Old souls learn to ride the ups and downs of life’s storms, the stagnant die young.
photo by Daria Rudyk - on Unsplash for Poets and Storytellers United (Weekly Scribblings #4: New Tricks, where Rommy asks us to consider the phrase “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, and express any thoughts we might have on it in either poetry or prose form.)
Truth. BAM!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ron.
DeleteSo much truth in these words. Proud to be an old soul.
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteBrief and to the point well taken!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bev.
DeleteInteresting write✏
ReplyDeleteHappy you dropped by to read mine Magaly
Much❤love
Thank you, Gillena.
DeleteIt is sad to think that once playing meant going outside and having a good time with friends or the neighbors dog. Now it is but staring a phone not knowing whether its raining or the sun is shining.
ReplyDeleteThat's a shame.
DeleteA fun little ditty, Magaly. Well, I sure did not die young. I tell folk I am ready to die if need be, I've done all I need to do and most of all I like and want to do. But until then I'll do some more.
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Here for doing more, Jim!
DeleteSo true!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kim.
DeleteNo one has time for dying ... o.o
ReplyDeleteWay too much work.
Deleteaction leads to perfection
ReplyDeleteIs that so? How extraordinary.
DeleteThey ride those ups and downs like world class surfers. If you listen closely you can hear them telling you to jump right in because the water's fine.
ReplyDelete*splash!*
DeleteLovely, wise words.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Myrna.
DeleteLovely American sentence – and you've arrived at a new truth, made all the more pointed in that final phrase.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rosemary.
DeleteGoodness there is a whole book in that one sentence.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susie!
DeleteThank you for this reminder. That must be why my grandfather lived into his 90's.
ReplyDeleteAh!
DeleteHow absolutely true. And now that I'm old and still riding the ups and downs, still learning life, still reaching, I am grateful I did not become stagnant. Think what I would have missed. The good, the bad, but mostly simply the knowledge I have gained.
ReplyDeleteI, too, am glad that we've moved enough, done enough... to understand that we must continue to do more to live.
DeleteTrue dat!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sarah.
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