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ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

27 Monday Sep 2010

Posted by Cheryl Ries in God

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Blessing, God, Possibilities, Time, Youth

ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

 

When we are young, we look at our lives ahead as endless, infinite expanses of unfulfilled promise.  We see days stretched out before us as limitless miles left in our tanks, nothing to restrict us, nor to restrain our momentum.  We don’t consider ramifications, complications, situations, or implications.  We only take one day after another like we’ve all the time in the world!

Somewhere along the way, hopefully later rather than sooner, we begin to see small foretellings of the possibilities that life is truly not so infinite.  Some elderly relative dies, or we hear of a tragedy which has befallen someone near to us, but it’s still not enough to force reality into our heads and hearts.  We still thrive in our carefree youth, denying the adult notion that mortality truly exists for us.

Soon we reach a time when responsibilities of life seep in enough that we start to pay attention more.  We’ve our instant communications to remind us that in fact, life is ebbing all around us like vast tidal pools; life comes and goes, but still maybe not for our realization, to us.  Maybe we haven’t yet felt the sting of personal tragedy, nor prolonged illness or disease threatening at our doorways.  Perhaps we have been blessed with intolerably good health and have a feeling of impenetrable well-being.  We are invincible, even though we surely see others are not.  It’s our good fortune and God’s blessings.

Oh, but then it comes, the threat of all threats.  We find the impenetrable barriers of our happy-go-lucky walls have in fact been knocked a bit; something foreign has entered our safety zones.  We taste illness, we taste death, and we understand mortality, usually at a time when we start to sense our own coming rapidly through life’s progression.  We can see, along with our newly formed lines of character, which mark the triumphs and failings of life upon our faces, our bodies seem to resemble those of our elders, those of our parents, or grandparents, something we just cannot understand.  Where did our time go?  How do we now relate to time as our enemy?

It is then, when time is daring you to see it as a finite human measure that we must find what we are made of.  We must conquer our fears and press forward in life, bravely deciding that, in its most precious element, brevity, time is now asking, no … pleading with us, to be more diligent, more efficient, more appreciative and less wasteful.  Time is demanding us to mature along beside it, knowing full well the most important concept of life other than love is to appreciate this gift of time!   It is precious, rare, and no matter which part of life’s spectrum you are standing, it is an unseen commodity which one must assume to be finite.  When we are young, we make our choices without the benefit of wisdom, when it finally comes, it is crucial to make certain the wisdom learned through our life lessons didn’t arrive too late to make a difference!

 

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THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED

26 Sunday Sep 2010

Posted by Cheryl Ries in Dreams, God

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Dreams, Failure, failure, God, Life, pathway, special, Success, success, unique, Uniqueness, uniqueness, Youth, youth

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED

 

Call me special, call me unique, call me one-of-a-kind, but I will not live my life according to the paperdoll cut-out images copied by anyone else!  I want my own life, my own pathway, I don’t want to shadow anyone else . . . I want a life that is authentically mine, not a carbon copy, nor a duplicate, nor a contrivance, but rather, reality . . . my own sweet, messy, sometimes stressful, but always real, and a bit bumpy, less-travelled road!

I’ve had some successes and some failures in my life.  I’ve done good and bad, made my decisions and lived with the consequences.  I will always be the sum total of my choices, combined with genetics and the family life I was given by God.  I am like no one else, but that’s alright by me!  I have modeled my life after no one else.  I have copied no other human being, much less any other woman.  I have made choices which reflect what I needed and wanted at the time, so I must always give myself the credit for living authentically for myself! 

Was I always this paragon of implicit strength?  No.  When I was young, I did what most younger people do, living in some regard swayed by the trends, our friends, our ability to comprehend the world’s influences upon us at each and every new rung of the ladder.  I read magazines, watched videos, dreamt of the day I would be just like the supermodel on the cover of some fashion magazine, or emulating my favorite celebrity, wishing I could have their life.  But I was young and oh so impressionable, that’s what we do when we are younger, we mimic, we learn by observing, we are not yet mature and developed.  Now, because I am happy with being me, I don’t strive to follow any trend, to change my look to suit any other person’s style, nor to be anything other than authentically me!

I choose to live my life being the very best me I can be!  I walk independantly in my own shoes, wanting to set goals and dream dreams which pertain to my desires.  I don’t complicate my life by usurping a friend’s ideas of what life should be, nor assuming their dreams as my own, I let my own roadway play out before me, remembering too that staring in the rear-view mirror of life will just slow me down on my way to reaching my next destination!  I am able to coexist with family, friends, and even my significant other while remaining a separate and distinct person.  If you are not being genuine, nor living authentically, nor discovering what your own dreams look like when played upon the movie screen of your life, then you will never experience the full range of highs and lows on your life’s most thrilling amusement ride!  Give up chasing, with eager intent, someone else’s version of life, make it all your own!  Take the road less travelled, you might just like charting the unknown!

IN THE BEGINNING . . .

06 Monday Sep 2010

Posted by Cheryl Ries in Dreams, Life

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Cheryl Ries, Communication, communication, Dreams, Life, Model

IN THE BEGINNING . . .

 

Welcome . . . I’m using this first post to introduce myself, my name is Cheryl Ries, and although I’ve written blog posts for a company blog I co-founded, this is my initial entry into self-promotion!  What do you think so far?  Ah, you say it’s too soon to tell.  I can only qualify my attributes, my abilities, by explaining my desire to fulfill a lifelong passion for writing.  It’s either you who become my noble guinea pigs, or I make my beginner’s mistakes in a more serious arena such as a novel, which isn’t always guaranteed editing these days.

We’ve all slipped into a new world, one of our own making, but still unfamiliar to most of us.  We were swept away by a wave of technology before most of us even grabbed onto something sturdy like a byte, and now, we are adrift in some unknown, unchartered sea of mysterious digital reefs.  

Have you any idea how these things function, computers I mean, or are you a novice like me?  Let me assure you, I can dig a big enough hole for myself here, so if you see me forgetting to tag or categorize something for my own betterment, you might suggest how I can utilize this blog to help us all be more effective communicators.  I have no problem being wordy, verbally or on paper, even typing on this pesky computer keyboard, it’s the more subtle places, such as blogs and websites which I am now discovering.
Bear with me, and I will attempt to make this an exciting exploration into a woman’s midlife mind, a place of dark recesses, deep and cavernous thoughts, as well as the most likely place for ideas to be volleyed back and forth until they see the light of day! 

Have a wonderful new week, a great Labor Day, what is left of it anyway . . . and for those of you abroad, you always have my sincere affection and fond regards!  Ciao! Cheryl

 

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