Ready to Do things the right way!

Mystro_the_meta... - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 3:27am

Spend a moment or two reflection on these two questions: What could you possibly lose by treating each day as a gift with childlike wonder? What might you gain?

all thoughts are welcome!

You lose nothing, therefore gain all that is offered in life.
As you worry about things to come or yet have not recieved, you waste the 'present; by throwing it all away to foolish ambitions...

ha ha beat that!

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Trenton Tye - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 2:13pm

Oh boy, an optomist! Check over with Rob and Bill, they may have some have some left. We are out in South Georgia, Floridians came up and carted if off....

Trenton Tye
Purgatory Ironworks

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what you have forgotten

visitor - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 7:57pm

being ready to move forward does not mean you must forget what you have done.nor does it mean to leave those promised dear behind

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great questions

B.J. Severtson - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 9:15pm

Would you like fries with that? Please pull forward....Brad

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Re:

Mystro_the_meta... - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 1:08pm

For some reason this visitor's comments makes me think the question that is proposed was not answered because the person just wanted to say how they feel...

please answer the question?

mystro*

No Metal left behind, once was lost but now is all welded together!

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Mystro, You must be an

visitor - Friday, January 4, 2008 - 9:26pm

Mystro,

You must be an islander...

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RE:

Mystro_the_meta... - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 1:05pm

some one asked if I am an Islander, well I am from Rhode Island but I don't think that counts...

mystro)

No Metal left behind, once was lost but now is all welded together!

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Mix Match

Frank Castiglione - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 3:01pm

MTM,
I do treat each day as a gift, each night before sleeping too. I don't always do it with child like wonder though.Children have simple innocent minds. I don't have a simple innocent mind. The wonder I see is complex and related to every past moment. I don't dwell on the past, its just part of my soul. I try to make all past a stepping stone though, and not a ball and chain.I contemplate the future as I know I should. Fail to plan and you plan to fail.What me worry? Even Jesus stated that to worry is a waste; He had a better handle on life than any one else I've read so far.
There is always something to gain from our actions.To wonder as a child is OK. A human brain is unfinished until nearly two decades.As I ponder the thoughts I had as a child, I realize that I couldn't think like I do now because of this incompleteness.
Today we see the signs of youth that lack mentoring by responsible adults.No concern about the consequence of their actions.Yet worrying is an overwhelming partner to this border-less self consumed lifestyle.Worrying, like shame is a feeling.
Ambition is not wrong. We cannot control the way life unfolds. However we certainly can massage the outcome to mankind's favor.
As Bucky Fuller suggests, we are simply disrupting the entropic inevitability of our universe by adding some kind of order.If wonder inspires agape ,whether as a child or not,then it truly is the perspective to seek.
Peace eh?
Frank

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Thats what I am looking

Mystro_the_meta... - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 3:45pm

Thats what I am looking for...

the happiness and innocence of childlike thinking is where we become disconnected with the true meaning of life which to enjoy every moment given, for the past is just a toy taken away, and the future is the promise of candy that has not been fufilled.

Having a child has taught me two vauleable lessons:

do not promise anything to a child unless you are 100% sure you can provide that, in turn they have expectations that can not be passified for the sake of them not asking more then once. kids need to be encouraged to share and enjoy material possesions, so they learn to accept the fact of when they get old enough they have to get it for them selves, and it won't be easy unless they really desire and work hard to reap the rewards. When you promise and child something so they stop asking they hold that which you offer dearly and when they do not recieve what they wait for they grow impatient and act outwardly in a negative manner. basicly let them eat cake!

when they ask you to play with them, no excuse is accepted.
saying that you are 'tired' or 'you just got home and want to relax' is what they will say to you when you want them to do something. children develop the personalites from thier parents, so don't think it ok to shoo them away for your own personal needs. any time my son asked me to play with him no matter what I get down on the floor and play, be it wresting, toy cars, lego's, drawing with crayons, puzzles, my favorite "hide and seek" and even what's that on your face, where we gently pretend to pull of each others face and body parts and say "look at me, now I have a nose like my dad..."

my son always asked me why I like to play with him and i respond 'I was a litte boy once just like you and all i wanted was for someone to play with me'

the smile on his face is the most important thing in my life and seeing that makes me feel that all of the wrong or bad I have done in my life was worth living to this moment now.

Tommorow our seed will grow and dedication is what they need today.

No Metal left behind, once was lost but now is all welded together!

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Fries then. ok

B.J. Severtson - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - 5:37pm

I got the feeling that you didn't really want to read answers to your questions. But you did want to make a statement. So "Did you want fries with that?" gave you the opportunity to make your statement. That's a pleasant picture you paint of the child playing with his parent. As a parent I received an education on childlike wonder from my children. They often got to observe my creative efforts and an adult sense of wonder in action. My goal was to seek wisdom, to acquire an understanding beyond the obvious, to realise interrelationships. To parent. It's important to be a keeper of promises. My pleasures are now with the grand children. All of it shows up in my art...What Jamaican? Pull forward, please. Brad

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