Theme Thursday = Mystery

"The final mystery is oneself!

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.

In your soul are infinitely precious things

that cannot be taken from you.”

Oscar Wilde

Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900

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Rememeber when you were a teenager and how you envisioned your adult life would be? I had a fresh, naive, idealism in my mind. I couldn't imagine anything difficult, character stretching, or soul crushing at that young age. And yet, the peaks and valleys we live through create who we are to become...layers and layers of triumph and tragedy as the years go by. A lot of the outcome has to do with how we choose to live through the circumstances.

A friend of mine recently said that I choose to ride on the top of the waves instead of drowning beneath them. I like that! And although I have spent my share of days and weeks barely treading water, I much prefer riding on top with the wind in my hair! Interesting thing is, I think my life is becoming more complicated the further into it I live! LOL! I look at the first half of my life, even with it's complications...good, bad and even thrilling. The question is, "Do I like the book that the pages of my life are writing?"....and the answer is most certainly, "Yes!" ...even those complicated mysteries and fascinating surprises. I wonder what the next half will bring?

And yes, before you ask, I do plan to live to be 100 years old, so still am only half way...almost! LOL!

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"If you want a happy ending, that depends,

of course, on where you stop your story."

Orson Welles

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“I can't go back to yesterday,

because I was a different person then”

Lewis Carroll

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• Mystery is life
• Years down to
• Seconds
• Triumphs and tragedies
• Each one
• Revealing the real
• You