That's a marvelous attitude, Michael. I envy you your constant, irrepressible optimism. I'm 60 percernt optimistic...but that other 40 percent does get me down from time to time. Too much empathy on my part. Empathy to a higher degree, which I have, precludes me responding initially to people who are down with an optimistic attitude.
I don't fullly trust you, as you know---but I do love that you can react/respond to the negative with sheer optimism. That is, indeed, a fine, fine quality-and a much needed one....
Could it be so simple as EXPECTING good things to happen make good things happen????? Seems so sophomoric....and stupid....and naive....and yet....and yet....and yet.....
Pat
Quoting michael_080
Its true Pat. Good fortune always comes my way.
When I made more money than I'd ever dreamed of, good fortune had come my way. When I lost everything and was basically homeless (didn't even have a car), good fortune came my way and it all turned around. Through all of the ebb and flow (as Tink described it), good fortune has always shown up in my life. But then, I always expect good things to show up in my life. In some form or fashion, it seems it always does.
Quoting michael_080
Its true Pat. Good fortune always comes my way.
When I made more money than I'd ever dreamed of, good fortune had come my way. When I lost everything and was basically homeless (didn't even have a car), good fortune came my way and it all turned around. Through all of the ebb and flow (as Tink described it), good fortune has always shown up in my life. But then, I always expect good things to show up in my life. In some form or fashion, it seems it always does.
That's a marvelous attitude, Michael. I envy you your constant, irrepressible optimism. I'm 60 percernt optimistic...but that other 40 percent does get me down from time to time. Too much empathy on my part. Empathy to a higher degree, which I have, precludes me responding initially to people who are down with an optimistic attitude.
I don't fullly trust you, as you know---but I do love that you can react/respond to the negative with sheer optimism. That is, indeed, a fine, fine quality-and a much needed one....
Could it be so simple as EXPECTING good things to happen make good things happen????? Seems so sophomoric....and stupid....and naive....and yet....and yet....and yet.....
.Everybody knows about the ebbing and flowing of life , the ever contunuing circle of life. Weve all witnessed it in one way or another and maybe havent paid attention to it. It never ceases to amaze me this rythm.... theres a kind of poetry to it which is ever changing but at the same time not changing at all. I identified this years ago and now, as a result I never worry when things go wrong because nothing ever stays the same, and when things are going well, I allways have one foot squarely on the ground in the certain knowledge that things will change there too and although we never know what those changes will be .... change is coming anyway. I have learned to embrace these changes as part of the never ending story of life.
.Everybody knows about the ebbing and flowing of life , the ever contunuing circle of life. Weve all witnessed it in one way or another and maybe havent paid attention to it. It never ceases to amaze me this rythm.... theres a kind of poetry to it which is ever changing but at the same time not changing at all. I identified this years ago and now, as a result I never worry when things go wrong because nothing ever stays the same, and when things are going well, I allways have one foot squarely on the ground in the certain knowledge that things will change there too and although we never know what those changes will be .... change is coming anyway. I have learned to embrace these changes as part of the never ending story of life.
Michael, I do indeed think you are right in all you've said here. Except for this: I don't think it's a circle of life you've talked about. I think it's more like a trapezoid superimposted on an acute triangle, superimposed on a rhombus on top of a parrallelogram. And then some other oddball shapes just to add to the confusion.
These are the "things' we must circumnavigate. Most of us, anyway. You, my friend, have been fortunate enough to have to simply get around the difficult circle. The rest of us....geometric pattern upon geometric patterns most unfamiliar to us....that we must learn how to define....then navigate without getting eaten by sharks waiting in the "blank/empty" spaces between the lines.\ That, my friend, is how it is for most of us. If you can rearrange these "lines" for us to make them into one contiunous circle, I'm sure we'd all be more than grateful indeed.
Michael, I do indeed think you are right in all you've said here. Except for this: I don't think it's a circle of life you've talked about. I think it's more like a trapezoid superimposted on an acute triangle, superimposed on a rhombus on top of a parrallelogram. And then some other oddball shapes just to add to the confusion.
These are the "things' we must circumnavigate. Most of us, anyway. You, my friend, have been fortunate enough to have to simply get around the difficult circle. The rest of us....geometric pattern upon geometric patterns most unfamiliar to us....that we must learn how to define....then navigate without getting eaten by sharks waiting in the "blank/empty" spaces between the lines.\ That, my friend, is how it is for most of us. If you can rearrange these "lines" for us to make them into one contiunous circle, I'm sure we'd all be more than grateful indeed.
