Understanding Silence ..

Growing up means learning what life is..
When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria,
plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait
for them to happen to you and then life will work..
But life isn't like that, for anybody.. You can't live in a criteria,
you have to live your life.. You can't wait for your plans to
materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they
will.. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to
you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it.. Always
take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing
up takes that even one step further.. growing up means that you have
to hold on to what you have, when you have it.. because what you have
is what's yours.. and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your
head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you...
those are illusions ..

Yet, there's a second aspect to this .. You can go anywhere you want
to go and do anything you want to do .. buy all the things that you
want to buy.. meet all the kinds of people that you want to meet..
and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all
these things but aren't deeply attached to the things you love, the
things you care about all the time.. you have still not begun to live
..

-Sweetness & Life


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hamza ..