I'm going to do alot of paraphrasing here, in order to shorten it and highlight the spots I felt most applicable.
Come forth into the light of things. Let Nature be your teacher~ William Wordsworth
" Can you imagine people getting mad at a tree for dropping leaves?
We do it all the time. Foolish as it is, we often get exasperated with people and things for being what they are. We get irritated to find that some of their charms have a most uncharming flipside....we want only the beautiful shade of the tree in the summer, not the messy cleanup in the fall.
In many ways, people simply are what they are, (including us). We are our height, our hairlines, our backgrounds. We are our coloring, our race, our sex. Much about us cannot and should not be changed. To take all of Nature's gifts and then bewail the downside is ungrateful as well as foolish.
Some things, and some folks, just have to be accepted for being exactly what they are supposed to be. Some things just shouldnt be changed..... " chris
Okay, Rob, control that Gland, I know you can do it. We've all had to at some point. Remember, I'm a tree hugger, which makes me an endangered species out here in LoggerLand, WA. I hang out with the spotted owls, none of my neighbors will be seen with me. Chainsaw is a blasphemy at my house, unless the wind blows one of the fracking things down in the middle of the night. Which is far too often...
Dean, that's kind of like how mad I get when I go out in the morning and the elk have eaten my bulbs. I mean, LOL, what did I expect, right? They walk up and down the Duckabush river all night, chirping at eachother, and pretty flowers are like, their desert, and I plant them each and every year. And each and every year, I'm standing in the middle of my yard screaming "Elk for dinner".
What do they say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Something about mental health????
Thanks Wren for that right on post ceptin at the end I had to change "some" to "All" just for me. I accepted the first mentioned for what it was though...Elk for dinner is a kind of acceptance in itself too right?
Hiking by myself in the woods nearby your neck a few years back, I came across a whole herd of Elk in a small grove. I walked around a corner and there were about twenty-five of the giants no more than 30 feet in front of me. They all turned around at once and stared. That's one of my favorite nature moments.
Acceptance is the answer to most if not all of my "problems". Thank you for the natural reminder.
I find myself placing "unrealistic expectations" on people all the time, and need to remember that for me, that's a good way to start a resentment. I'm constantly giving people, places and things over to God, only to take it back. Yup, I'm still sick, but getting better one day at a time.
