Where the road ends.

"Ultimately love is everything [...] When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it. observe a teenager in love with his car and note the time he will spend admiring it, polishing it, repairing it, tuning it. or an older person with a beloved rose garden, and the time spent pruning and mulching and fertilizing and studying it. So it is when we love children; we spend time admiring them and caring for them. we give them our time.

Good discipline required time."

"What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. [...] It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn."

what we are..

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Sometimes I wonder how transparent I am to someone. It frightens me to meet someone who can read my thoughts, actions, feelings so well. I am nothing new. I am no surprise.

But it's that feeling of new which exhilarates us to take risks and change.

So if I'm not new, I'm not quite exhilarating, no risks need to be taken, no changes need to be made. Is that good? I don't know.

I wish you were transparent to me. No changes made, no risks taken.

just.. safe.