Plain and Simple
It’s been a long weekend for me…one where my lack of consistency is seriously being called into question….I had not realized that some of my friends were actually reading my blog…I got two calls and a few emails noting their disappointment and concern of no entries since last week Thursday. Actually, the emails were really encouragements for me to keep it up because they didn’t realize I was so deep…hence you know I’m thinking they’re thinking I’m shallow!
I’m primed now to take on blogsphere and for a little inspiration -- I’m pouring my first glass right now of one of Chateau Élan’s Merlot offerings I brought back with me from Atlanta. Really…it’s just plain and simple…truth is…. I hit a road block and didn’t feel like writing. So many happenings in so many moments in those three days– work, friends, more than one libation --- a party and the common cold took its toll.
I just finished an IM conversation with a friend whom I met a year and half ago….we come from different cultures…different countries with an eighteen year age span between us…but it’s like we’re soul mates….In life we meet good people….damn good people and we don’t recognize it….people who tell you straight up with no bullshit…things that need to be said no matter how harsh or insensitive it may seem at the time…you know they care and got your back (umm-just literally!)…No matter the situation or circumstance.
I cherish his friendship … my--allusions and/or delusions—with Six Degrees were put into perspective because of him….he challenged me to internalized deeply in order to reacquaint me with me….he writes a blog of his own….and sent me to his page one day….to help me in my growth of continual rehabilitation in finding me back…the entry on his page read like this:
A Glass of Water:
A student asked his teacher if it was possible to retain peace and self- command regardless of what happens to us in the exterior world. How is it possible?
The teacher took a glass of water and poured it into a nearby vase, then poured the water from a vase into a cup, and finally poured the water into a jar. The teacher explained, “This water has found itself in a glass, a vase, a cup and a jar, all of different shapes and sizes. Regardless of its exterior container, the water retained its original nature; a container had no effect on it whatever. So it is with you. Realize your true and original nature. With this realization you will retain peace and self-command wherever you may find yourself.”
This shit is so simplistic and yet so real that it blew me away….it takes a true friend to know when…to do when…to say when….life is just plain and simple but yet we as individuals complicate it….hopefully he’s having a libation as I raise my glass to him…my Lilburn friend…Thanks…
I’m primed now to take on blogsphere and for a little inspiration -- I’m pouring my first glass right now of one of Chateau Élan’s Merlot offerings I brought back with me from Atlanta. Really…it’s just plain and simple…truth is…. I hit a road block and didn’t feel like writing. So many happenings in so many moments in those three days– work, friends, more than one libation --- a party and the common cold took its toll.
I just finished an IM conversation with a friend whom I met a year and half ago….we come from different cultures…different countries with an eighteen year age span between us…but it’s like we’re soul mates….In life we meet good people….damn good people and we don’t recognize it….people who tell you straight up with no bullshit…things that need to be said no matter how harsh or insensitive it may seem at the time…you know they care and got your back (umm-just literally!)…No matter the situation or circumstance.
I cherish his friendship … my--allusions and/or delusions—with Six Degrees were put into perspective because of him….he challenged me to internalized deeply in order to reacquaint me with me….he writes a blog of his own….and sent me to his page one day….to help me in my growth of continual rehabilitation in finding me back…the entry on his page read like this:
A Glass of Water:
A student asked his teacher if it was possible to retain peace and self- command regardless of what happens to us in the exterior world. How is it possible?
The teacher took a glass of water and poured it into a nearby vase, then poured the water from a vase into a cup, and finally poured the water into a jar. The teacher explained, “This water has found itself in a glass, a vase, a cup and a jar, all of different shapes and sizes. Regardless of its exterior container, the water retained its original nature; a container had no effect on it whatever. So it is with you. Realize your true and original nature. With this realization you will retain peace and self-command wherever you may find yourself.”
This shit is so simplistic and yet so real that it blew me away….it takes a true friend to know when…to do when…to say when….life is just plain and simple but yet we as individuals complicate it….hopefully he’s having a libation as I raise my glass to him…my Lilburn friend…Thanks…
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