Times get rough once in a while. Times seem good once in a while. Then, there's the mixed bag—the good with the bad. Maybe life follows the thermodynamic rule: for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Whatever.
It's hard to wax philosophical when chips are down. But, I guess the Maker can reverse chips when it is due time. I wish I could determine the due time. That's not the case, however. In the meantime, life goes on. Maybe not in the same fashion as before, but in some fashion nonetheless. Whatever.
Inside every dark cloud is a silver lining. A crock, of course, but it encourages people just the same. Then there's the story of the Chinese farmer whose son fell off of a horse. People said that's bad. But, as a result the son did not have to go to war because of his broken leg. People said that's good. But, the son's leg was not set right, so it became malformed. Now that was bad, except that he contracted a disease in the leg that doctors had to heal and refracture and reset the leg as a result. That was good. But not so... ad infinitum. That story is more like the roller coaster of life, but fictitious and a crock nonetheless. Whatever.
I hate the twisting turns of life. A country-western song a few years back had the title, Life is like a river. I hate not being able to see around the bends ahead. It wears a person out and otherwise keeps one from enjoying life. Whatever.
It's hard to wax philosophical when chips are down. But, I guess the Maker can reverse chips when it is due time. I wish I could determine the due time. That's not the case, however. In the meantime, life goes on. Maybe not in the same fashion as before, but in some fashion nonetheless. Whatever.
Inside every dark cloud is a silver lining. A crock, of course, but it encourages people just the same. Then there's the story of the Chinese farmer whose son fell off of a horse. People said that's bad. But, as a result the son did not have to go to war because of his broken leg. People said that's good. But, the son's leg was not set right, so it became malformed. Now that was bad, except that he contracted a disease in the leg that doctors had to heal and refracture and reset the leg as a result. That was good. But not so... ad infinitum. That story is more like the roller coaster of life, but fictitious and a crock nonetheless. Whatever.
I hate the twisting turns of life. A country-western song a few years back had the title, Life is like a river. I hate not being able to see around the bends ahead. It wears a person out and otherwise keeps one from enjoying life. Whatever.
4 comments:
i agree with what i understand here. but i cant tell if you are being sarcastic and saying well whatever, "sh** happens" "thats life", or if you really mean what i think you mean and hate that this is how it goes. ??? please explain
Everything happens for a reason. I believe this, I really do. I don't think it does anyone any good to fear the bends of live because their inevitable. Their going to happen ready or not. All you can do is accept the challenges or you'll just live your life in fear and that's no way to live. Embrace the challenges that life gives you. Learn from them, grow from them! Their tests from god and if you have faith in Christ then why the fear?
Nathan, I was trying for irony all right, but not necessarily for sarcasm. Sarcasm is negative in nature. Irony just shows that unexpected twists happen. The "whatever" used at the ends of paragraphs is intended to punctuate that humans have no control over life's events.
Esmeralda, I know that many Christians say that everything happens for a reason. I'm still working on that one. The story about the Chinese farmer deals more with serendipity to me than with a guided plan, more with the ironies of life over a plan of individual intervention. I'm still learning about life, though, so maybe I'll end up in the same spot you are.
Well, i'm a Christian and i don't believe that everything happens for a reason. Things happen because a person chose to do something that led to something else. God gave us free will. So things happen not because it was destined to happen...they happened because we chose it to happen.
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