~ Failure ~

Failure

It’s only a word.

But it carries with it so much pain

and so little concern

so much frustration

and so little respect,

so much stress and so little

understanding

that people spend their lives

running through their days

in the hope of avoiding the long arm

of this little word.

To test our vision, you must risk

failure.

To temper your ego, you must attempt

the impossible.

To tell your story, you must

take a chance.

To see beyond the horizon, you must

spread your wings.

To be all you can be, you must

stretch, flex, try, and go beyond

your proven limits.

To bridge the silence, you must risk

rejection.

To advance into the unknown, you must

risk the peril of all your

previous beliefs and emotions

that feel so secure.

Failure is not negative. It is a teacher.

It molds, refines, and polishes you

so that one day your light will

shine for all to see.

It isn’t the failure you experience

that will determine your destiny,

but your next step and then the next

that will tell

the story of your life.

~ Jigsaw Puzzle ~

It seems that Life
Could be compared to a giant jigsaw puzzle
With each person like each piece
Having a place where they fit perfectly
Yet so many in there need to belong
Grab the first place they come to
Then try to make it fit

And because of this
They are never quite in harmony
With their adjoining pieces
Thus they never get to know
The way it was truly
Meant to be

~ For Once ~

Run your fingers through my soul

For once

Just once

Feel exactly what I feel

Believe what I believe

Perceive as I perceive

Look

Examine

and for once

Just once

Understand

~ The Root of Arguments ~

What exactly is an argument?

How does an argument begin?

I know for sure it takes two people

For a conversation to have a disagreeable end.

It’s all about two individuals’ emotions

And their different opinions, it seems

One believes one thing, the other another,

Debating angry words in irritated steam.

It’s also about an individual’s perception

How one person interprets what another says

If a sensitive button is unintentionally pushed

Temperaments can flare up for many days.

Some people are more sensitive than others

Their worlds revolving around the egotistic “I”

They are prepared to debate every opinion

Until the peace-maker lets the conversation die.

Can we keep opinions out of conversation? Should we?

Or is it a personal way of expressing who we are?

We know that trying to change another’s opinion

Will create another chaos.

People’s knowledge is nurtured with opinions they form

Which changes with increasing knowledge gained each day

Opinions are peoples’ base for scientific hypotheses

Conducting mental experiments to process change

Forming opinions daily equal to individual knowledge

Learning and growing and revising old opinions in exchange.

If you choose to debate another’s opinion

You not only debate the thought, but also their plane of intelligence

And you might as well be telling them outright

Their mental capacity is sadly dense.

Could it be they are smarter than you

And you haven’t caught up with them yet?

Or, if you are smarter than they are

Then they haven’t caught up with you yet?

Neither! No one is ever on an equal mental plane

With another human being’s opinions

Since opinions furnish a map or framework

Of how far one has come in their mental pursuits.

Individual thinking, beliefs, and formed perceptions

Are what makes each of us different and unique.

“I think”, one of the most common terms we know,

Spells out who we are and all that we seek.

So, when you find yourself disagreeing with anyone

You’re never going to win an argument then

By disrespecting the other person’s right

To share who they are through their opinion.