07-28-2019, 01:14 PM
Day 7 (1)
Today is my birthday and to celebrate this occasion I... visited my mom. Don't worry, it's not that bad, I've already celebrated it with some of my friends and I'll meet with the rest in the next days
In recent weeks meeting my mother is always an intellectual treat. She's not the most educated person in the world but she does not lack wisdom and she shares it when asked. Add to that similarities between our characters and lots to swallow due to recent hardships and we have recipe for quite a discussions about love and life and all that Jazz.
What I must admit, though I am a little bit ashamed of it, is that I became quite nostalgic recently. I think it started with my craze to analyze everything and anything but it ends up a little bit different. Often when one looks into the past one sees regrets, wasted time and unfulfilled dreams. What I see now is gratitude. I was given so much and I believe I did not waste it. I'm talking here mostly about my parents of course, but also about my school, my friends, my loves and heartaches, pretty much everything that shaped me into a man I am today.
When you look down the past and realize there is little if anything you might want to change if you could - that is truly something else. And please, don't take this as a claim about how perfect I am. It's more about appreciation, not taking things for granted and, more than anything else, ability to accept and learn from one's failures, mistakes and defeats. Life ain't gonna go your way all the time. And when it doesn't it's not a punishment, it's a lesson. Lit me learn from these lessons.
Let me not squander the chance I've been given.
And for goodbye - a nice song to highlight my today's mood.
Today is my birthday and to celebrate this occasion I... visited my mom. Don't worry, it's not that bad, I've already celebrated it with some of my friends and I'll meet with the rest in the next days
In recent weeks meeting my mother is always an intellectual treat. She's not the most educated person in the world but she does not lack wisdom and she shares it when asked. Add to that similarities between our characters and lots to swallow due to recent hardships and we have recipe for quite a discussions about love and life and all that Jazz.
What I must admit, though I am a little bit ashamed of it, is that I became quite nostalgic recently. I think it started with my craze to analyze everything and anything but it ends up a little bit different. Often when one looks into the past one sees regrets, wasted time and unfulfilled dreams. What I see now is gratitude. I was given so much and I believe I did not waste it. I'm talking here mostly about my parents of course, but also about my school, my friends, my loves and heartaches, pretty much everything that shaped me into a man I am today.
When you look down the past and realize there is little if anything you might want to change if you could - that is truly something else. And please, don't take this as a claim about how perfect I am. It's more about appreciation, not taking things for granted and, more than anything else, ability to accept and learn from one's failures, mistakes and defeats. Life ain't gonna go your way all the time. And when it doesn't it's not a punishment, it's a lesson. Lit me learn from these lessons.
Let me not squander the chance I've been given.
And for goodbye - a nice song to highlight my today's mood.
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
