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For Joey
19:44 Mar 29 2017
Times Read: 695
These words are the most precious gift to pass on to a child.
"I hope you...
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep. I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him. I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn you hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you--tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
PRIVATE ENTRY
14:27 Mar 28 2017
Times Read: 700
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Thoughts14:23 Mar 28 2017
Times Read: 704
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” ― Henry Rollins
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” ― Lao Tzu
“... attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as s human being.”
― Rollo May
"It is the wonderful paradox,” he continued, “that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others."
— David Michie
“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”― Garth Stein
“Keep Going
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren
“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
― C. JoyBell C.
"i see the sky as beautiful,
Regardless of its shine
Because I wake each day grateful,
That I get another chance to be alive."
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