Why do people say this?
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From your original post--it sure looked like it came from my comments--happy to hear it is not just from me. Nothing smug or condescending behind my post--you would know it if it was. I find it interesting though that the reaction is a negative one--why is that? Time is a teacher...that is what those words mean. Good, bad, or somewhere in between...time is a teacher.
...and she bursts into song with the first of a series of songs on Time!
Time, time, time
See what's become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Hear the Salvation Army band
Down by the riverside
It's bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Hang onto your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around
The grass is high
The fields are ripe
It's the springtime of my life
Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?
Funny how my memory skips
While looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime
I look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Look around
Leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground
Time, time, time
See what's become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Hear the Salvation Army band
Down by the riverside
It's bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Hang onto your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around
The grass is high
The fields are ripe
It's the springtime of my life
Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?
Funny how my memory skips
While looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime
I look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Look around
Leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground
Interestingly enough, the sermon at church last Sunday talked alot about how people change over time. He gave examples of himself....things he thought were okay at one time in his life that he no longer saw as okay, etc. He also talked about how he had changed in his religion, too. He still believed the basic things, but different scriptures seemed to hold different meanings now than he had seen in them previously, etc.
None of that is relevant to this thread, I just thought it was interesting in the timing!!
Time and circumstances do change people. Just things that my parents used to say that I would, at least inwardly, roll my eyes at, started making sense once I had children of my own. Not that I necessarily thought everything they said all of a sudden were right, but I could see their point of view much better. And, I even do agree with them more often than I would have ever thought years ago!
None of that is relevant to this thread, I just thought it was interesting in the timing!!
Time and circumstances do change people. Just things that my parents used to say that I would, at least inwardly, roll my eyes at, started making sense once I had children of my own. Not that I necessarily thought everything they said all of a sudden were right, but I could see their point of view much better. And, I even do agree with them more often than I would have ever thought years ago!
Very true. and thank you.
and if it weren't for all the "I told you so" type relationships (the ones people say will never make it) I wouldn't appreciate and respect this relationship as I do now. So with every dark cloud there really is a silver lining and a lesson to be learned from it. Heartbreak and disappointment were nessecary to bring me to this point.
and if it weren't for all the "I told you so" type relationships (the ones people say will never make it) I wouldn't appreciate and respect this relationship as I do now. So with every dark cloud there really is a silver lining and a lesson to be learned from it. Heartbreak and disappointment were nessecary to bring me to this point.
well, if we're going to sing:
You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
May be a song way before any of your generations!
You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
May be a song way before any of your generations!