In just a moment, we usually know right now and quick the difference between thinking really, really great things I mean, imagining the impossible versus doing just really simple things, good things: paying for a guy’s cup of coffee, paying for a couple that you look across the room and you see they’re sitting at the diner you’re in and you pay for their bill, or you see a little girl asking her daddy if she can have a doughnut and he said, Oh no, not today, honey, we don’t have the money,” but you go up to the cashier and you make sure that they do have the money or, or maybe it’s just a simple somebody popped into your head and you think about “wouldn’t it be nice not to buy him a big gift, but just to send them a card or a text to say, “HEY, you just popped in my head and I thought I’d send you a text just to see how you’re doing for no other reason than (the most power two words): JUST BECAUSE. . .It’s shameful and I’m not proud of it, but I do so many great things that I think about that I imagine in my head, that I never actually do, and if in fact, I did half the things that I thought about for the good of somebody else, I can’t imagine how much better the world would be or individual people.
“I thought it was a good idea at the time,” and then I didn’t act on it. So it’s not so much my New Year’s resolution as it is my Lifetime resolution: When somebody pops into my mind or when I wake up, thinking of them or when I see them I just wanna text them, or stop by, or send them a card let him know that I’m thinking of them; and if I just did that one thing, nothing more just that one thing, what a difference it might make not just in them, but just their simple day and their day-to-day routines to know that somebody thought about them and acted on itI don’t know if this will make a difference. I hope I am A Caring Catalyst enough to find out and more, inviting you along with me to find out, too.
Here’s your LICENSE to go a little past
THINKING
and
D O I N G
the next best thing. . .
THE ROADS WE WON ‘T WALK
S T R A N G E
how walking down
ROAD
can quickly take you down
a n o t h e r
. . .when I first saw this video and heard the song
by Bruno Major
and read the lyrics:
Sunlight dances off the leaves,
Birds of red, colour the trees,
Flowers filled with buzzing bees,
In places we won’t walk.
Neon lights shine bold and bright,
Buildings grow at dizzying heights,
People come alive at night,
In places we won’t walk.
Children cry and laugh and play,
Slowly hair will turn to grey,
We will smile to end each day,
In places we won’t walk.
Family look on in awe,
Petals decorate the floor
Waves gently stroke the shore
In places we won’t walk
Children cry and laugh and play,
Slowly hair will turn to grey,
We will smile to end each day,
In places we won’t walk.
. . .Well, they took me quickly to
Robert Frost’s timeless lines:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Which took me down the Road
to this immortal question:
DO YOU HAVE ANY REGRETS?
(or phrased differently)
DO YOU HAVE ANY DO-OVERS?
What would you change?
What would you tweak?
What would you speed up?
What would you postpone?
What page of the book of your life would you rip out?
What paragraph would you delete?
What words would you change?
Could the
A N S W E R
actually be
N O N E. . .
Could you ever dare believe
that each
mistake
regret
terrible decision
mishap
tragedy
flaw
foible
wrong road taken
was actually
THE RIGHT ONE
after all. . .
not because
ALL ROADS
lead to the
SAME PLACE
but always to the
SAME CONCLUSION:
Each
the good and the bad
the right and the wrong
the horrible and the happy
not only gave us another thread
to our Tapestry
but also another piece
to our Puzzle
BOTH
not only further
COMPLETING US
but also
IMPROVING US
along
THE WAY
(our own individual way)
by showing us
what felt like didn’t work
. . .D I D
all on
(ESPECIALLY ON)
THE ROADS WE WON’T WALK
(but have, just the same)
Going to HELL
S O M E T I M E S
what we
T H I N K
and what we
K N O W
are two different
U N I V E R S E S
that never really ever meet
on the obscure
C O N T I N E N T
of the not very often enough visited
E X P E R I E N C E
But what you know
what you know you know
what you’d bet your life
that you know. . .
we least
A C T
like we know
L I F E
is often
a metaphor
a simile
but rarely a
R E A L I Z E D R E A L I T Y
HOME
HEAVEN
HELL
are not PO BOX Addresses
or Destinations
. . .they’re not even
dreams
illusions
or realities
. . .they are our
c h o i c e s
choices with consequences
. . .s o. . .
G O T O H E L L
you might be surprised by the trip
you might be surprised by the destination
you might be surprised by the
H E L L O F I T
CHOICES
W E L L . . .
W H A T S A Y Y O U ?
Simple question, huh?
Not really. . .
I posted this randomly on my Facebook page and I received the most comments and shares out of any other post–
Blog
ALL COMBINED . . .
E V E R !
Some answers were
Philosophical
Theological
Humorous
R E D
B L U E
B O T H
Some Answers were filled with
Justifications
Validations
Rationalizations
Hopes
Wishes
Dreams
Goals
But make no mistake. . .
it erupted with
R E S P O N E S
S O . . .
WHAT SAY YOU ?
and maybe more. . .
W H Y
S A Y
Y O U
?