Let's start the week with....

....a 'they say' moment.  (Aye, that's me bucking the usual trend, again.) 

They say 'Attack is the best form of defence.' But just because they say this, it isn't always true. Nothing new there, then!  The very best form of defence is actually a blank refusal to be on the defensive. Those who are open, generous and fair, those who act with integrity and honour, the people who are sensitive and understanding, why should they ever want to attack?  

 

 

If someone would be misguided enough to attack them, their best form of defence would be to say something like, 'Hey, what's your problem? Shall we talk?'

Your kindness is your greatest asset.

 

 

 

 

Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.

Don't people just love....

.....speeches and soliloquies, announcements and orations. They elect, for example, politicians on the strength of their ability to make eloquent points. All of us with an IQ higher than the room temperature know that none of them will ever act on their promises, so we figure we may as well just vote for the ones who sound good.

 

 

Yet some words really do have meaning. And that's why they should be used sparingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyday you wait is another day you won’t get back.

I have it on good authority that....

....Facebook doesn't have a 'dislike' button. And, apparently, you can't select various people from your sphere of acquaintanceship and invite them to become your enemies. It is simply not set up as a platform for argument.  Most postings involve people offering each other support of some kind. 

 

 

Even in what we used to call the 'real world', conflict is often avoided.  There are times when you may have to express a view very strongly, but before doing so try being bland and polite. It may just do the trick.

Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

Our heroes and heroines....

..... can rarely do wrong in our eyes. Once we have elevated them in our estimation, we become deeply reluctant to demote a demi-god. Sometimes, we can be similarly romantic about other things in our lives; friends, companions, family members. If we respect them ever, we respect them forever.

 

 

 

 

Yet we are all human. None of us is impeccable or infallible.

I have it on good....

.....authority - well, good(ish) - that there are internationally acclaimed psychics who can reliably tell you whether you are thinking of a square, a circle, a cross or a triangle. Even if their success rate is not a hundred per cent, they defy the laws of chance if they are accurate sixty per cent of the time.

 

 

Still though, such an ability does not guarantee an infallible understanding of everything that someone else happens to be thinking. You can't expect anyone to be a mind reader.

We praise candour and....

....admire honesty, but just imagine what life would be like if everyone said what they thought. We often fall out with one another quickly and easily enough, even when we know only a tiny fraction of what's going on in someone else's mind. If we could hear the whole unexpurgated version of their opinion and they could hear ours, how could we ever exist again?

 

 

If some truths may very well need to be told; not all truths have to be aired. A little discretion may well take you a long way.

Some dead odd people....

...have an ability to win popularity contests. You want proof? Just take a look at the celebrities in the magazines. Whatever charm most of these folk possess, it is clearly, largely superficial. If they were to be, somehow, shorn of their special status, they might not do so fine and dandy in ordinary society. Meanwhile, wonderful folk with generous hearts, true talents and wise minds, are undiscovered and unacknowledged. What matters is not how good something looks, but how good something truly is.

 

 

Don't let appearances deceive you. What matters is not how attractive an idea or arrangement is... but how good it is!

 

 

 

 

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.