A long way to go
The hardest part of writing the blog, it seems to me at least, is finding a title for each new post. I seem to work backwards, and frequently disappear off on a tangent. How on earth I managed to equate God and Tobacco first thing this morning, I have no clue, it doesn't really matter does it? Keeping to the route isn't essential, the main thing is getting there.
"A journey of a thousand Miles starts with a single step", hmmm, I told you I go off on a tangent, It's been attributed to Confucius and to Lao-Tzu. One major problem there. The Chinese didn't use miles in Confucius' time. The unit of measurement in Imperial China, right up until the middle of the last century, was the li, which was 15 yin,. It was sort of standardised, in the mid 19th century and the li is the approximate equivalent of 500m. Whatever way we look at it, it is a very succinct way of telling oneself that you have to start somewhere!
I spent some time just sitting at my desk, just watching the count up just counting up. It sounds rather sad that I have nothing better to do, but to me, it is exhilarating knowing that over 2 days ago, I stubbed out my last cigarette. I knew then that I had a long way to go, and that the journey would take me in a direction that I had just a little control over.
Whilst the way forward was not entirely unknown, it had been pushed to the recesses of my mind by time. The route seems more familiar now, I can feel the precipices of my addiction either side of me, eagerly waiting to snatch me should I fall, but it doesn't scare me any more. My footing is sure, and I will reach the other side! I will reach the other side because I am a non smoker!
"A journey of a thousand Miles starts with a single step", hmmm, I told you I go off on a tangent, It's been attributed to Confucius and to Lao-Tzu. One major problem there. The Chinese didn't use miles in Confucius' time. The unit of measurement in Imperial China, right up until the middle of the last century, was the li, which was 15 yin,. It was sort of standardised, in the mid 19th century and the li is the approximate equivalent of 500m. Whatever way we look at it, it is a very succinct way of telling oneself that you have to start somewhere!
I spent some time just sitting at my desk, just watching the count up just counting up. It sounds rather sad that I have nothing better to do, but to me, it is exhilarating knowing that over 2 days ago, I stubbed out my last cigarette. I knew then that I had a long way to go, and that the journey would take me in a direction that I had just a little control over.
Whilst the way forward was not entirely unknown, it had been pushed to the recesses of my mind by time. The route seems more familiar now, I can feel the precipices of my addiction either side of me, eagerly waiting to snatch me should I fall, but it doesn't scare me any more. My footing is sure, and I will reach the other side! I will reach the other side because I am a non smoker!
posted by putasolutions at 9:55 pm
4 Comments:
well, you can ask any such questions...why did god make pot? why did god make opium? i used to ask about snakes and grizzly bear and wolves, but i understand the importance of predators, now.
so you live alone, want to get a bike, take a trip, do you work?
I can and I do ask questions like that because it is inherently in my nature!.
At the moment I am out of work, I have recently recovered from a very deep bout of depression following redundancy. As you may have noticed, I am a little (a lot) more confident. Not necessarily take a trip, to explore is closer to the truth.
I have spent so long going from A to B, but I have actually bothered finding out what is in between. Time to change that!
well, you are young, you seem to have a hunger for life, so i think you will find out exactly what is inbetween, and that's a cool way of saying such a thing. where did you used to work? you are in the UK?
I used to work for a major footwear manufacturer/distributor here in the UK as a project manager. The main objective of a project manager in the eyes of senior mnnagement is to put himself out of work, and I achieved that goal, and had fun along the way.
The hunger for life has only just returned, it wasn't so long back that the hunger was for lifes antonym. But time move on, as I have done! The past is the past, can't change it
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