Paulo Coelho
Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.
(The Alchemist)
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Dear Thelma,
I visit the blog daily but I usually read and reflect. I take a subject, a quote etc. and research and it leads me where I have to go that moment in time. I am not a blogger … sometimes I will post..I started reading the blog in the early days of its creation…many have come and gone…some of my favorites hardly post anymore…I just hope they are still here in the background just like I am most of the time….
With loving kindness
Satora
Oh yes, dear Satora, now I remembered me asking again where you come from.. It is a long time now, we have not got any comments from you.
LOVE,
Thelma
I’d have to say, very nice company here, indeed.
Thelma and Paul from Austria: about the agent 000 – I don’t know it, so sadly, I don’t get the joke. :(
And I have come to an understanding yet again – to talk about the same topic, there are so many ways. And it’s wonderful, really, to look something from so many different aspects. It will paint the picture even more whole and detailed, more knowledge in it.
Thanks again, all of You! :)
Love from Estonia,
L.L
Dear Thelma,
our relation is that we both live on islands in the Mediterranean Sea. I live on Crete … but I am not Greek … but does it really matter what kind of passports we have? ..I will not be in Paris but I wish you all the best …Καλο ταξιδι και να περασεις καλα….
With loving kindness,
Satora
Dear Satora, so You know agent ….000 and you are Greek, I had a feeling always, reading your comments,that we are … relatives!! ;]Πολλά φιλάκια και σε σένα, καλή μου Μαγισσούλλα!! Πού κατοικείς και θα είσαι στο πάρτυ στο Παρίσι?? Αν ναι, θα συναντηθούμε.
LOVE,
Thelma
Dear Thelma: does agent 000 (Veggos) ever stop running?… he is impossible to stop just like the river of life. Πολλα φιλáκια καλη μου μαγισσα …. Satora
Cool,lovely Pisces is here!The best poet ever.
:)
sometimes,,, but when one loosees his or her hope ,,, that river of life get dry and,,, it all depends on the way we see and feel our nature of the river,,, rivers who get the essential sources,, the oxigen , the love the moving on and on with the universe…. those rivers r never going to stop theis life’s flow!!
It’s impossible, ’cause when it happens the water will change from being pure to being dirty. In other words, your soul requires the space what gives you that opportunity to grow.
kisses
Mony
Thank you all. It is a nice … company here!!
Well, dear/est Paul from Austria, agent 000 was into … good form today!
Dear Evelina nice music..
Dear Liina.L, agent 007 was transformed into a Greek comedy to Θ.Β. [Thanasis Veggos] the agent …000. ;]
Dear Savita Vega you are very daring. The ‘let it go’ is the secret of life, I think. Good or bad..
LOVE,
Thelma
sometimes?
that’s what makes life exciting….
Eveliina – what a beautiful song: thanks for sharing that with us!
Savita, thanks for the wonderful story and the posting overall.
Sometimes if we live at a certain place in the worlt, it can make You see things a bit differently from someone who is talking about the same thing, but lives somewhere else.
I live in Estonia. Basically we don’t have these enormous rivers that are so widely expanded as some bigger rivers in the world. Estonia is actually quite plain in most areas of nature. We don’t have any “spectacular” places if we compare it to some other places in the world. But we do have our own, and what we have, is still beautiful – as nature always is.
That doesn’t mean, that I didn’t know that there are all these big rivers that make webs between them and then flow in a sea, or a bigger water base. I knew it, but I concentrated on what I see every day – an Estonian river. :)
So thank You for making me see, that life is complex! So, on my previous post I symbolically concidered ‘life’ as a plain, common river from Estonia, that doesn’t expand. But if I see it from Your point of view, I would say, that You can build that dam to one, or the various rivers from the whole “system of rivers”, but the water indeed has to flow somewhere… so even if we put the barriers down, at some point it will overflow and find it’s own way, if the old way is taken.
Thanks!
It’s funny, now than I think about it, how we need to communicate, read and study, to understand more, know more and sometimes try to get out of our “common situation”. Because that common situation may build the walls… ;)
Go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClIe1RMdF0
and listen
or try youtube for
Bella’s Lullaby – River Flows In You – Yiruma
Thank you
I do agree, Thelma!
All you can do is just wade in and go for a swim.
Rivers do change course, though, over time. I live in a land bounded by three rivers: The Trinity, the Neches and the Sabine. The longest is 700 miles long (1,125 km), the shortest, 400 (645 km). Together, their combined watersheds drain an area of almost 40,000 square miles (about 10,400,000 hectares) of land. Of course, feeding these three rivers and flowing into them, are a seemingly infinite number of creeks, branches and streams. If you look at an aerial map of this region, it looks like a medical illustration of the human circulatory system – a never ending network of tiny capillaries, leading into larger arteries or veins, and finally circulating into the Gulf of Mexico itself. When you look at an even more detailed topographical map, however, you notice something else: these “shadows” or long narrow indentations in the earth’s surface, a whole other set of squiggly lines, not depicting where the streams and creeks and rivers lie now, but indicating the courses they used to follow. And if you go into the river bottom, you often find these (especially in rainy season) filled with water. We call them sloughs. There is no flow to them, no transference of water. They are dead, cut off from the system. Yet they stand as testament to the fact that the river, broad and strong and swift, once flowed here, for here it left its mark, etched deep into the surface of the earth.
It is the same with all rivers – not just these three. In a sense, maybe it is as this with every life: our job is merely to jump in and swim. And if we simply persevere in our efforts to stay afloat, the river itself will alter its own course over time. One thing is certain – perhaps it is the only thing that is certain in life, aside from the fact that once we are born, we will one day die – it is certain that, whatever situation of circumstance we find ourselves in, either good or bad, it will change over time. Nothing lasts. Our job is to adapt and adjust – to stay afloat – and maybe, just maybe (perhaps even primarily) to splash and laugh and have fun, a bit.
I wonder if anyone here on this blog has ever tried to cling to a jammed-up log in the middle of a flooded river. I have. Once as an impetuous and rather foolish teenager, I decided to swim the river in flood. I wasn’t alone. There was a whole group of us. But once you jump into a flooded river, it doesn’t matter who jumped in with you – you are alone. Well, I got to the middle, where there was a jammed-up tree, its top sticking half way up out of the water, and there I decided I had had enough of that current. I was going to stop the flow of that river! So, I grabbed hold. Well, all I can say is, if you want to get beaten up, that’s is a sure way to do it. The current didn’t slow, the flow didn’t cease – the river didn’t care. It merely jerked me and slung me about like a rag-doll, bruising me and beating me on the very limbs I thought to save me. Finally, having no other choice, I let go. The current took me up again, and then I realized, with a sudden flash of insight, that the swimming was actually much easier than the attempt at clinging. The swift current, which actually buoyed me up, was my friend and not my enemy.
Who do You mean by agent 000 ? Hehe… :D
And sometimes I just wish I could ,just once ,change the destiny…
Hehe… Thelma, good thoughts.
But I think that the possibility of stopping the river of life can be done. Although it depend’s on a river – how powerful it and its flowing of the water is.
If it’s a lightly smaller river, You can build a dam, to stop the river from moving. Although the dam can start to wear down at some point – then You’d have to reconstruct it. But it is basically possible. But if the current is too strong, and too powerful, then it’d be impossible. Or if the river is just too wide for the dam building.
;)
Not SOMETIMES but ALWAYS!
LOVE,
Thelma