Thursday, March 28, 2013

And So It Goes

Ancient Direction Stone North South East West
 
No matter how you chart your course
Navigate your life
Live your days
At some point
At some time
You'll hurt someone
Disappoint someone
Leave someone feeling let down or betrayed....
 
The best choice for you
May feel like the worst choice to them
 
Opinions
Clash
Collide
Conflict
Confound
 
Needs
Are so very individual
Unique
Variable
Unexplainable
Unfathomable
To anyone but the person feeling them, living them
Seeking to fulfill them
 
And so it goes....
 
To choose for the needs of others?
Or for your heart?
No right, no wrong
 
Lots of guilt
Sometimes anger
 
Still the dance goes on...
Sometimes a waltz in 4/4 time
Sometimes to a syncopated (and fractured) beat
 
It's best to strive to see the other shore
No matter which side you currently stand upon
 
And at the end of each day if you can say
You caused no intentional harm
Even while doing what you knew you had to do
For your own self
Then, I suspect
Fate and Karma
Will understand
 
It's getting other humans to do the same
To agree to disagree
To set aside their indignation
At your refusal of their version of 'right'
That presents the
Difficulty
And
Challenge
 
And so it goes.....

4 comments:

The Weaver of Grass said...

Interesting. I think most of us strive not to hurt, not to interfere etc. (especially in the lives of our children) - but we always will make mistakes - and live to regret them. Our parent smade them with us, and we try not to do the same - we might succeed there but there will be other mistakes to take their place. We can only do our best.

gracie said...

interesting thoughts....

Austan said...

I wish the whole world would aspire to your way of thinking.

Mental P Mama said...

Beautiful.