Awesome Sayings and Quotes #2

I like being around books. It makes me feel civilized. The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read. - Tom Clancy

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.Anne Rice
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school"

~Albert Einstein

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are remarkable.  My grammy used to say this.

The world is a better place because you're in it.    My Mom and my Grammy and passed down from me to my kids.

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."--Aristotle

Someone shared this one on Facebook today and I love it.  All I can say is it is the best kind of disease ever!!!!  It's the only contagious thing I would want to catch in a big way besides LOVE.  Love is the most contagious thing ever!!!!

The answer is just around the bend in the river of life.     from Old Moss Woman's Secret Garden FB page.  She shared this one today.  Love it.

“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” - Coco Chanel

 

 

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder    -    H.G. Wells

 

 

 

 

 

 Jennifer Fay

Look forward to #3 post on this later.  Any time I see a cool saying and quote I will put it into these posts to share.  I'm sure we've all heard many of these and sometimes just need to be reminded about what all these people said in life and in our history.  We shouldn't let it be forgotten.

And you never know when one of these might inspire us.

 

 

When One Does Not See: A writing prompt

Here is the full prompt:

When one does not see
what one does not see
one does not even see
that one is blind.

My oldest son came home yesterday after his first full day of school and this is his first essay assignment.

When he told me what the prompt was, I got inspired to write my perspective on this.  I'm sure we will both come up with very different versions both unique to our voices.



Is it the truth indeed that we all are blind?  Is it the person that is truly blind can see much better than us?  I would say it all depends on the person and how they view the world through their mind's eye perspective.

What one would choose to see, another does not see and therefore is oblivious to the fact it is truly there in vivid shape and form.  So many things that exist seem to just float on by undetected by human sight.

Simply begging us to be found yet we walk on by.  Driving by concentrating on all that makes us distracted in life not realizing that we are completely unaware of what exists in this world. 

Blind is what we can really be sometimes.  Did you ever just drive along waiting in traffic and you don't stop to notice the tragic weeping willow tree silently planted in the ground for an extremely long time.  It it could talk, it would probably say, "Take the time to look at me.  I am here and I am tall, proud and beautiful.  Don't forget about me ever."

We don't really stop to look at all the nature around us. But it's not just the nature that we are sometimes oblivious to until we find ourselves taking off the blindfolds and then we begin to SEE.  It's everything that surrounds us.

Just think about all the things you could be inspired to write about if you just could dare to dream, hope, pray and then write down your thoughts and record them.

Or maybe you would rather photograph them.  It's like a quiet image in time.  If we don't see it because we are blind, who do you think is going to find it?  Nothing in this world completely passes us by but like death and dying all these surroundings have a death point when it seizes to exist because it got overlooked and then it's existence changed somehow and it now does not seem to be there anymore.

It has changed as the world changes.  We cannot compete with change, slow it down and alter what was in the past.  Surroundings are always there and we just tend to evolve around it.

Each object has a purpose in life and what it boils down to is for us to stop not seeing and realize that we have the choice to find all these undetected images, thoughts and feelings and decide to document it somehow so it is remembered for what it was.

We can make it what we want it to be.  And above all not to be blind to what we can create with our mind's eye.

We should make the most of our perspective, listen to our new discoveries and learn to see.  Nobody should ever block it all and be blind to the world.  It's what makes us who we are as creative individuals.

Look around you and make your choices as they are yours and yours alone.  Nobody can do this for you.

Jennifer Jo Fay

Copyrighted August 30, 2012