LoveUbecause … you are “life”- a circuitous route!

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Well it is Friday evening and another week has passed. I guess, as many, it has had its ups and downs, but for the most part, it has been pretty good. This week I have been going through a lot of material that I have written in the past, searching for pieces I think appropriate  and hopefully worthwhile for visitors to LoveUbecause.com .

I came across the following, which I wrote on the occasion of my 50th birthday ( not so long ago ). I guess I wanted to put down in writing a few of the things I learnt in my first half century on this earth. Maybe not that original to some, but nonetheless important to me.

I know I emailed this out to some of my family and friends at the time, if for no other reason than the recognition that they had actually been a part of teaching me something. To be honest, I had forgotten I had written this, so if nothing else it is a reminder to me of what I have learnt and something, hopefully worthwhile, for others to think about. So here goes … “my words of wisdom” …

” Life should be a circuitous route – to be cliché, because life can often be just that, “it is about the journey, not the destination” and “the road less travelled.” (Robert Frost) It is about being a student and a teacher and learning as much from your students when you are the teacher as you hope they will learn from you. It is about loving and giving and hoping for a little love and respect in return when the time is right. It is about realizing how imperfect you are, striving to change, forgive and forget the imperfections of others. It is about realizing how much you know and sharing that knowledge with others. It is about realizing how very little you know and always wanting to learn more. It is about wives, children, family, friends and pets and animals that offer unconditional love for little in return but just that - love, respect and consideration. Life is about memories and earning them - sometimes unexpectedly. It is about going out of our way without always knowing the rewards, about welcoming the unexpected and learning from it when it is indeed just that - unexpected. Life on balance should hopefully be good, but we unfortunately do have to accept the good with the bad, the ugly, frustration and disappointment – without the total package we would never learn to grow and never have truly loved or lived. Life is certainly about money, power, position and material things – that is reality - but ultimately, hopefully we learn how little we need of any of it to be happy. Life is about a lot of other very important things that I have missed, but it is also about not philosophizing too much and getting on with it. Just please remember …

Life should be a circuitous route – if we lived it from beginning to end as directly, efficiently and cost effectively as possible, it would indeed be very short!” (© 2007 Andrew Neil Olscher)  - with a nod to Freud, because appartently he had something to say about this too!  Though I am not sure it was quite so “uplifting”!  I’ll let you look that one up on your own time.  (A.O.)

Here’s hoping your weekend meanders a “circuitous route”!

Sending a little love you way …

“A” the “O” in LVE!

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