We don't have to do anything - we always have a choice. (Tim W., 38)

Choices

Recent Simplex GIG

The old lady and her collection of wisdom that I am always going on about has some stuff about choices as the next on the list.  The quote is above at the top
......Soft fire makes sweet malt
A proverbial expression meaning that reckless hurrying often spoils an undertaking or project.  Soft fire, They say, does make sweet Malt, Good Squire. (Samuel Butler, Hudibras, 1663)  Malt is burnt and its sweetness lost by too intense a fire. This expression, synonymous with the common phrase haste makes waste, is now rarely heard.
 Choose to watch the fire.
Just like the I' Ching everything has two sides. The positive and negative.  The dark and light.  The soft and the hard.  The strong and the weak.  The good and the bad!  Sometimes your choices you're faced with are so narrow though that the only one safe choice you have is to act or to do absolutely nothing!  In Australia we call that "Sitting Pat" like in a game of poker (cards).  In other words there isn't any other choice other than to sit and wait for something more favorable to turn up!  That is still a choice though.

Life is the same and the hardest part for me is to sit 'Pat'.  I am getting better at it.  I suppose other people may call this having patients.  I was most certainly behind the door when that was being handed out as well.  I am always keen to get stuck into something enthusiastically and I get impatient when I am held up by others from achieving the goal that is at hand! 

There are two things that will get me angry and that is frustration and injustice.  Sometimes the frustration levels I experience as a direct result of an injustice purported against me are phenomenal.  When this happens, I must above all wait with patients to see to the end of the situation with out blowing it along the way!  I get a couple of chances here usually because I never seem to get it right first up.  That's not done on purpose, I somehow think its a blonde thing and my God understands,  some allowance is given for this to me.  I act thick sometimes,  because at certain times it all just goes over my head!   That is called "The Blondening".. (play on words from the Quickening.) So sometimes its not fun being blonde.  But really that is only one percent of the time  Blondes on the whole, are very lucky people.

Anyway choices are always there.  We may think we don't have a choice but we always do!  We can choose to stand fast and fight or turn and run as fast as we can.  We can take it or leave it.  The decision rests with ourselves and if we make a string of good choices then the outcome is totally favorable as apposed to making a bunch of bad choices!  Every action has a reaction so look for what that might be when making a choice!  Look down the track a little to see what could happen then make the choice.

I am even impatient with God, such heresy this is too.  But God knows me and I am pretty sure this isn't a surprise to him.  He created me with all the vibrancy of spirit he could summon up at the time.  I have had a thirst for knowledge since I could first talk so I am always told.  I  asked a lot of questions because I wanted a lot of answers.  I had the choice to shut up as a child, somehow it just never happened and I was in constant trouble for asking questions.  I stressed them I suppose,  like I stress others at times.  My enthusiasm is just too much for most people and they find this quite foreign and would prefer to say that is a mental health issue because I am not a rich person.  If I was a rich person I would then just be eccentric.  The difference in these two things or labels is the size of the person's bank balance.  Rich well off people are always eccentric and never labelled mad.  That is because no one really wants to offend these so called eccentrics because in all of their eccentricity they may just leave their fortune to someone and far be it to offend when money is on the line!  Most choose the latter as it isn't easy to be honest with yourself this way.

I woke up singing a song in my head today from One Direction... When are we going to get there, are we there yet? People are we there yet?  when are we gonna get there! etc etc etc.

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