tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101506574726570738.post6747944390974541862..comments2011-04-11T20:27:13.086-07:00Comments on the Twisted Apples: Change Junkies and the generation thereofNichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353639020282811062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101506574726570738.post-36749555388571367622011-02-11T20:15:23.507-08:002011-02-11T20:15:23.507-08:00" these people rush around recklessly spendin..." these people rush around recklessly spending money, diving into relationships, or hopping from job to job." <br /><br />Of whom do you speak, good sir? I have known none of these things to be true for a corpse (the idiom "working stiff" should be fully pondered). <br /><br />"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours,<br />Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;<br />A violet in the youth of primy nature,<br />Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,<br />The perfume and suppliance of a minute —<br />No more."<br />--LaertesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154720431388716750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101506574726570738.post-5341446187515557772011-02-11T14:17:19.001-08:002011-02-11T14:17:19.001-08:00Nic,
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your thoug...Nic,<br /><br />I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your thoughts; thanks for sharing. I found this post to be especially poignant to me as I have struggled with coming down from the high that was college and settling into this adult life. You put into words so many of the feelings and thoughts with which I have wrestled since graduating. <br /><br /> I was disappointed in your conclusion, I must confess. In the final two lines you state that that the hope of change must become one’s focus or one will suffer the bitter disappointment of a life lived in the present. Nic, this present moment is all we have; the one that came before is gone, the one that may follow isn’t promised. “You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing.” (James 4.14) <br /> I understand that the romance of being an adult isn’t nearly as glamorous as we once believed it would be and I feel as you described the restlessness and anticipation. Nevertheless, we must rest content in this moment, making the most of the right now. If tomorrow comes, praise God. But it may not. If it doesn’t will you be proud of how you spent this precious time, or this you only taste the bitter disappointment of a tomorrow left unfulfilled?Sarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04717744698028019705noreply@blogger.com