Rat Race

I was jogging the other day and noticed this man in front of me, about a quarter of a mile away. I could tell he was running a little slower and I thought, "Good, I shall try to catch up with him." I had about a mile to get to my path before taking a detour. So I started to run fast and faster... each and every block... I was gaining on him just a little bit more.

After a few minutes, I was only about a hundred yards behind - again I picked up the pace and pushed myself. You would have thought I was running the last lap of the London Olympic games. I was determined to catch up with him... and finally, I did! I caught up and passed him by. On the inside it felt so good... "Yes, I beat him!" Of course, he didn't even know we were racing! Then I realised that I had so focused on competing with him that I missed my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past my direction, now I must turn around and go all the way back to my own path.

Expectations

Expectation is Hope Alive. That means when you are not being expectant you are hopeless and when you are hopeless you are helpless. This is because whatever you don't expect, you can't experience. The door doesn't close on a man with expectations. Know that things expected have not happened does not mean they will not happen, delay is not denial.

A soldier loses a battle yet fights again.
A football team loses in matches yet plays again.
What about boxers? They have comebacks.

When you look back and it seems there's nothing good the year has brought for you, encourage yourself for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

TRAPPED

Our hearts are like the ocean blue enclosing life's ordeal in bubbles of reality – love, laughter, difficulties, worry, fear...

Faced with the latter more often than naught; we are left with one decision - which bubble stays but as difficult as it may seem, it's our choice to make.

Hope, like a bruised reed may seem frail but it's hard to kill as the presence of life is the currency for hope.

If you lose hope, you've lost everything as there's hope for a tree if cut down, at the scent of water, it will bud again.

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9 Secrets from a 73-Year Marriage

 After 73 years of marriage, 94-year old Barbara Cooper knows how to get through matrimony's rough patches. The author of Fall in Love for Life shares her hard-earned wisdom. By Holly Corbett, REDBOOK.

On making time to make love
"I don't understand couples who say they are too busy or too tired to sleep together. Unless they are building roads all day or running a multi-national corporation, I expect they have just lost sight of priorities. If you wish to stay connected and happy in your marriage, my advice to you is to never be too tired or too busy to feel love for your partner. When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love."

An Irrational Love of Reason

So the neuroscientists and daydreaming poets are in agreement: if you’re serious about solving problems and creating new things, stop thinking so hard and let your mind wander more freely.
But it’s not exactly a popular message, at least in modern Western society.
We take enormous pride in our intellectual accomplishments, and venerate those who are reputed to be ‘great thinkers’. Children are taught to ‘study hard’ – furrowed brows are praised and rewarded, while daydreamers are rebuked for staring out the window.
When applying ourselves to the pressing problems of business, science, education, politics and the environment, the unspoken assumption is that we need more thinking – not less.
If we consider someone’s point of view or behaviour unacceptable, we say they are ‘irrational’ or ‘unreasonable’.

My Love message to him.

Baby, you know I don't grab for something just because it looks appealing. My heart went for you so fast, honestly it left me breathless, now i realize somethings, some right things might come easy but they should never come without impact. Guy you are really special.

Look for a life and not a man...to all the ladies

Look for a life and not a man, because the man can go tomorrow but life continues. Live happy! Don't make him your happiness, nor your life, he is not a God. He can promise and fail.

What you want...what you get.

As one keep leaving, life becomes more interesting. For some it becomes more complicated. This is because some don't know what they really want, some know what they want but don't know how to go for it. Even though what we get is not what we want and what we want we don't get, there's need to make what we get what we want. Nevertheless don't quit working and walking towards that you want.

Sometimes...

We can get comfortable with people and that's what causes the problems. Most times you are happy until someone comes along and shows you something different.