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RE: Choices and Healthy Decisions

in #life • 8 years ago (edited)

I'm so happy for you mere. You made the right decision(s) ...Only one regret? You're no Edith Piaf but you're way ahead of me. I have more regrets than Donne has sins...No, I have more. I've learned to live with them - I write about them. I dream about them at night. Life is an occasional episode of happiness in a general drama of pain. I accept that. What makes me happy are free things like rain and wind and stars and of course, children and animals but I worked hard all my life sometimes working three jobs at a time to raise three kids so I could go on enjoying the free things :) You made the right decisions. I'm happy for you

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     8 years ago 

    I love your quote "Life is an occasional episode of happiness in a general drama of pain." That's a powerful statement but one that I absolutely don't fathom, John.

    Here's my attitude: No one gets out alive.

    • Make lemonade out of those lemons.
    • If it hurts, don't do it again.
    • Give everyone 100% benefit of the doubt and let them whittle themselves out of your life. There are, of course, exceptions to the 100% rule but those are rare.
    • Stop everything at least once a day to find beauty in something.

    I love the moon, stars, thunderstorms, and listening to the various bird song and I'd be deflated, lost, or off kilter if I didn't have a shot of my free things every day.

    I know about working 3 jobs to support a family and I'm so glad that's behind me and we all survived it. Now that I'm practically an empty-nester, I tell everyone that I'm regressing into the happy childhood I always wanted. LOL

    In my opinion though, your writing is so easy to connect to because I can feel the depth of pain and longing. I have those deep wells and dark passageways but those stories are only told when they have dialogue if that makes any sense to you.

    Maybe they are my would've, could've, should've, but didn't's - you know, playbacks of how I might have done things differently - but I will never call them regrets.

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       8 years ago 

      thanks, mere, as always for your honesty...yes I agree about dialogue being the mainspring of what brings our stories to life. I simply put two characters together and see what happens. The ideal is an authentic exchange - what Martin Buber calls an "I-Thou" relationship. We have that, mere :)

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