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Without courage.
Wisdom bears no fruit..


Hope all of the Cs blog community and other members are doing well.

Yet another Veteran's Day, as it's known in the US of A, or Remembrance Day as it's revered in Canada, has arrived.
Originally the day was designed to celebrate and remember the fallen soldiers of the first world war. Later it became inclusive of the fallen from all wars, and today venerates all who fought or were involved in conflict for their countries en toto.
However, please understand something very important.
Some of us, perhaps many of us, do not wish to remember.
Some of us spend our lives trying to forget.

An overly experienced soldier told me many years ago, over a coffee in the mess, to wipe that grin off my face. He said you can go to war, but you can't ever go home.
I thought that he was pretty negative, because surely most came home. I saw and knew many who had come home over the years.
When I came home, I found out what he really meant.
Home was different, or perhaps, I had changed.
I could not forget what I had seen or the things that I had done.
We all react differently.
Some of us live under bridges.
Some of us drink ourselves to death.
Some of us take drugs to stop the pain.
Some of us dig in and try to do anything that we can do to fix the problems and pay back the debt that we feel that we've incurred by our actions.

Can we please end this madness?

May I come home now?:

It's often said, that life is what you make of it.

More than that, how we treat others is actually our legacy.
How we treat others affects them and
often how they also treat others.
These ripples of influence can have profound results over time.

Physics teaches us, that each action has a equal opposite reaction.
However, social sciences demonstrate chain reactions, often
recognized in trends or even mass hysteria.
Random acts of kindness can ultimately be magnified over time,
resulting in powerful positive change.
Sometimes karma even pays us and others back well.

Unfortunately, none of us gets out of life alive.

With all that as a preface, I'm asking you to give a little bit of yourself
in a good cause to help someone else.
It's really not too much to do. Indeed, it might bring YOU joy to do so.
Have you ever smiled at someone and saw them smile back ? :)
It's a good thing.

There's a little boy dying of a mitochondrial disease.
It is terminal. There is no cure. Eventually, it will kill him.
The disease robs him of his energy and one day his heart
and his life will succumb to it.
He might make it to his 15th birthday in August.
He has one wish. To receive 100,000 birthday cards before he dies.
Each one inspires him to hang in there a little it more.
His name is Jacob Priestley and his address is;
P.O. Box 855
Queen City, AZ 85142 USA

If you can find it within your heart and budget, send him a
birthday card with some kind words, like "thinking of you",
some encouraging words like, "Each day we wake up is a wonderful gift" a nice kids joke, or maybe a hand drawn
Star Wars scene, or something else a 14/15 year old boy might enjoy.

Here's the link for his story;




And here's the link for the song - 'Give a little bit'



Feel free to copy my blog and post it wherever you feel it might help.

Have a terrific Thursday !

Jim

I m thankful for my struggles.
Because without it I wouldn't have stumble across my strength.


Alex Elle

Hi to everyone

This is my first entry/attempt as a blogger, which makes me a newbie to this.

I'm proud of myself for taking this first baby step into the unknown world of blogging.

So i must sincerely apologise in advance, if I stumble along the way, as I'm a constant work in progress. Please bear with me on this point.

I will get better as my confidence in myself grows, and I know I will embrace this unknown and become more and more confident within myself, as I slowly learn to hopefully become a seasoned blogger. Fingers crossed. :-)

I will end here for now, because this is a start. I've had the courage to write this and for me, that in itself is a HUGE accomplishment for me.

This first blog is just an explanation to anyone out there who chooses to read my future stories, that I've taken this first step.

Wish me luck. I will be back.

Take care and more importantly, be safe.

There was a woman who won a contest to a an exotic island and she was so excited
as she told all her friends and family and in her excitement she wondered what will
she need to take and what she will have to pack up on her journey.
However, when she learned that some stranger was going to accompany her she felt kind of weird about this whole arrangement

Nevertheless she said to herself a chance of a lifetime to go to place she has never been was so exciting.
Now when she had met up with her partner who was going to accompany her she found he was tall dark and handsome type and seemed to a gentleman of such.

