Comments on: no miracle

By: kellypea

kellypea — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:12:16 +0000

I know that relief. I feel it every day right now. Sometimes, depending on my mood, I still feel guilty that my nose isn’t on that grindstone which always privately belonged to someone else I was trying to please. But most days are peaceful, and I hope that’s how you feel, too.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:03:31 +0000

Now that you realise you’re not that special perhaps you could concentrate on your punctuation. Always remember “life is but a joke”.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:34:22 +0000

((((((hugs)))))) from all.

Love ya

By: scot

scot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:30:19 +0000

a lot of us got lucky

By: Joyce Ellen Davis

Joyce Ellen Davis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:43:01 +0000

PS Dr Lewis Thomas wrote in “Lives of a Cell”: Statistically speaking, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise….You’d think we’d never stop dancing.

By: Joyce Ellen Davis

Joyce Ellen Davis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:34:47 +0000

Was it Albert Einstein who said there are two ways to live our lives: one is to believe that everything is a miracle, and the other to believe that nothing is. I think I choose the first.

By: Corina

Corina — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:51:03 +0000

I think you just freed yourself when you made that realization. I can see how you feel. What a burden must have been lifted from your shoulders.

Now that means you can do something great or not. You can do what you want to do, not what you thought you were meant to do. You are the pilot!

By: rel

rel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:32:58 +0000

paisley,
Well put my dear. I couldn’t have said it better. We are no greater a miracle than the oak from the acorn, or the frog from the tadpole. To believe we are is the height of egotism, surley unwarranted. To paraphrase an old acquaintance of mine: we come , and we go!
rel

By: Tumblewords

Tumblewords — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:05:55 +0000

Ah, I tried to write to this topic and ended up taking a pass. You’ve done a fine job! So, I’ll put my stuff away and re-read yours! Nice job, Jodi – as always.

By: christine

christine — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:27:21 +0000

Great introspection. I’m glad you came to a conclusion that lightened your load. A part of life will always be a mystery, it seems.