Monday, July 7, 2014

"You are grateful for the small pleasures of life."

''You are coming into your own power - enjoy!" Sage advice, but not profound.
"Nothing's perfect." Again, a bit trite.
"Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body." Here we go again, to me this is what I have been saying for at least twenty years... more most likely!
"A love relationship takes on added dimension." Yep, love has a way of continuing on, evolving as it grows... or slows, or goes...
"Wish you a good health." Nice sentiment, true? This is not proper English, "a good health". Now you know why I am so grammatically incorrect, due to reading too many fortune cookies! HA!

I chose the entitled one due to how we have decided to think, and believe me it is quite a positive way to think of life...and simplistic and redundant and also, dare I say, trite?

Those comments of mine sound like I am rather full of myself, but let's get real, who here has not heard those supposed fortune cookies fortunes before? Oh, they are real. The China City folks gave us six, since they seem to like us good customers and their food is great! But even though I enjoy using the fortunes for many blogs' topics I do so enjoy discussing them, and I think you have done this too? 

Or have you read so many quotes from people's idols that they felt were brilliant, but to me they all were spewing common sense!
Where has that gone, re: common sense, truly?
That has been one of many peeves of mine, and you all know I have many!

I have let myself get caught up in political situations, and even signed a petition foolishly, but once its done its done!
Anyone who has been reading this for any length of time might remember my relaying a pretty enormous  stupid mistake that I made as a teenager of around fifteen years old and being not so politically astute or savvy.
So when at one of the Paramus Malls, if I recall, The Bergan Mall, a group had a petition to sign to stop the Vietnam War, and so I signed it! I had lost friends and others were being sent in in multitudes, it was our war and we all felt one way or the another about it. But with me, with a brother who was in the Air Force as a medic in Korea, and stationed in Seoul during that war, with he being nineteen years my senior, he ended up getting PTSD, but then it was called something else, and ended up going in and out of VA hospitals for the rest of his life, in fact that is where he died eight years ago in 2006, he was not quite seventy-five! Any-who, that is why I was anti-war for the soldiers sakes in my mind.
So I signed that petition without a second thought.
( I was marred emotionally by being taken to VA hospitals at the age of just five years old and seeing all those horror stories and of course not being told about the why..., not unlike in the movie, Born on the 4th of July with Tom Cruise...:https://www.yahoo.com/movies/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july , but this was about the Vietnam War)

It was much later on when we had FBI knocking on our door of my parents Paramus home that I found out that the "Students for a Democratic Society", were not at all what I thought they were!
Here is info on why this was a very bad idea to do: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569902/Students-for-a-Democratic-Society-SDS

So one would think that something so trying and shocking; I almost said traumatic, but that would be overkill, poor choice of words, please forgive...  that at least that would have been etched into my brain for all these nearly fifty years, wouldn't one?

So no, Oops I did it again!
And no, so far no alphabet soup federal agencies are knocking at our door, but grief for me taking a stand on something I should have had more info on before going so gun-ho, oops, not my type of usual references the Peace-nick that I have been proudly accused of all these years....
So in closing, I erased my involvement, in techno speak, deleted, but as we all know that it is still there in Cyberspace somewhere to my foolish sad self's knowledge!  Known forever more as another of Tobi's Folly's!

Sure I do believe in things with all my heart, but taking that next step to sign into action a legal document or even a petition, is earth shattering in the form of a known to all a commitment with taking a stand... looking back, I still feel the same as I did, both generational mes so in my strong opinionated forum here I will continue to reside with pride, since it appears to be my safest bet...

On that note of whatever floats your boat, 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 those overages and we will
too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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