Yet there was something about him that made her feel on edge.
As she greeted him the first thing he said to her was she wont be needing all the crap she packed in her suitcase where she was going.

She kind of seemed perplexed to say what do you mean I have my clothes and things and a couple books and sunscreen and some things of value to me I want to take so what is wrong with that she thought. Well as part of the conditions of the trip she had to select only what she could carry in her heart and mind. She thought about what she was going to do with all her belongings in the suitcase and frustrated about her choice between the suitcase and what she valued within her heart and mind she was really in a bind of what she thought was important.

She thought of her life, her friends, her position in life and all the things she accumulated in her life as she was reasonably wealthy.
She just could not figure out what was of most valuable to her that she can think upon for the duration of her journey.

However, as it came close to the time that she was boarding her plane she sort of looked at this guy she did not know but, he seemed familiar and was rather upset with him as why he suggested to bring only what is important to her.

Nevertheless, she thought well she had her thoughts her feelings her perceptions ideas her passions reflections and dreams her memories of such and decided they were the most important things that mattered.

The man said to her that he was relieved because nobody wants your anger or hate or bitterness
because where you are going is to see my father in Heaven where you will dwell in paradise with me and him who sent for you.
All your experiences all the things you learned in this life is all anyone really has.
The material world is made to serve you but it will not be needed when it comes time to leave this world.

In recent months, I have discovered a pattern. I meet more bad people in my life than the good ones
The line in life between good and bad is, of course, very arbitrary.
Well, really: who can be considered good and who bad? What criteria might there be?
Most likely, this is all individual, but if any of us is deceived, betrayed, or does some kind of meanness to us, we will not dare to call such a person good. Or another question: Can a hypocrite be considered a good person?
My own statistics have shown that in my life I meet such people much more often than the sincere ones. It's sad to admit, but it's so as it is.
But why do people tend to choose these ways of interacting with others? What pushes them to do this?

I think the point is that people naturally tend to be selfish and think about their own interests and desires first. While a good person tries to maintain a balance between realizing his/ her desires and not going over other people’s heads, a bad person loses his sense of proportion and begins to not care about others, including friends and relatives.
Apparently, correcting your own shortcomings is more difficult than making your own mistakes. because you need to face the unpleasant truth about yourself, accept it, and this requires courage, a sincere desire to transform. But here the hypocrisy takes over
I'll leave the blog open for comments as it would be hypocritical not to let people, who do disagree with me, to speak up
I wish all of you to meet good people more often in your life

Truth is naked and ugly while Belief is well dressed and beautiful with make-up. Pure truth is tasteless hard and immutable because it is created by Nature whereas Belief is very tasty flexible and soft because we make it ourselves according to our wish.
The quality of Truth is that it is true for everyone and is acceptable by all. The drawback of Belief is that it varies from person to person and conflicts with each other. It is not wrong to live with one's own beliefs, but being bent on proving one's belief is the best and highest creates conflict among ourselves.
"You mind your own business and I'll mind mine, You kiss your own sweetheart and I'll kiss mine."

If we could create balance between Truth and Belief then our life and this world will become very beautiful.

From time to time here, where almost all posts are largely in good taste, if pointed, one does see the rare quite inappropriate blog. Profanity, too direct s*xual references, and so on. If I were a betting man, I'd bet on the drink. Sad, sad, sad. I should know. Aa.

Yourself:

Probably the most important redefinition of all- YOU. As you grow older, you will realize that you
will have to do a lot of things alone. You
will have to be your own hero and you
will have to pick yourself up sometimes.


You will redefine what you care about,
what you are chasing, what you are
believing in, what you are looking
forward to and what you want to
achieve. You will redefine how you see
yourself and how you want to be seen.


You will redefine how you want to
spend the rest of your life, and you will
redefine whether or not you want your
life to have meaning and if you want
the world to understand it...
#Jt