Friday, September 11, 2015

1408 INTRO TO MY INEXPERIENCED ADVENTURES INTO PARENTING Part 41

2015
If you ask:  Annie, how could your vacation have been
Idyllic if perfection does not exist?
I'd need time to think before defining
What idyllic has come to mean to me:
As defined by what I know of life, idyllic suggests that
No matter how many hurtles fate casts in my path
My heart and eye remain trained on achieving
A long range goal, which based in personsal growth, is sure to offer
Your spirit and mine reason to experience clear headed joy, over time

Sadly, I've watched life pull loved ones apart for
Many reasons, and here's why I think that's true:
Each person processes a new experience, based in
Whatever has been experienced in the past, and
As no life experience is exactly the same as any other ...
A new experience which is offered to both
May turn my pleasure center on while turning yours off, and
The difference in our decision-making process will
Be due to whatever you or I have experienced, before
So, if I've already processed through an experience that
You've not or vise versa, it stands to reason that
You (or I) may need to spend more time
Diving for insight into how our unique experience
Differs from any that either of us has ever known before, and
Not until insight into defining how this
Unique experience, which, standing differently from any we've
Hungered to enjoy, speaks to us both will
The wings of personal growth lift both spirits so high as to
Leave our doubting Thomas's questioning why
It took so long to clear yesteryear's cobwebs out of both minds
Then, when we feel the time is ripe to seek each other out
You'll find my smile sunning itself in a peaceful setting
Perhaps on a park bench, where, guided by
Patience born of strings of insight, I'll await
Your timely arrival, once your mindset has achieved
A level of personal growth in an arena that
Had once felt less grounded in emotional safety than
Will be true once personal growth and peace of mind
Have reason to walk neath a clear blue sky, hand in hand ...
And though whatever we build may not achieve perfection
That which personal growth will have strived to enjoy, peaceably
Will somehow feel idyllic to both ...
And speaking as one whose flexibility has
Tweaked countless plans until
That which is experienced pleasures both sides
Now you know why idyllic and perfection are not
One and the same to an eye trained to
Seek insight into bettering my sense of clarity, concerning
How best to accept certain limitations as dictated by
Fate, choice and reality until intuition tweaks a plan
Just enough so as not to throw the baby out with the bath water...
BTW:  I did not acquire these insights during
My idyllic family vacation ...
I enjoyed an idyllic family vacation because
Insights, such as these, have brightened my path for many a year ...

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