Category Archives: My Thoughts
This is a place for my random thoughts and musings. Enjoy..
“Free” Write
How can writing free you, when you allow the words to be trapped in the same way you’ve allowed your life to shackle you. Stuck trying to conform to a particular style or form the way you’ve boxed yourself into a career. Follow the rules and your words will be rewarded by promotion. Published and fed to the mainstream for their conformity, yet remain empty on the page they sit on. Their lack of meaning masked by the aesthetics of the language the same way your lack of character is hidden by your fancy suits.
They call you a poet, but I see a fraud. Someone who’s afraid to allow their words to soar beyond the restrictions of form. Outside the realm of art, existing in the unspoken language that spoken words can’t reach. Written to the pulse of your heart and read like braille by the soul; you have to feel it to understand its meaning.
Quite frankly your words don’t move me.
Sunday Reflections – Part 2
When I was 20, I knew what I wanted to do with my life and it included things like getting a high paid job, selling some books of poetry, buying a house, and having the prestige of someone doing something big with their life… I did it, and like many others before me, I learned that accomplishing the goals I had at 20 weren’t as fulfilling as I expected it to be.
Today, I still know what I want to do with my life but I have to admit it looks a little different now than it did before. Now it’s please God, be a good husband and father, and help someone else realize that happiness doesn’t come from what you achieve in the eyes of man, but it comes from who you are in the eyes of God.
Let’s have a good week people.
Sunday Reflections – Part 1
The easy part is to accept God and acknowledge that you’re blessed.
The more difficult tasks is to project a positive attitude of someone who is blessed by God at all times; through the triumphs and tribulations, in the face of love and hate, and in particular in the world we live where there the negativity is far more prevalent than the positive. It’s not impossible to maintain a positive attitude, remember you have God; but it is something we have to work at.
So when you’re sitting there and something happens, or you hear something, or you see something.. Try to find that positive energy before you speak and before you act. The world will appreciate the change of pace.
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