26-01-2018, 06:04 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by
Robert Jnr.
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Today I, in a contrary way of thinking, touched cloth, with an unknowable mystery.
I am 70 years old shortly. I can easily recall my life and times for nearly the whole span. Take for example the last 60 years where have they gone? how are they measured ? Do they still exist in a parallel structure beyond our understanding? Was it all in my mind and purely a gigantic hallucination designed just for me?
Today I had one of those moments; just a split second when everything made sense.
Have you had just a moment when you understood your place in this existence. Out of the blue I had such a moment when I stood back & knew everything in heaven & on earth. Then it was gone, too much for my puny self to retain.
Absolutely. It started when a certain young Miss took to holding my hand when she were twelve, and about five years later I started to feel this sort of rubbing sensation on the top of my head. Eventually after several decades I realised it was her thumb print.
In other words I know my place, it just took me a while to work it out.
Originally Posted by
Jem
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It’s a strange thing with some men, including meself, they seem to have trouble saying the word ‘Love’ when it has romantic attachments, no problem saying I love horses or beer, but having to say ‘I love you’ sort of sticks to the tongue and won’t come out.
I remember an episode of the Simpsons when Madge forces Homer to tell her he loved her in front of his mates in the bar, God I really sympathised with him, it was a nearly the death of him.
I've never suffered that problem, not even when surrounded by other mens. I did work with a guy once who would sometimes get 'phoned by his fiancé. His end of the end of the conversation would be, Yes I do ... of course I do ... you know I do ... I can't say it ... yes I do ... no I can't say it .. yes I do, really ... no, I can't say it ...
FFS. With me it would be, I love you, and the guys nearby would shout out, we love you too Missus Fruitcake.
As for the mediation bit, I've had to do that with different parts of the family, but there was never a risk of it degenerating into violence.
I don't know what I would have done in that situation.