Writing As A Form Of Therapy

[Former-Member]

Hi @Silenus I think writing is awesome! I like writing on these forums and I like to make a private journal of my writings as well. It serves me well when I have no one to turn to.

[HenryX]

Hello  @MDT ,

Many of your thoughts, expressions and comments remind me of those that I have had and expressed during my life. Often, they are reminiscent of my own previous experience and, in some ways, possibly, or even likely, similarities in personality, style and attributes. You have at times expressed appreciation and pleasure at some of those comparisons. It would also be unrealistic of me not to believe that there may also have been times when what I have stated may have been perceived as challenging. Be that as it may, what I offer is from reflections on my own life, that have often been recalled when I have read some of your comments. The following thoughts are in that realm. And, as always, I am conscious of the three fingers pointing back toward myself. I, also, still have life to live and progress to make, so have to remain cognisant of these thoughts and issues too.

“I think that the choices that have made most impact on my life, are not those from which I have opted out, but rather those where I have taken the risks of opting in, making mistakes and finding out which were sound choices and, which may not have been. It is through this process that I have learned to fine tune my own development and progress.

The need then, was not for me to look for what I did not want or desire, but rather, to consider that for which I most wished and desired.

I have wasted a lot of time in choosing out those things that I did not wish for. The things from which I opted out made absolutely no difference whatsoever in my life. It has only been, by making positive conscious choices, of that for which I wished, that generated progress in my life. It was the results of the sound choices and useful lessons learnt, from errors or 'blind alleys', where I had decided to 'opt in', that provided me with those beneficial results.

It was all too easy filling my time with crossing things out or selecting items from which to 'opt out', rather than using my time, far more effectively and efficiently, searching for that which I most wanted and then actively pursuing those goals.”

It is my most sincere wish that these thoughts may assist in generating the momentum in your life, at a very much earlier stage, than when I came to awareness of what was required for my best progress and personal development.

With My Best Wishes

@HenryX 

[Former-Member]

Your poetry is excellent @stufF
I'm really crap at poetry, so good on anybody who can do poems. I'm more the old-fashioned English pros type of writer.

[Former-Member]

Oops I spelled your username wrong @StuF. I wanted to tag you to let you know how good your poem is! i'm an old-fashioned, boring, English pros type of writer. Good on anybody who can do poems.

[StuF]

Thanks @Former-Member 

Nothing wrong with prose! I wish I could write it better myself 🙂

[MDT]

G'day @HenryX
I must say that I don't actually recall writing this but now that you have tagged me and reminded me its interesting to read

That whole idea of fine tuning my own progress is so fascinating I must say. I think, as it turns out, that is what I have been doing after all...

This line I remember writing though: " It has only been, by making positive conscious choices, of that for which I wished, that generated progress in my life. "
I distinctly remember thinking this. Actively thinking it while typing.

I still agree with it. Even the second part about bad choices - at least they were choices I made.
The overall point is of course that I made choices. That's a totally different realm from the realm of being thrust into other situations, not of my making or decision.

"It was all too easy filling my time with crossing things out or selecting items from which to 'opt out', rather than using my time, far more effectively and efficiently, searching for that which I most wanted and then actively pursuing those goals."

This also could not have come at a better time.

You are very wise Henry the Tenth. Thanks for bringing me back to this. I really appreciate it 🙂

[Meowmy]

An empty page

An idle afternoon

Then I know it's purpose

To wind back time

Never enough to fulfill

There are always regrets

Don't be sad

Hold on tight 

[petrichor]

When my world stands still

My garden, my sanctuary

No feelings of pain 

The beauty of leaving

My reality behind

There I stand all still

With the pain too high

That I sneak away

To my secret life

Then the glass goes thick 

And there’s no way out

What is real is apart 

From my safe little yard

Voices mute

Feelings fade

Away away

In my secret garden

[petrichor]

when I leave, please know it wasn’t you

i tried to fight and you did too

sometimes life gives you lemons 

but they’re more like bad demons
when it’s time to go

i want you to know

[Shaz51]

Ohh my @petrichor here for you my friend xx 

@Silenus , @Meowmy , @MDT , @StuF , @tyme xxx