Seven Realities

Seven Realities

MY REASONING:
(1.) I had survived on practically "zero" for nearly seventy-five years. I could do that! No problem!

THE REALITY:
(1.) It costs more now, proportionately, than ever before.

MY REASONING:
(2.) Good intentions.

THE REALITY:
(2.) Not worth the breath it takes to say it, without sustenance!

MY REASONING:
(3) I haven't as long as I once had - I'd like to try to accomplish and realize a dream or two!

THE REALITY:
(3.) Well, I know now, that's all it was! If I had accepted my physical and financial limitations - I would not have had this problem.

MY REASONING:
(4.) I finally survived the traumas of life and can enjoy what little I have salvaged.

THE REALITY:
(4.) Not totally. There is the expense of maintenance of what you salvaged and Social Security does not really cover that!

MY REASONING:
(5.) I've survived a life of poverty, abuse, rejection and threat of and actuality of abandonment. I can survive whatever life dishes out!

THE REALITY:
(5.) Yeah! Well try one blow of defeat at seventy four. I don't have seventy-four more to try and get it right. I will try, as I always do, but my "trying" mechanism is winding down!

MY REASONING:
(6.) I hate defeat! Even with all my efforts - I really haven't succeeded and however we, each, define defeat - I feel there can't be too many more opportunities out there, for me and my efforts.

THE REALITY:
(6.) Don't explain to the world for they do not care. Some win! Some lose! It's that simple. Some win with little effort. Some lose with every effort. Fate?

MY REASONING:
(7.) I have always been hard working, honest, kind hearted, insightful, conscientious, unselfish and many positive qualities that we were taught would see you through. While shining the spotlight of hindsight on my life, I suddenly became aware that these gentle qualities usually work to your detriment in this life.

THE REALITY:
(7.) It hit me like a bolt from the blue! These aren't necessarily redeeming qualities in this world of physical reality To the world, and especially the business world, these are more likely the qualities of a loser. For we literally give our lives away one day at a time with no reserve for that final reckoning day when it's winding down and the world sees us in the only light they see.

Sometimes, if your health goes - you wind up in a wheel chair in a nursing home where you dream images of the bright dreams you once had long ago. It sounds like a totally wasted life and in the outside world's view, it appears that way. But we must remember that in God's Book of Life, beside our name, there may be words that will explain it all.

Lucile I. Burke
August 10, 1997

P.S. Write your own, to this point in your life - being as honest as your ego will let you be. It could shed some light and insight on where you're headed at this point. But to yourself, always be true.