Thoughts… just thoughts
How are you doing? – I’m still doing okay… yep okay
If you can look at all those you admire; be proud of your friends and family, look up to them, what they have and their achievements and still want to be you and no one else, you’re doing okay.
You never know how unexpected the unexpected is till it hits you – the highs and lows of life are there for the taking.
Live every minute of every day, fill every second and rest contented with good memories that last an eternity.
Chris Gorse 2011
Maya Angelou said this when interviewed by Oprah April 2011
‘I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.’
‘I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.’
‘I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.’
‘I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life.’
‘I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.’
‘I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back…’
‘I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.’
‘I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.’
‘I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug or just a friendly pat on the back…’
‘I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.’
‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Favourite quotes:
“Look is when preparation meets opportunity.”
Anonymous
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon it’s that we wait for it to begin.”
Anonymous
“Perseverance, positive attitude and good social attitude – and more perserverance…”
Chris Gorse 2009
“Expecting life to treat you well because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
Shari R Barr
“I’ve not always rated the things that I’ve learnt but, I’ve never under estimated the importance of learning.”
Chris Gorse 2010
“For a long time it felt like life was just about to begin – – real life. But there was always an obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, some time to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawn on me that these obstacles were may life”. Alfed D Souza
“It’s not the length of life but the depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
“Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes on worrying about of are of no importance whatsoever…”
Isak Dinesen
“Meet adversity with friends.”
Chris Gorse 2009
Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son
Today –
Today is like no other,
It’s just arrived and about to pass,
its cant be planned for just experienced;
it never turns out quite as expected,
something is different, special, sad, happy unique,
while it can be enjoyed by others, the experience is yours alone.
Friday – 8th April 2011 – like most days, I woke up with my head spinning, a 100 things to do, and like most days the planned things got pushed to one side. The Sun shone, like a summers day and life was okay. Chris Gorse
Live each day
My wife told me to live each day…
She said this knowing she was going to die,
Knowing that whatever she said it would stay with me for the rest of my life,
I search for the answer, knowing that real meaning was wrapped up in that sentence,
Was it not to dwell on the past, not to hang on to what I’d lost or just to live the way I’d always done? With fun, laughter, friends and ambition.
I’ll never know she… didn’t have the answer either…
Just point yourself in the right direction and get what you can out of life.
Cancer at 30 died at 35, lived more than most people do in two life times, but still wanted more.
“live each day x”
Is life too short or too long?
Life is too short…
One day I will look back on my life and know if life was too short or too long, know whether I’ve made the right decisions, right friends and treated those that I happen to meet with the right response and attitude. Until that day I’ve got a lot to learn, embrace and discover.
I watched my wife worry about dying, the pain she would have to face and the battles that living with cancer would bring. If she had known what she was about to encounter she would have chosen to end her life, I’m sure. But, as I watched her battle through her many operations, different chemo therapy treatments and radio therapy, she wanted nothing more than to draw an extra breath and share a smile with those she loved. Ruth died just 35 years of age and lived a fully packed 5 years with cancer.
My father decided life was too much and chose to end his pain. A brave man.
One day I will know if my life has been too long or too short. Until then I’ll fill it and see what happens.
Live each day like it may end tomorrow.
Chris 2011
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