"I couldn't sleep last night and needed to get up at 2.00 am to clear my head. I had a cup of tea and a slice of toast and felt the need to compose some poetry about dear Lady, whom we had to let go yesterday. My emotions are still too raw to let me get any farther than the following:
'It's very hard to be one's best,
to have a mind that will not rest.
Be sustained by bones that only ache,
to pulsate a heart that wants to break;
yet, have the knowledge from above,
to know that those we truly love
will never leave us, never die,
instead, will roam about on high,
and watch over us in gratitude.'
After composing the short poem above, I had a half hour of quiet meditation and allowed my mind to settle on a more positive note before posting my 'Thought for Today' early and retiring back to bed.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us to pass through. The doorway to our happiness will never open wide enough for us to enter, if we fail to see the beauty that still surrounds us in our everyday life. Paradoxically, it is only when we lose someone we love that we have the opportunity to grow stronger as a consequence and to emerge a better person following our bereavement. Take it from a person with a terminal illness; it is a known fact that people who maintain a worldly interest live both longer and happiest. It is not what we lost, but what we have that forms our bedrock of stability. It is not what we have, but what we enjoy which represents the first pillar in our state of happiness. The second and most important pillar in our temple of wisdom is to know that no person is happy unless and until they think themselves so. As Leo Tolstoy said, 'If you want to be happy, be.'
We will never know the wealth of experience to be had or appreciate the true richness that life can bring, until we rid ourselves of self doubt and skepticism of all things foreign. Peace will never rest within us if we fail to recognise the struggle of all creatures in need of safety and security. Our vista to the world and our future in it will always remain limited until we walk through that door and become positively engaged in what lies before us.
If Lady ever reinforced a truth in me by her presence, it was the belief that life is truly wonderful to be surrounded by unqualified love, and the sooner we realise that fact, the more time we will have remaining to enjoy it. Our life is a wonderful journey not to be missed, and if we fall in love with our travels through it and embrace the positive lessons from all our experiences, we will enjoy every moment, every move we make and every breath we take." William Forde: September 20th, 2016.
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