The Noble Pagan Forums - Nothing in Life is Easy

#1 11-10-2008

Maybe the problem is that I expected it to be easy and learned too late that is extremely challenging. The difficulty of life combined with the disapointment brought by major experience (love, work, friendship) keeps me up or makes me bury my head under the pillow.

*Ravenwillow* · #2 11-11-2008

Shadowed Beginnings
It all begins in darkness
We kindle the fire

Each new experience
Is a new log on the fire
But green wood brings smoke

New seasons can cure wood
Let it burn cleaner, if we learn
To take the pure logs

Sometimes smoke is easier
Hides the bitter truth from us
But joyous truth too

Pick your wood with care
Burn only the driest logs
Let your light burn clear

Don't bury your head
The sand will extinguish fire
Diminish the light

Instead lift your head
And Clear out the old ashes
Build a purer flame

Lift your heart to them
The Gods you praise and worship
Let them take your weight

Keep the fire kindled
Always seek new logs to burn
And they'll light the way

In your cold despair
Seek also your friends to help
Its what they're here for

To show you the light
When you've lost your way in night
To bring you back home

Share your burdens friend
Let us help you carry them
Many hands, light work

You are not alone
You've got us here to share it
And lighten your load

**silverchilungdraig** · #3 11-15-2008

raven, I see you still have a way with the poems,...great to see I might add,....

Assicsy,....everthing in live is worth learning,...hard or easy,good or bad.....myself it's nice to have once in a while some easier stuff,.....but then the harder stuff is worth while too, cause there are usually lessons to be had,..just saying, n venting.

*oonagh* · #4 03-06-2009

maybe it's best to keep expectations out of the picture as much as possible?

**moondancer** · #5 03-13-2009

accisywenia,

maybe it is that expectations were too hight.
Or maybe it is that a typical "mistake" came up. As I know from my very own personality, I tend to think things easy...more or less willingly not wanting to know it could be different due to anything not in my direct responsibility.

So you might want to look at the character of Beppo in Momo...:
Instead of becoming desperate because of the long street in front of him that he will have to have cleared till the end of the day...he simply keeps his eyes fixed to the ground, only sweeping the part directly in front of his feet. And all of a sudden the road is done...

Yet if it's about friends being a disappointment...I had to rearrange my definition of "friend" just recently....you never know...but it's not your fault to not have noticed before...

moondander