New Day Dawning
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison
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Very cryptic, very thought provoking.
I have always known what I wanted throughout the various decades of my life.
I am not at all sure that what I wanted was right for me, but I always felt I knew precisely what I was doing and where I was going, sufficiently not to be disturbed by the many obstacles thrown in my path.
However, I have been left with some quite severe consequences of following what I perceived as my destiny.
I guess life is easy for some, not so easy for others. Life, is itself, a dilemma.
What is it that you are wanting? Do you know, or do you still wonder?
Do you think it is possible to get what you want? I find that when one can't find a solution, life takes a twist that makes some of those decisions for us.
I wonder how it will be for you?
katyzzz
beautiful and thought provoking! I've always wanted to be someone else, I suppose to escape the pain on my life...
But, strangely, I always come back to "ME"! lol
Great post!
Take care,
Nick
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This post reminds me that we do not need others to complete us. We have all it takes within us. We complete ourselves.
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"A new day is dawning/New crews are spawning/Rival gangs warring/Blood steadily pouring/ The streets is deep son, everyday is like a re-run/ So I reach out and try to teach one..." Streetlife
A decade-old rap thats stayed in my head all these years. Keeps me on the lookout...
Opto
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*grin* we are indeed operating of different ends of the spectrum... I have never really known what I truly wanted... I`m a drifter really. I get very bored very quickly.
I loved this quote because it really sums up where I have been for a few years now... not out of choice but out of necessity... and stagnated... now I can carry on!
In answer to your questions... I`m not sure what I want, it is something that constantly changes for me... I`m a kinda live for the moment person... sponteneity is not always a good thing! As for getting what you want... yes I do 100% believe that you can get whatever you want... if you know what it is you want that is.... if I want something and I know I want it I can be very determined and won`t stop until it has been achieved... I don`t do failure!
ash
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I used to get REALLY frustrated (and I wont lie I still do but not to such a huge extent anymore) by things going constantly wrong... I try to embrace them now for the lessons that they carry... they make us stronger people???
I hope things get better for you Nick
ash
Australian Traveller
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Your words are so very true... at the end of the day we are the only ones who know ourselves best (yikes!) and the only ones we can rely on... so we need to complete ourselves ... these are very difficult lessons to learn huh?!
ash
Australian Traveller
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Quote away brother, quote away! This is indeed a good lesson... I`m not really into rap music, although I may listen to it now and again... the lyrics are very real not so? Tell real stories about real people and don`t paint the world pretty all the time...
life is grand!
ash
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this is a nice passage to remind ourselves in those times.
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i can so relate to that quote... guess not everyone is born with that realization, Ralph..
so many wish themselves away on a daily basis, wishing they were this or that person, have that persons lifestyle, looked like him/her etc.. some i can understand why, especially those who are born into a hard life, and wish for more opportunity, fair enough, but those who have so much already, and want so much more? .. just seems covetous.. oooh big word for halfy past midnight...
love and hugs to you Ash,
~Lily
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ahhhh isn`t it just? I am amazed by people who 'just know' - if I could get that I would be A for Away.
Big words so late into the wee hours? AND during the weekend? I`m impressed! It is though - I don`t think I would ever want more of anything materialistic just more something a little peaceful would be a nice change grin
we should go into writing that Life manual that so many people want... hhmmmm if only we knew what to write
loven hugs to ya too
ash