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Nov 10, 2017 12:08:27 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 12:08:27 GMT 1
Thanks mate, for sitting at the bar with your pal, and making it difficult for me to get to the bar, and even attract the barmaid's attention. I see there's lots of tables and chairs away from the bar, but understand that you'd rather sit where you are... I also enjoy overhearing the banality of the conversation that you have on your mobile, whilst sat at the bar. All of these things I say most insincerely....
Thanks, big burley bloke in the pub for first standing close to me, when there's plenty of room over there in the corner, then, wrapped up in conversation with your drinking chums, unconsciously backing into me, taking more space, and subconsciously pushing me out of the way. I just know that you don't mean to, it's just that you're oblivious to everyone else....
Gratitude goes out to the car drivers who tailgate the car in front, and for whom the 30 mph speed limit doesn't apply. Pedestrians wishing to cross the road have a hard job finding a space between the cars, and if they do, must contend with the next car bearing down on them, desperate to fill the gap...
No-one (usually), sets out to p*ss someone else off - although there appears to be a few messed-up individuals who do - but everyone (IMO) routinely does, by accident, unaware that they're doing it.....
Such is the consuming sense of self it surprises me that more people don't go to Church. Contrary to what people say Church is not about a Divine Being, nor about the Church telling people what's good for them. It's about you. Your life. You. Surely that ought to appeal to the self-absorbed....
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Nov 19, 2017 11:41:09 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2017 11:41:09 GMT 1
Here's another slice of life, from which you can take something, or trash it, in one ear and out the other, according to your pre-disposition. There exists a misunderstanding between us if you think that I have any other motive for posting. You decide to take from it, or to trash...
At my nearest service station, which happens also to be my nearest shop, where as a sad-act singleton I go for basic supplies, bread, milk, etc, an Eastern European works, an EU immigrant, a Brexit-fearing human being...
Twelve months ago he could barely utter a word of English. Now he's fluent. Every time that I go there I make a point of saying something, clearly, slowly, in good English so that he may be even more fluent. And he salutes me for doing so...
He has colleagues, also Eastern Europeans, who are sometimes deployed to work on the till, and serve the Public. They too use language, pretty language, which they must've got from me, via their colleague.....
'Thank You for your help', said one of them today. He could've only been referring to the English, as in no other way could've I helped....
'Thank you for saying so' is what I felt, You validate me by saying so. You give me a sense of self-worth, when I have occasion enough to doubt what worth I am.....
With a ripple effect Goodwill touches not just one, but Everyone. And it all comes back at you. What's in it for me? Everything.
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Dec 2, 2017 12:03:04 GMT 1
Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2017 12:03:04 GMT 1
So. Here we go again, but not quite with the same ceaseless striving to make sense of the World....
These days, when I eat, I pause and think of The Little Syrian Beggar Boy. When I read a book, I put it down, and stare into space.... When I walk the dog my mind wanders towards Something Else.....
The seconds that I spent with that little boy will abide with me always. Your matted hair, your tiny under-nourished body, your dirty over-sized shirt - sure they grabbed my attention, but your essence grabbed it more. You bless-ed, precious little thing.
And to receive a blown kiss from your mother makes me shudder to think of it.... Little did you know that I'd already got boozed up by way of 'aperitif' - we need an 'aperitif' to sharpen our appetites, doesn't hunger do that? Little did you know that I was on my way to more booze, and to eat whatever I liked, as much as I liked, regardless of cost. I'm not worthy of your love. But I'm humbled by your example.
So it was my Epiphany - my sudden grasp of Reality - and I've spent 60 years feeling certain that it was out there somewhere, but only recently, by chance encounter, have I found it...
So I'm done. Good-bye. No more ceaseless striving. I'll never forget you Little Syrian Beggar Boy. Thank you.
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Dec 28, 2018 11:36:16 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Dec 28, 2018 11:36:16 GMT 1
I never thought that I would re-visit this thread..
I'd said all that I wanted to say, ten times over....
I've wanted to share my views, and to invite you to reflect on them too. So that you reach your own conclusions, not necessarily mine....
F****k I've done my best before I die. To urge you to be as big as you can be. For yourself. And for everyone else...
God bless you if you've had even an inkling of where I'm coming from. God bless you if you haven't
God bless you.
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Dec 30, 2018 20:54:30 GMT 1
Post by lib on Dec 30, 2018 20:54:30 GMT 1
Have a good new year, and power to ones cogitating muscle.
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Jan 7, 2019 12:03:54 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Jan 7, 2019 12:03:54 GMT 1
Thanks,lib
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Nov 12, 2020 9:38:42 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Nov 12, 2020 9:38:42 GMT 1
It's been a long time since I received your good wishes, lib, and since I politely thanked you for them...
It's occurred to me that I didn't return your good wishes, that I just took them, thanked you for them, and failed to return them. I was too wrapped up in myself at the time to think of you enough.
I'm putting that wrong right now. Better late than never. I wish you well. And I'll try harder never to forget to do it.
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Dec 25, 2020 12:20:48 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Dec 25, 2020 12:20:48 GMT 1
OK. So I keep coming back with my opinions. I'm trying to stop giving my opinions. It's time to shut up.
But my opinions don't die because I shut up. They don't go away because I cease to articulate them.
So I'm gonna keep going. I'll stop articulating them when I die. You've got plenty of time to be free of them, after then.
To sum up I say go with God. Be as big as you can be. Give.
Oh, and God Bless You.
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Oct 2, 2021 14:03:05 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Oct 2, 2021 14:03:05 GMT 1
What is wrong with you people?
I just keep posting, but you don't give a fu***k.....
I don't believe you. And you can't be ars**d to express your feelings...
Go on. Go live your own lie. Don't give a fu***k. But you won't stop me me from urging you to give a fu**k.
For You. Please, I beg you, give a fu**k. For You.
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Oct 10, 2021 17:34:10 GMT 1
Post by annon101 on Oct 10, 2021 17:34:10 GMT 1
In this post I ain't gunna b***tch about nothing.
Instead I'd like to introduce you to a guy, assuming that you don't already know him.....
Or, rather, I'd like to introduce you to a guy, who, in his day, had something to say. And who said it well. In few words.
Far better (IMO) than I've ever said, or ever could....
This is what he said:-
"Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy."
St Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226 A.D.)
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