To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Thursday, February 13, 2020
 
I’m very conscious that I have not been posting as much in recent times...no excuses (work, work…!) but be patient, dear reader, ebbs and flows are a part of life :)

I chanced upon this really beautiful letter from John Steinbeck to his son with thoughts and advice about love. There is something about this letter that almost makes you feel the emotion that he describes as love in a sublime sort of way. I don’t know what it is. The last line of the letter “Nothing good gets away” appears frequently without its context in lists of popular quotations or elsewhere but when you read it as part of this letter you grasp its meaning even more deeply.

I guess it means if it’s meant to be it will be. If it’s not meant to be it wasn’t for you anyway. And if it wasn’t for you, it wasn’t good for you… nothing good passes you by… when I look back on my life there were many occasions when I felt that I had lost something precious or good… with the wisdom of hindsight I realise that what was good was what those experiences taught me… what was precious was what I discovered in myself… nothing good got away… it made me who I am…

posted by Sylvia D'souza at 4:42 am 1 comments
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