Consider the Bonsai
Saturday, 17. June 2006, 10:33:35
Consider the bonsai. Such disfigurement on the altar of beauty. Yet the bonsai lives on and can even bear blossoms and fruit.
No matter what melancholy and misery you have suffered thorough your life, your life is not over, it is still growing. So, use your wonderful powers of concentration to trim away the thoughts that are painful, the feelings of melancholy, and the scars left by your misery. Trim away the thoughts that are holding you back from becoming the wonder that is your future self.
Did your teacher ask you to write a metaphor: "What would you do if you were young again?" If so, I'm sure it was thought provoking and gave you many ideas. You would do many things differently!
You are now at the beginning of the rest of your life. Now is the time to do things differently and change the person who you will be, into the person whom you should be. You know you can do it. But perhaps you endeavor to reach true romanticism (the exultation of feeling above intellect, or of hope above knowledge), suffering your pain and loneliness forever and maybe writing romantic poetry.
I believe in your intellect. Do you? You can raise yourself higher than you can imagine, if you apply yourself and let loose your fetters.
( Fetters are iron rings placed around the ankle to which chains are attached.)
Don't chain yourself! There are plenty of others who wish to do that already. Don't join them!
WIDGETIZE
Ivy # 17. June 2006, 12:58
so happy to see you have drop me a line while i logged in my blog..now i am really feeling tired but quiet relieved as well,,i just finished an important english exam...well,,,tired,...
xixi,,,i think everyone who has read my writings will come to the conclusion that i am a girl living in misery..but not really indeed,,,i am an optimistic one with smiles all day long...but i don't know why i would seem so pessimitic in my writings,,maybe that has something to do with my experience,...someone said this emotional doesn't correspond to my age...i am only 20..but seems that i am over 30 in my heart...xixi...
in fact,my life's experiences sound quiet dramatic...ha...
nice to meet you,dear friend...i am so happy to meet friends in this website..before,i have no friends here..how poor i am...but i have lots of friends in this real world..i love being accompanied by them...i love all my friends....ha...
New Zealand??my english teacher once studies there for 2 years,,,
Jon # 20. June 2006, 00:20
In Guangzhou today, the weather is:
Later, there may be scattered:
Bea # 21. June 2006, 16:02
It has some time that I'm changing myself and I'm enjoying very much the way I am now. I know that are lots of others things to improve but I'm sure that all that I did till now, gave me a good result.
I'm happy!
hey, I like bonsais... they're full of life!
hugs to you
Jon # 21. June 2006, 16:27
Have a great day! Thanks for the hug!
J