Can you sum up your life in a sentence?
“What a strange ride this has been,” would have to be the sentence I would use to sum up my life.
What would you say about yours?
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Almost the same thought: “What a long, strange trip it’s been” to quote the Dead!
On the whole, I am happy.
65 years. That went by in a blink. – Meet Joe Black
It’s been more exciting than I ever imagined!
It’s been like doing Cats’ Cradle without rules and too short a string.
It’s been 14,900 days of poor decisions, a feeling that I am waiting for something, and a perpetual acting delusion that I am permanent.
I’m just passing through on my way to total oblivion.
Turns it’s all about love.
Flickering moments of happiness in a sea of regret.
Short but sweet, has a while to go yet.
Mr. Toad has nothing on my wild ride.
Life is like a box of chocolates, and I brought extra insulin!
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. ©Ashleigh Brilliant
@YARNLADY Don’t call trying to ask what the objects of the game are, figuring those out are the object of the game. -The Game
To be sure of hitting your target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. ©Ashleigh Brilliant
If we don’t change directions soon, we will get to where we are going.
“I wasted time and now doth time waste me….” (Shakespeare) He pretty much wraps it up for me!
It is only when you have reached you know why you’re where you are.
For 99 years in the woods shes been and she still goes down to the old goose pen
A series of unexpected adventures.
What I assumed was mediocrity has been good fortune.
Trying to cram in as much fun as possible between the moments of birth and death.
This is not so much summing up my life as my life philosophy, and I cannot say it better than Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom”
bkcunningham I love that song. Check this version out, it’s by a band called Crooked Still.
@Earthgirl, I love her voice and the upbeat tempo. I have heard a recording of an old mountain preacher singing that song at a funeral in a very similar fashion. It will give you goosebumps. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.
A blinded hawk can still kick your ass.
@bkcunningham Your welcome. I have seen Crooked Still several times in small venues. They’re great and Aiofe O’Donovan has an angelic voice similar to Alison Krauss. I still miss the cellist that you hear on that recording, Rashad Eggleston. He’s insane and crazy and billiant!!! but sadly, no longer with the band
IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson
“I came, I saw, I con…”
I’m still working on the last part.
@Earthgirl & @bkcunningham Here’s the original spiritual version of “There Ain’t no Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down” by Claude Ely circa 1946.
Don’t feed the Raccoon’s.
I’m still trying to figure it out
Always a struggler and fighter with bold determination and blind defiance while trying to do good not harm.
Despite the rocky moments, it is lovely.
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
A beautiful, challenging and very worthwhile adventure.
Thank you @ETpro. Brother Ely could get down. Nice toe tapping music to wakeup to.
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.—David Attenborough
@janbb – “I’m going to hell in a bucket, but at least I’m enjoying the ride…!”, or, “Nothing left to do, but smile, smile, smile…”
hmmm….I guess….‘Whats next?’
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