For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game - none of them lasts forever. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species' might be owed to a restless few - drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds. Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." Maybe it's a little early - maybe the time is not quite yet - but those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Silently, they orbit the sun, waiting. ~ Erik Wernquist's Wanderers. Words by Carl Sagan ~
"Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” ― August Wilson
And this is all I have to. Work and one really really good friend that is always there for me. I am trying to talk her into working for me. Lol
Most women say there is no greater pain than to bear a child. I say there's no greater pain than to bury one.
"Well into my procreating years I am, so far, voluntarily childless, having squandered my biological resources reading and writing, doing research, helping out friends and students, and jogging in circles, ignoring the solemn imperative to spread my genes. By Darwinian standards I am a horrible mistake, a pathetic loser, not one iota less than if I were a card-carrying member of Queer Nation. But I am happy to be that way, and if my genes don't like it, they can go jump in the lake." ~ Steven Pinker ~
No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people says it all. David Avacado Wolfe
Nice ^^^^ You can tell the character of a person by what they do when nobody is watching!! --- I have no idea who said that but it sounded good so I wrote it!!!