Fortune
What will the day be like today? The one I decide. As someone wisely said, no matter whether your glass is full or empty, be glad you have it at all.
If I am not successful, I will say that this is a glove thrown by evil destiny that I must playfully take and courageously face in a duel. If the gifts of fortune fall, I will be most grateful. If I run out of money, I’ll pretend that “no-money” adorns the artistic personality I hope I am – after all, I am jokingly saying and saying that poverty and boredom are some of the greatest teachers of life and stimulants of creativity.
If life makes me smile, I won’t save smiles. If the tears come, I will let myself cry and maybe give myself a little self-pity, but only for a very short time. If I want to get lazy, I’ll do it – I haven’t been sleeping and tidying up at home since six in the morning, and I can have a rest for one or two hours. If I want some champagne, this is a great opportunity for me today – we are all alive and well and it’s weekend.
If I want to buy a one-way ticket, I will have to turn my head for a long time where would I want to get stuck. But maybe I know.
When life starts to become sad or shows its gray side, or I just want to escape reality, I often dream of living for half a year in an abandoned Venice. I can even see how it looks, I smell its smell, hear the history of the house that is trying to tell me the 17th-century floor’s boards creaking beneath my feet, supported by long, heavy gold-damask curtains… I am even beginning to like exquisitely antique glass chandelier, overloaded with details. While it’s still a mystery to me, how to remove the dust from those glass flowers, tubers and elaborate curls without fail. And won’t that chandelier really fall on my head – how does this amazing but unknown glass cacophony hang in the ceiling at all?
I realize that I am dreaming here too long sitting in the terrace because the evening is cold enough. Anyway, any day is going as we want it to.
© Fortune, 2020
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Do you believe that we are able to create our destiny?
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Yes
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No
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What do you feel your glass with. Do you feel it with songs? Do you feel it with happiness? Life is what we make it.
Ah the glass half empty or half full question.
Are you an optimist (glass half full)
or a pessimist (glass half empty)
I prefer proactive. When the glass is empty I fill it!
Perfect. I think the tendency to think optimistically or more pessimistically is a certain personality trait.
thanks – i do agree the tendency is wholly a personality trait!
I truly believe that we can be the masters of our own destiny. Look how it worked out for me. I chose to give up on a bad marriage and do what my mom wanted to bring her back to her homeland and in Latvia met my soul mate. Then when he passed I knew it was time to head for home the U.S.
The most important that you feel happy whenever you are.
There are so many factors that get thrown in to make or mar our life.
Of course, but still how we deal with all that depends on us. I think, we always have at least two ways to go, not one.
Lovely image, our life is ours for the taking.
It is given to us so we should act carefully and responsibly with our life.