For my topic today I've chosen getting along. We choose whether to let people in, or to keep them out, often after the silliest of misunderstandings or arguments.
Here's a quotation I just found, that seems to cover what our choice is, on a very personal level right up to international relations.
"In life many people throw stones in your path. What will you do with them? Build a wall, or build a bridge? Remember you are the architect of your own life. What will you choose to do? " -Unknown-
I think sometimes we hastily construct a very sturdy wall. In time we come to regret that as the wall can be too solid to break through. Better to build a bridge. No-one has to cross it today, but maybe we'll be glad it was there, a little later on.
Hope everyone has a very pleasant day.
(Photo: Joao Cordeiro, Unsplash.com)
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Smashing weather we're having. Hope it stays like it for a while. It makes you feel a little bit better when the Sun is out. Love♥️ & Hugs Gloxxxxxxx 💐🌷
Hi RoadRunner44. It's not my picture. I used it from a really great website called Unsplash.com. All the pictures there are free to use so no encounters with copyright problems. I highly recommend it. It's populated by amateur photographers hoping to get some publicity for their work and most of them are very accomplished.
Very good quote, has a good meaning to it. Im half and half . Id prefer to build a bridge, but 30 years ago i built a bridge but the people that i would like to have crossed it have built a wall .So for 30 years I've just been waiting in vain.
Thanks Gjkas and I hope you had a lovely day too! What super weather we've had. Not my picture but from one of the amateur photographers at Unsplash.com. I often use pics from that site as they are free to use.😀
Hi Tara52, No, I hadn't even heard of Dr Henry Cloud, (John Townsend), but now you've flagged up this book I took a look online. I see he's quite a prolific writer of advice on many topics, and Boundaries looks very interesting to the extent that I could examine it on Amazon! Is it something that's been useful in your own life?
Wonderful. wise advice: Adopting it will bless the one who does so, Many, many thanks.
Hi Callendersgal, firstly another lovely picture and post. I like to build bridges myself I'm not one for wanting to build wall's life is to short x
Once again Hidden an excellent quote. I tend to be seen as very sociable and will speak to anyone, I've no fear of being in a room where I don't know anyone as I will easily start up a conversation with a stranger.
My problem is I don't always open up and show my true feelings, I'm just like my lovely mum used to be.
nice quote -where is the picture of -it s very pretty
when I was in junior high school -like all of my school life i was bullied. one kid came up to me & hit me -Luckily at the time I had just got my orange belt in judo so I got so angry with her regularly doing it every time we were in the same classroom I finally snapped & gave her a judo throw & it broke her arm because she fell awkardly & it served her right. Days later I was horseriding out & inadvertedly rode past her house -& out she came & recognised me & she was as nice as pie!!!!!! Of course I just ignored her when she shouted my name-she deserved what she got
Hi sara_2611, the picture's not my work, so I'm not sure where it was taken. But it very much reminds me of where my family and I stayed in Cumbria last autumn, on a farm near Tebay on the river Lune. We had to take a sharp turn off the road, straight over a bridge across the Lune, and then down beside the river for a mile or so to get to our holiday cottage. I loved it!
I absolutely love that photo, by the way. Thinking about your quotation, it is so true. I am an expert wall-builder around me, although I build bridges in another sense. Perhaps we're all like that, a mixture of the two?
It's all very well being good at being alone, but we are really not meant to be alone all the time and without friends. "No man is an island" expresses a similar sentiment. Who was that? I have a vague feeling it might have been Jonathon Swift or John Dunne. Unfortunately, I am recovering from the years of "mush for brains" and it hasn't all come back to me yet, LOL.
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