A Pen Of Love, Ink Of Happiness And Written On Your Heart

Written on my heart is such a beautiful line. I saw it in a death notice of a lady who died and one of her coworkers said she had such a good heart and soul and that being around her was like having something written on his heart. What a lovely saying.

Can you go back in your life experiences and think about at least two people other than your parents and possibly your siblings who have touched your heart in many ways. We expect our parents and our brothers and or sisters to at one time or another, to stroke our feelings. If we are lucky, we do experience that with our families now and then or many times. We remember those precious moments as good memories and we treasure them.

Meeting someone in your life other than your spouse or significant other is a moment in time we value. Meeting a stranger in our life who designates us as their friend and one day you realize that maybe something they have done becomes written on your heart. Young children in school will have a special and dear teacher who sees something rare in them and in turn nurtures them and she or he becomes written on this child’s heart, forever There is a saying I made up. It is honor is the highest we can attain. H.L.Mencken said “honor is the morality of superior men and women.” When we meet special people and they honor us with their attention and love, we should cherish that as a ‘written on our heart’

 possession, more valuable than something material. We are blessed to know these people who come in our lives not as a relative, but as an honored guest.

I have met some of these special people through the years and I have mentioned them in articles I have had published. Sometimes, I feel like I have been chosen by them so they can care about me in a special way and I in my special way have chosen them to be my dear friends.

Think about your life and see if you can come up with at least five of them, other than Mom,Dad and your siblings. Write down how they touched you and your life and what it has meant to you as the years rolled by. Was it a teacher or a professor, was it someone you worked with, was it a neighbor, a boyfriend or a girlfriend or someone who you met on the Internet? Do you keep in contact with them or are they just a memory?

My extra special one was Dr.Z. John Levay who I first met in 1968 when I went back to school to get a college degree. He instilled in me a faith of high degree when he said on my first essay paper, a test and I had not taken a test for 17 years. He wrote “Mrs.Clayman, you can and will do better.” This became a lifelong message to me to try anything I wanted and mainly to excel in it.

I tried so many things, ballroom dancing, the writing of many articles on ballroom dancing and life in general, traveling to Europe three times, going on a cruise three times and having the courage to online publish my stories and articles. He with that one line written in a test booklet, blue in color which is my favorite color instilled in me the excitement to accomplish beyond my wildest dreams at age thirty-four.

Words are powerful and they have always said that words can cause wars and they have done so. Words can heal, words can probably end wars and words can bring a spark to a mind that may have done not much up to now. I have had many readers of my stories tell me that I gave them the awareness to try ballroom dancing and from that they went on to trying other endeavors.  Ernest Hemingway said “courage is grace under pressure.”

 Jeannie in California said my dancing encouragement gave her the thoughts that at age seventy-nine, she could start to take dancing lessons and that is what she did about eight years ago. She went on to excel in it and she danced in competitions and shows at over eighty and was mighty excellent in doing it.

So she and I never met, but I gave her spirit and spirit is what she found she had.

I felt good when I heard this and I know that my words were written on her heart as the words of Dr. Levay were to me and he too was written on my heart and they have stayed written there all these forty-five years later and never will they be obliterated. They are carved with a pen of love and they are  inscribed with the ink of happiness in what he did for me that wintery month of March 1968 when an almost thirty-four year old took her ballpoint pen and started to write the answers to five essay questions of Psychology 101 over in Catonsville, Maryland at the college. When I finished the test, I figured if I got a C that would be plenty good enough for me, having not studied or gone to school for seventeen years. I was wrong, he gave me a B and I was thrilled and every test thereafter given by him to me, I got an A or an A+.

This shows that anything we set our hearts to and we really desire, we can accomplish, attain, achieve and accumulate regardless of age

Now days the students take tests on their own computers, so you could say their hearts are pressed on with their fingers when they have a professor or teacher who also inspires them and it is written on their hearts for all eternity.