Every day for a week I thought about the silver haired lady and her words of wisdom.
Every day I’d pictured the boat called Freedom, and every day I’d imagined how gloriously happy I’d be if I could see this boat in reality.
I needed to see this boat.
How could I live a life of mediocrity and boredom when I knew a better life existed? …A better life was actually possible …and I’d really believed it was, I was desperate to believe it was possible …but to be honest, I was now starting to have a few niggling doubts…
...
Read More Link On Right
I was coughing, spluttering. Salty seawater filled my mouth. I looked up and everywhere there were people swimming.
There must have been thousands of people …a multitude of arms and legs kicking, all moving in one huge anti clockwise circle, the size of an athletic track. In the center was a small desert island with a few palm trees and a person who was throwing food to the swimmers.
What was going on? How had I got here?
I was quickly halted from my thoughts as a jolt of pain shot up my leg. Some guy aged about 50 had blindly kicked me as he swam by. I tried to call out but he didn’t seem to hear me.
I started to panic a little and tried to grab other people’s attention but everyone just kept on swimming, and I was blocking the way. Other people hit me and kicked me as they struggled to get around so I had to either swim with them or drown (…or so I thought at the time…)
...
Read More Link On Right
Treasure Every Moment in Life By Iggy KTFA
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with 86,400.
It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!!!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
...
Read More Link On Right
Where / How Do You Look? What Do You See? What Do you Think? How Do You Think? What Do You Know? How Do You Know?
{Italic portion from User Nelg Dinar Vets - Quotes from Recaps Team}
Short story: There was a man named Hull who took advantage of a controversy over whether there had been giants in America. So, in his effort to make some money, he had a "giant" meticulously carved in stone even to the point of small holds (holes?) in the surface to represent pours (pores?) in the skin.
It became so popular that people traveled all over the world to view the "giant." Hull made a lot of money.
P.T. Barnum tried to buy the exhibit so he too could make some money. His bid failed and the "giant" was sold to a syndicate from Syracuse, NY led by a banker, David Hannum for $30,000, and Hull held on to 2/3s of the profits.
P.T. Barnum was not to be outdone so he had built (carved) his own "giant." He then proclaimed that Hunnum had sold the real, authentic "giant" to Barnum and that the "giant" that Hunnum was displaying was a fake.
...
Read More Link On Right
Views of the world from four different minds - four different sets of eyes - four different hearts - How do YOU see the world?
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart” - John Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Four Views
Once a wise master had four students who exceeded all others in ability. One day the five gathered, and the master spoke to the first student, “Tell me what you see when you look into the world.”
“I see savagery. The planet is raped. The world hides from the truth. Contaminating material is released everywhere. There is particulate matter in the heavens and acid rain.
The rain forests are being destroyed, and so is the ozone. There is such ignorance and selfishness. The world needs so much correction.”
...
Read More Link On Right
