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Maybe we do; and it is meant to make us so not want to feel it again that we just have to strive to succeed.
I always used to say, "Success is the best revenge." If we spend more time and effort on trying to create good in our own lives, it serves us far better in the long run that taking up all our time and effort in trying to get back at people who have wronged us ... even in the most devastating ways.
Once we start working on something, even the hurdles call for our focus. Maybe especially they. So it's not simply the success at the end that helps us swear off vengeance; it's all the challenges we may encounter along the way, that do not leave us energy to do anything else but try and try and try again.
Just is no justice
I'm trying to make a Media renaissance in Trinidad & Tobago. I'm working alone, with practically no resources, and dealing with damage that's as raw, deep and wrong in my soul as the time when it was first being inflicted."Only justice will make it right," someone who loves me once said, when I was wailing from the assault that turmoil delivers in spades.
But what justice? Where is justice? As the old rap song intoned, "There's no justice, there's just us."
Just me.
"I am indomitable summer."Sometimes, though, it's hard to remember that.
Better to make something good than to hate. Hating takes so much commitment because it so goes against the grain of our nature. We have to work at it. It's like the most active verb in the world.
You may wonder what I am blathering about. All I intended to do with this post was tell you that I opened a Pexels.com account, for people who might want my photos.
I was so disappointed when most of the best shots were not the right size to be submitted that I almost mired myself in my modern-Luddite, no-speaky-techy slough of despond.
Why can't it just go right?!?
Maybe, to quote yet another song, because "anything worth my love is worth my fight."
I don't know. I really don't know.
All I know for sure is that we each are appointed talents and it is left to us to decide what we will try to do with them. But often the world gets in the way and breaks everything.
Sometimes all we are left with is work ... so it's best if we make it good. As Kalil Gibran stated after all, "Work is love made visible."
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