Absolute Truth

 

Learning

I'm slowly learning that even if I react, it won't change anything, it won't make people suddenly love and respect me, it won't magically change their minds.

Sometimes it's better to just let things be, let people go, don't fight for closure, don't ask for explanations, don't chase answers and don't expect people to understand where you're coming from.

I'm slowly learning that life is better lived when you don't center it on what's happening around you and center it on what's happening inside you instead.

Rania Naim 

Source: Facebook - Bring Side

Seasons of Life

I showed up for people when I was tired.

I showed up for people when I was broke.

I showed up for people when I was hurt.

I showed up for people when I needed someone to show up for me.

I showed up for people that I knew wouldn’t show up for me if the tables were turned.

THAT is why I will never water down or apologize for the season of life I’m in now!

You don’t know the half of what it took to get here.

Unknown

Source: Facebook - Diary of a broken woman

Art: Aiko Sakamoto

Kristofferson

 

Kristofferson didn’t seem to know how to do anything but spend himself. He was just 5-foot-10 or so and 165 pounds, but at Pomona he made the varsity as an end and a linebacker — while he also commanded his ROTC battalion, made Phi Beta Kappa studying literature and won prizes in a short story contest sponsored by the Atlantic. In his summers, he beefed up for football on brutal construction gigs such as dredging on Wake Island in the Pacific and working for a railroad in Alaska as a firefighter. When he was pushed to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, Kristofferson sought a recommendation from a philosophy professor, who talked to the football coach, Jesse Cone. That resulted in the following exchange, as memorialized by Pomona’s College magazine.

“Well, Kris really isn’t very tall,” Cone replied. “And he isn’t really very strong. And really, he’s not very fast.” The coach thought for another moment and added, “Kris is a football player by the will of Kris Kristofferson, not by the will of God.”

“I imagined myself into a pretty full life,” Kristofferson told NPR’s “Fresh Air” in 1999. “I was certainly not equipped, by God, to be a football player, but I got to be one. And I got to be a Ranger and a paratrooper and a helicopter pilot, you know, and a boxer and a lot of things that I don’t think I was built to do. I just imagined ’em.”

... mopping floors and smelling oil after rejecting his Army commission, Kristofferson was in debt, going through an early divorce and had basically lost everything. Yet “I never felt like I was failing,” Kristofferson told Hawke years later. “What is even more difficult than failure is when you are perceived as a ‘success’ and you are failing,” he added.

- from WaPo article by Sally Jenkins

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