I was mock cleaning this weekend (you know, moving piles from one place to another) and I came across an article I'd saved entitled "Be fabulously disgraceful at 70". The side bar to this article contained a list of '10 temporary things' which I cut out with the intention of creating my own list one day. I haven't quite gotten around to my personalized list yet but there's no rush, the original did just fine:
youth
romantic infactuation
six-pack abs
your job
your troubles
professional importance
relationships
debt
hemmorrhoids
life itself
I'm curious, then, what could be thought of as permanent things...
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I think there is something to be said that the only thing that is permanent, the only thing you really have, are your actions.
By the way, I love your blog, and I think your word is much better than all four of Gwen's!
-Laura
Hi Becca,
Love the list, and at my age temporary becomes all to real.
Really enjoyed "Paris" I`ve been there , ie both phycologically and physically....same view from Montmarte, (i think thats neat).
The blind man in the subway, were all blind at times to lifes beauty and potential,that its a gift, that there is light at the end of the tunnel, the trick is to have the courage to ask for help, as he might have, of all virtues "hope" the one to hang tight to.
Patrick
As you said the truly temporary thing is life. Perhaps some of the most permanent things are negative ones, the footprints that we leave on the planet - consuming too much of everything. Another permanent thing is the children that we leave behind, who in turn may leave behind their own dna. The love and compassion, pride, joy, they evoke within us is very permanent - to a parent's existance anyway.
Plant trees that produce seeds that may be carried anywhere to grow again.
I'm displaying my preference for the concrete rather than the abstract:)
I don't agree with L that our actions are permanent, these too are very temporal. Should this statement be refined I could be persuaded to agree.
i dont understand why it says annon ,, and then your name is at the bottom?
i think hurting someone is permanent. Becasuse around the time they begin to get over it. Is the time you start to remember it.
causing someone pain will always live in one of you .
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