Enough about me; how are all of you out there doing this fine evening?
The world is a marvelous place to be and it’s the only game in town; so let’s all be thankful we are here.
Illusions and or delusions are not the same thing, but you knew that?
Let’s examine each word separately, okey dokey?
Illusions are, oops I was wrong, they are the same thing!
But to be fair I have been wrong before. I sit corrected.
An illusion is a delusion, a false impression, a misapprehension, it also could be a fantasy, a daydream, a figment of your imagination, chimera (Now see, I thought that was our outdoor ceramic fireplace, guess not! Or perhaps both?) or a trick, deception, magic (Now we are talking, who doesn’t love magic?) and artifice (Now I learned something it’s a slight of hand, also an illusion.) semblance, appearance, feeling, sensation, sense, an idea or an effect!
Whew! How could one gal be so wrong… but let’s admit that researching the word’s meaning has me now able to know those new things and for that hooray!
As we grow physically and mentally over the years learning is an important part of that growth. And so to me it is refreshing to know that there is still so much for me to find out about… with an open mind I am sure like the rest of you we can all become more knowledgeable.
Causes for people are abundant and all are worthy, but as anyone who knows me know I do not sign petitions, due to my horrid experience as a seventeen years old. Thinking I was signing a petition to end the Viet Nam War and to bring our soldiers home. Well, it turned out to be a petition for the SDS, which was the organization of Students for a Democratic Society, sounded harmless to my non-political brain, and it was a big oops!
They were a radical far left wing group, here’s more info on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society
The FBI arrived at our home to question me; I suppose I was quite convincing with my stupidity about such things… thus my no petition signing rule ‘nevermore’, yep a quote by Poe, since that is how I felt after in that very dark place of scary!
So please dear friends of many caring righteous causes please, please understand, when you have an impression, not a false one, a real one, made on you at that impressionable age it does have an amazing effect on how you react through most of your life. Geez, who knew we would come full circle?
All of us have so-called demons that make us who we are, oh alright, perhaps not demons but memories that cause us to act as we do our modeling of our youthful days.
Some are happy and some are horrifying… like mine from my experience of going to the VA hospital in D.C. as a child to visit my brother, all those amputees and horrendous injuries, and no one to explain how or why they had them…That I do believe molded me into hating war, not soldiers, but the war, wars…deaths, old relatives, funerals…sitting Shiva…Oh but there were happy times too with childhood friends, ice skating, dancing school, choir, swimming, camp, vacations and all types of travel, family get-togethers etc…and they should more than outweigh the bad/sad, but sometimes one overshadows the other, that is when dates come up.
And February has a lot that are mixed bags, that is happy/sad, happy/sad on and on…for me… hopefully NOT for you.
I will not miss it until next year that is…
Five more days and it will be done.
Now this is downright wrong it all came back to me!
Only thing I can think of is that this is MY BLOG and on that note a GIANT LOL TO ALL!
My intentions were seriously going to be in the right direction. But you know something; most don’t like anyone else to talk about them, hmm? So I am safer talking about me… that’s my story and I am sticking to it! So there, again I just stuck my adult tongue out at you…so I guess it missed my cheek tonight, hmm?
Now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share them with whomever you care to and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!