Category: Short Form

Getting what we want
is not always
what we want.

What we want
is sometimes
to feel surprised.

And rarely will we feel surprise
by fixing
what we don’t want.

There are times
when we judge others
as wanting us
to sacrifice for them.

And yet,
when we ask
we may realize
that what they actually want
is what is best
for us.

We often worry
whether the choices we make
may be right
or wrong.

The problem is
that we will never know.

Not because we wont know
after time has past.

But because as time goes by
more things will happen
that we may credit
or blame for our choices.

Given this,
the challenge may not be
making the right
or wrong choices,
but rather
developing the responsibility,
as in our ability to respond,
to the ever so complex situations we face
having made the choice.

When we hit the limit
of our current maturaion
we will always confront
a paradox

And we may not even recognize the paradox
because we would have jumpted to judgment
to squash the discomfort
of paradox

There are those
with the ambition
to change
the world.

I just want
to make my mother
happy.

When I remember
the moments when I was
happy
I was not in pursuit
of happiness.

When I rememer
the moments when I were not happy
I was in pursuit
of happiness.

Gratitude
has somehow became
a panacea.

“Be grateful.”
some say.

“Be honest.”
I say in response.

If you don’t feel gratitude,
you don’t feel gratitude.

What you feel
is what you feel.