My Thinkin' Blog

On the face of it you could say I live a charmed life. There are not many people who can spend the afternoon mucking about down at the shore with their wee dog. Walloping about the rock pools, looking at the different types of seaweed...feeling their texture ugh, wondering about some of the funny shaped pepples and rocks...Watching the birds ... while having an internal dialogue with yourself about the futility of human existence. Mid week or any time I can't say as I know many people who would have the time or even the inclination to wallop about the shore. I think perhaps I have slipped back into my childhood. That time when life was charmed.

Life holds us in high esteem It offers us a chance to dream When young and strong, when Boundless hopes are high We reach, we strive to touch the sky. Unstoppable, our youth is want To make us stupid and arrogant. But, then our time has passed And we look back in woe Did we live our dreams , hit the heights? Ohh  no. Life passed as we ‘got on with it’ it seems Life passed, and so did pass our dreams.

In a few seconds You’d lost your name. In ten, your life. Ten seconds… slowed For eternity For all the world to see. We turned away. In shock and grief. We could not take The starkness of The sight Of you falling One among many (that day). Some turned to faith Some only saw Man’s naked cruelty To man. And in distress Turned right away. Turned right away. Tomorrow and the Next day and… No matter how Much time will pass. I will never forget The man falling. The world changing.

I believe that you rarely get what you want out of life, you rarely end up where you imagine that you should. I believe that your journey through life  - often difficult and heartbreaking is never what you imagine. The path you take is often far from how you imagine your life should progress. It is at times surprising, possibly shocking  sometimes distressing. You often grab the joy when you can - store the happy memories for darker times and as your story unfolds you have a notion that you never really had any control ... that is disconcerting because we are taught from an early age about things such as free will and choice..So surely we should have not just the appearance of control in our lives but some sort of control in how our lives turn out? Some people cannot be happy - they can't let themselves be because they cannot - or did not get the things that they want in life. I believe that it is no bad thing to recognise that life did not turn out as you wanted it to, but y

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive." C.S. Lewis   The concept of forgiveness is bound up with the idea of healing and with one person asking for forgiveness, or expressing their sorrow for some wrong they committed against another and the other person forgiving them.  Some believe the purist form of forgiveness is the sort that is not asked for. Think of the story of the prodical son ...there is no mention of forgiveness - the father just rejoices that he has his son back and throws a party.  The bible has an abundance of instructions on loving your enemies and forgiving your tresspassers. " For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you," Mathew 6:14 Oscar Wilde's quote "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." has a cynical and ironic twist with an element of truth in it.  John F Kennedy's quote "Forgive your enemies, but never forget th

Ovid said “Love is a kind of warfare” and maybe he was right. I do believe that love brings with it a kind of friction - it can be full of cares and fears. If your world is already knee deep with cares and fears you may not feel that you can ‘deal’ with the sort of friction that love will bring or the kind of pain that it leaves in its wake. I see friction in some of the couples I know, with some of them it is that positive friction that comes with the passion they have for one another; with others it is a negative friction of trying to make themselves (and each other) believe that they still have that sort of love when they do not. Where love is concerned our hearts can be quite feeble and fickle. Something we tend to forget is that love rarely lasts forever. Some people choose the comfort and contentment of their own solitude rather than the emotional turmoil of having  to deal with the sort of friction that love brings. Most however will always want love to be i