For the youngins … this is a song from 1966! That gives comfort because it tells me that for GENERATIONS we have tried to ‘figure out’ life! As a kid I was sure that I would receive a failing grade if I was not not clear on my understanding of life and my direction in it.
Life is fluid…always shifting so even if I did figure it out and reach Nirvana I wasn’t staying long. Nothing is constant… absolutely nothing.
Some would say this is the best time of your life! I figure they must have forgotten what it’s like to be young! Where do I fit? Did I do that right? Why aren’t they talking to me? Everyone is always telling me what to do? When do I decide? Oh my goodness I don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life!!!! And on……..best time?
Maybe it can be good if I allow myself to explore….. it might need a road map and a permission slip. Find a voice you can hear……….….your own. All the different experiences with others is to help you accept the differences in us all! It develops patience and tolerance and leads a path to YOUR people! The ones that ‘get you’.
There is no pass or fail. Your mark in grade 10 history will never be noted…. unless by you. It just doesn’t matter
Did I do my best….do I have an ‘inner authority’ that’s the voice I need to develop. It doesn’t matter if I can hit a high C on my clarinet without it screeching…..but I develop a muscle while learning it. The muscle that perseveres to learn something new. In cultivating the ability to laugh at that screeching ‘c’; I’m better able to laugh at some of the pretty sour notes I’ve hit in my life. We all do And……..have I found ways to bring happiness and contentment to my life? Never constant….but moments
QUOTE Teddy Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again , because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly”
as introduced to me by Brene Brown in Daring Greatly