Some things don’t change much. I’ve realised over the last few weeks that a few of the instincts I had when I was sixteen are still with me, undiminished. Only now they’re overlaid with experience, a different sense of self, and an aversion to mirrors. Does that make them easier to deal with?
Surprisingly, no.
I think it’s time for bed. I’m tired of hearing lullabies.
you know, I was just thinking the other day that the bad selfish habits that kids have when they were young don't just go away with maturity. They are buried underneath it, and sometimes, those true colours flash through and you realised you haven't made a very big effort to fix up some of those old, bad habits.
There's this chinese saying that goes something like 'What you are when you are three, determines what you are when you will be 80'.
Lu: I'm happy to think that I've learned a lot this time round. But some things are just buried too deeply in the genes. Surgery can only go so deep.
Carms: Bad habits? I don't have any bad habits. Except... oh, and there's... er... and... OK. I confess. But I'm a bloody long way from 80 yet!
Maria: Well done. I find it useful to know at least one Shakespeare well. You can find a quotation for almost anything. I was going to quote 'My way of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf.' But then I decided I wasn't quite THAT miserable, or that self-indulgent. Ho, ho.
I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
All the permanent pictures and some of the posted ones on this blog are my copyright. Most of them, however, are placed with a picture library which holds the licensing rights. I don't, therefore, have the legal right to grant permission to use them.
An Inhabitant of the Hungry Ghost Realm
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
4 comments:
Life is built up on experiences and lessons- some that'll stick with us forever, and others we just never learn from.
you know, I was just thinking the other day that the bad selfish habits that kids have when they were young don't just go away with maturity. They are buried underneath it, and sometimes, those true colours flash through and you realised you haven't made a very big effort to fix up some of those old, bad habits.
There's this chinese saying that goes something like 'What you are when you are three, determines what you are when you will be 80'.
<3 macbeth :)
Lu: I'm happy to think that I've learned a lot this time round. But some things are just buried too deeply in the genes. Surgery can only go so deep.
Carms: Bad habits? I don't have any bad habits. Except... oh, and there's... er... and... OK. I confess. But I'm a bloody long way from 80 yet!
Maria: Well done. I find it useful to know at least one Shakespeare well. You can find a quotation for almost anything. I was going to quote 'My way of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf.' But then I decided I wasn't quite THAT miserable, or that self-indulgent. Ho, ho.
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