Thought and Poem

Thought and Poem – August 19, 2014

You know how they say, “Don’t bother crying over spilled milk?” I mean really, you can’t do much about it, except to mop it up. Well, I think it is the same when it comes to people. You can’t get everyone you meet to like you in the way you want them too. So why do we get upset when someone we “want” to like us doesn’t want to like us?

I’m not talking boy/girl relationships, I am talking about families. You have Moms and Dads, brothers and sisters. For some reason and at some point, you find yourself drifting away in your relationship with them, and you try with everything you can think of to keep your emotional boat from drifting out any further. The more you try, they more you drift. Why is that? If “blood is thicker than water,” shouldn’t we be a lot closer?

Now, if you spilled milk on the floor, after it is wiped up, you have less milk…but you have a clean floor. A floor that needed to washed anyway, but you may not have wanted to have to do it when a hot meal was on the table and you were hungry. But when it comes to fixing families and how they can drift apart, now this is a hard thing to fix. Sometimes you can’t change anything. You don’t like it…but you still have to move on.

You would think that moving on and away from someone who doesn’t want to be part of your life, family or not, should be an easy thing to do. Just walk away. But, it is NOT that simple, especially when you are drawn out of love to want to be closer. Our hearts have a way of storing the bags of pains we feel when someone rejects us and our efforts. Unfortunately, unlike the milk, after we wash the floor, we pour ourselves another glass of milk, with families, we need to go on with life as if nothing happened and try to mask the rejection by finding something else to do or finding someone else to share our love with. Sigh, spilled milk is an easy fix. Families…well, not so much.

What about you? When you want to draw close to someone and they don’t desire the same, what do you do to help yourself move on from the situation? Share your thoughts with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Love to the Highest Degree

When love directs every step we take,
Every breath; each moment we are awake,
It will guide our hearts,
To live our lives to the fullest; never failing to do our part.

To share the joys we have to share;
To leave our smiles everywhere.
Then we will have all the memories we will need,
To guide us through the times when we are weak.

So whether you are a husband or a wife,
Or whether you are the children of those who share married life,
Or work a job, or are unemployed,
Love from our heart helps us to remember our joys.

We can love our dogs and cats,
And although these do love us back,
We can have even greater joys in life,
If we reach out and endeavor to receive love in its greatest light.

Never should we fail to open our hearts,
And always remember to offer the best we can give from the start,
To all we meet, to ourselves, and to our families,
Then you will reap all the joys life has to offer and you will experience love to the highest degree.

Jeanne Claire Probst