Things

I’m a proponent of not taking "people" or "things" for granted. Of course, I wasn't always this way, but as we get older and begin to mellow within our own skin, we get secure with who we have become, we become so very conscious of time, places, people and "things".

However, I don't know what the issue has been with me lately, or if what I'm experiencing is even an "issue" at all. Nonetheless, I'm becoming even more conscientious of a few of these "things" and my environment on the regular. But not meticulous in the normal sense like one would be if a stranger's leg touched yours. Or if a person sat down next to you while commuting who emitted a foul odor causing you to give them….."the glance." And you all know …."the glance" we give to a person when something about them just-ain't-right. So don't go acting like it's just me who passes off ….."the glance."

What I'm talking about is giving thought, real thought to the abstract things in life. The "things" that make life worth living. The "things" that punctuate life and make it consequential. Some of these "things" are so abstract, so untouchable and so elusive, that we rarely even give em the mere inkling of mental consideration they deserve at all. But these "things" are unavoidably interspersed amongst each of us everyday, and yet, we are blinded to the benefit of them.

We get caught up in insignificant crap ya know? The stuff that seems important to us at the time, but in retrospect, we realize it's not really important at all. Stuff like, what man is going to try to "mack" on some woman? Or what woman is trying to "get over" on some man? Who's sleeping with whom? Or who's eyeballing your man or woman? But if we were to live without the significant "things" in our lives, unfortunately, life as we know it would be almost non-existent, or overall meaningless.

I received an email from a dear friend of mine last week. And after reading it, boy was I moved! So enthused was I about this email that I mentally took it with me during my subsequent train rides home during the week. I even gave further deliberation to it again before going to bed, and I was so surprisingly stirred by it that I decided to pen this piece!

Dontcha think it amazing how we go about our daily existence never thinking in terms of the "abstracts" that have the power to improve us? Life and its wondrous intangibles can make our subsistence momentous—all we have to do is pay attention! If you don't have some of these obscure "things" that boost the core of who you are, then you need to make some serious adjustments to guarantee before you meet your Maker, that you have gained the benefit of these obscurities with all their wraithlike consequences, lock, stock and barrel!!

Usually, my stories are long. But this time, I'm going to allow the text of this particular email to bring forth an introspective thought process within you dear reader as opposed to my words doing same. With any luck, after reading the words from this email I received, you'll be prompted to do some personal assessment and begin to live life anew, if you haven't already.

The following is the main focus from the email that I received: I take no credit for the context or content of same.

Three things in life once gone, never come back: Time, words and opportunity;
Three things in life that one should always have: Hope, peace and honesty;
Three things in life that are most valuable: Love, friends, and self-confidence'
Three things in life that are never certain: Success, dreams and fortune;
Three things in life that make a good person: Sincerity, hard work and compassion;
Three things in life that can destroy a person: Pride, greed and anger;
Three things in life that are truly constant: FATHER, SON and the HOLY GHOST!

Nuff said! Now run tell that!!!

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