NAPKIN WORDS #27 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor

 

1. PROBLEMS
No matter what economic or social background,
life will have problems. In fact, no matter how
good you are as a person, problems are going
to play an important part in your life.

How does one recognize problems?

First, accept that you cannot see around corners.
Some type of technological advancement, in the
future, might allow you to view around physical
corners, but I can assure you that many of the
corners will not be of physical dimensions, but
rather of other dimensions, so life forces you to
face unexpected problems, no matter who you are.

Second; Ask yourself, Have you always seen what
was right in front of you? The answer is no.

It all boils down to one issue, you must accept the
fact that problems will arrive, no matter what.

Knowing just this one thing is a brightness of light
in the mystery, that darkness of life that at one
time or another, all will and essentially must
experience.

To solve your problems, you have to face them, it is
as simple as that!

2. QUESTION OF WILLINGLY UNSEEING
There are a myriad of colors to each and every
rainbow, why would you not look to discover
just a few of their imaginative wonders?

3. WHEN NONE HAS BEEN THERE AND BACK
Just because someone tells you that there are
four dogs in heaven and one cat in hell, does
not mean that you should accept this as a fact.

In fact, they very well may be telling you a lie,
a second hand rumor, or just something they
imagined.

As it has often been said, “The proof is in the
pudding,” not the telling.

Just another way to alert you to the idea that
you should not believe everything you are
told.

Believe in what you wish to believe in, do not
allow another to change your belief unless you
know for certain that they have been there, and
are now certain, that they are back!

4. HANDS
Life is very much like water, for it flows swiftly
through your hands, regardless should your hands
be clamped into angry fists or clasped together
in acts of prayer!

NATIVE

Home with the sea, those seafaring
sailors who once ruled waves,
owned continents, spreading
oceans
where so many souls
have gone to
grave.

What great escapes for marriage
gone bad,
children unruly,
ways of life
in civilized lands too tame for men
who were adventurous
born.

Look at natives who have blue eyes.
Where was the spot
that spoiled a
way,
created new growth greater than
gold?

Yet turned from heat to color
cold,
slaughtering achievements
their progeny.

Then sailed for home to settle
down.

To ways of life, marriage gone
bad.

by Edward Hunter