Olympics

So turns out parts of my life have passed me by. I wont be a child prodigy (age requirements - under 10?) More harrowingly I will not be an olympian (so many reasons! Age, ability, gozzy eyes, etc....) But I missed out through also not really trying and giving my all, before you know it your olympic career is over!? I could go for shooting, or some other event where age is less significant. Or represent the people's republic Crablakistan but safe to say I wont. I never realised it was an option to be honest, I always watched as though it was another universe and didn't think i got to do stuff like that. I am hoping over the next few years I remember that contentness is a habit rather than a reality but also that I have the desire and inclination to do what I want to do and to not limit myself by only living within my experience. Living in 'I can't wait to...' rather than 'I wonder what it would be like to...'

All the best

big hugs

Made me cry!

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-is-dead.html

This is so painful to read. I only blog once every blue moon but this is one of my favourite sites and I am darn well gonna steal someone else's words because they are amazing!

resolutions

Good point! I generally feel like I am not quite doing enough (with God, family, hobbies, interests, etc...) I think learning contentness is more satisfying than trying only one area and having to forget the rest as a result. I found some new years resolutions by Jonathan Edwards (the theologian rather than the jumper) some were a bit weird but some were great!

1. Resolved, If ever I shall fall and grow dull, so as to neglect to keep any part of these Resolutions, to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself again. 

5. Resolved, Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can. 

6. Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live. 

7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. 

17. Resolved, That I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die 

18. Resolved, To live so, at all times, as I think is best in my most devout frames, and when I have the clearest notions of the things of the gospel, and another world 

22. Resolved, To endeavour to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigour, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of, or can bring myself to exert, in any way that can be thought of 

28. Resolved, To study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same 

?. Resolved, To inquire every night, as I am going to bed, wherein I have been negligent,—what sin I have committed 

41. Resolved, to ask myself, at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly, in any respect, have done better 

6. Resolved, Never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be 

67. Resolved, After afflictions, to inquire, what I am the better for them; what good I have got by them; and, what I might have got by them 

69. Resolved, Always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it