Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Too many people give up just before the tide turns.
Like a man dying of thirst in the desert, who lays
down to his final rest before seeing the oasis just
beyond the crest of a sand dune.
How sad it is, to have thrown in the towel too early.
What a waste! And to think salvation was so close!
Here's a poem about two unfortunate frogs and how a
determined will to survive saved one of them.
Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view.
"We'll drown," he lamented without much ado,
and with a last despairing cry, he flung up his legs
and said "Goodbye."
Said the other frog with a steadfast grin,
"I can't get out but I won't give in,
I'll just swim around till my strength is spent,
then I'll die the more content." Bravely he swam to
work his scheme,
and his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter,
the more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
and out of the bowl he gaily hopped.
What is the moral? It's easily found...
If you can't hop out, keep swimming around!
How easy it is to just give up, to see the world
through a doomsday screen and abandon it.
Courage and
faith are required to persevere and make the best of
every situation.
If only the other frog had known how simple it was to
get out, I'm sure he wouldn't have given up so easily.
But life is such? we never know how simple some
things really are, though they seem impossible to
achieve.
It is only our faith and optimism that helps carries
us through the most seemingly insurmountable odds.
P.S. Happy Birthday Wayne=)
Like a man dying of thirst in the desert, who lays
down to his final rest before seeing the oasis just
beyond the crest of a sand dune.
How sad it is, to have thrown in the towel too early.
What a waste! And to think salvation was so close!
Here's a poem about two unfortunate frogs and how a
determined will to survive saved one of them.
Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view.
"We'll drown," he lamented without much ado,
and with a last despairing cry, he flung up his legs
and said "Goodbye."
Said the other frog with a steadfast grin,
"I can't get out but I won't give in,
I'll just swim around till my strength is spent,
then I'll die the more content." Bravely he swam to
work his scheme,
and his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter,
the more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
and out of the bowl he gaily hopped.
What is the moral? It's easily found...
If you can't hop out, keep swimming around!
How easy it is to just give up, to see the world
through a doomsday screen and abandon it.
Courage and
faith are required to persevere and make the best of
every situation.
If only the other frog had known how simple it was to
get out, I'm sure he wouldn't have given up so easily.
But life is such? we never know how simple some
things really are, though they seem impossible to
achieve.
It is only our faith and optimism that helps carries
us through the most seemingly insurmountable odds.
P.S. Happy Birthday Wayne=)
Are You Ga(me)?, 11:56 AM.
