But again the writing must be a refection of my feelings AT THE TIME of writing and THAT, I can promise you, is how I will always write.......
Long long Journey....but pretty cooool.. And there is a reason for that. I see my Journey as an OPPORTUNITY for lessons in LIFE. Rock bottoms are certainly no picnics, and my ride over the last few years has been difficult, to say the least. But I am now doing something I wish I had been given an opportunity to do many years ago. I am able to tell a STORY. I hope through my writing that YOU will be able to relate in some way to my FEELINGS. That my empathy with you will be therapeutic to both of us. And so I hope you will FEEL my writing. That you will laugh with me, cry with me, be sad, be happy and SHARE MY FEELINGS with me. If I can feel that, then my Journey will have the Destin-ee that I am chasing, which, as you know is Happy-Me.
Life changes in so many ways but it is also important to keep in the forefront of our minds "Memento Mori". If we all live our lives knowing it will someday end then we will be richer for the knowledge we can SHARE with each other. We can SHARE our feelings, just like I am trying to do with you............
Life changes in so many ways but it is also important to keep in the forefront of our minds "Memento Mori". If we all live our lives knowing it will someday end then we will be richer for the knowledge we can SHARE with each other. We can SHARE our feelings, just like I am trying to do with you............
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