Rapture
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The shadow returns...
Had a great ten mile run this morning. The sunrise was grand coming over the bay bridge. How the morning light shimmered across the placid ripples of the waves in contrast to the various piers and the darkened bridge. A few were out this morning though, perhaps it was a tad chilling for them; the this is of couse speculation on my part.
What I find interesting its not so much the run but the discipline of those who get up each and every morning and get it done. Sometimes there are mornings of course that you would othewise not want to get out the warm comforts of the covers but to enter the cold to excert such for self. The demand is not so much on others but on yourself; like being, no matter what the crowd would otherwise want to hear or have you do.
The courage of this discipline of course is not exclusive but surely is seldom these days.
Stand in line I say, be nice, be patient and wait your turn, conform, pat those who falter on the head and say its ok, say nothing when it is unpopular to do so, and be rest assured to find your place among 'friends' and the like minded. However, enjoy the view, not from the top of any hill, mountain, or that of the world but in the solitude of many.
My father who was in World War ][- a Marine (without all the techno gadgets of today), had only really two things he did not want to hear from you or manifested, the word "No", and "I Can't". Those were not acceptable nor tolerated.
Do consul yourselves when you see someone or a group of people looking down from the heavens upon "you" when "you" use these words in their various forms, ways, and manifestations. Look not at them but surely look upon yourself in the most deepest and truest of ways for you can say anything to anyone but some people as you do, know the actual truth of things no matter what is spoken.
Perhaps things came to certain focul points for me when I had to relearn how to walk again at age 18, and perhaps even more so when that Marine of yesterday who spoke and more so lived by his own hand without regret, then faced his own mortality head on. I can only say, when my time comes, that I do the same.
I do know though the words "No" and "I Can't" usually come in the form of excuses, especially when there is no other response that can be had from those of limited sight and depth.
Enjoy...
Rapture
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ORIGINAL: Stephann
"And let those who climb hills, console themselves and others that they really climb mountains" 
Stephan
< Message edited by Rapture -- 2/16/2007 7:58:36 AM >
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