The years that are gone seem like dreams — if one might go on sleeping and dreaming — but to wake up and find — oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life. — Kate Chopin
There was a time that I was more than content to wallow in denial. Hell, I was even in denial about being in denial. It can be comfortable, but like all things that are comfortable, you aren’t really growing in that situation. And it does no good to live in the past. Remember the past, learn from it and embrace your future and present. Go ahead and live a little. It’ll be okay.
I must agree that it is far better to suffer the pain and inconvenience of seeking out the truth than to dream the dream of collective ignorance. Pass the caffeine, please.
Yes, caffeine would be nice, very nice. Good to see you posting!
-kh
Reminds me of Thoreau’s quote (to paraphrase)
I wish to live deliberately, so that at the end of my days, I will not discover I had not really lived.
I like your take on it- “Go ahead and live a little. It’ll be okay.”
so why am I sitting in front of this darn computer?
She’s good, that Kate.
I like it. We should all embrace the future rather than live in the past. Now, go get your caffeine!
UH Excuse me what happen to the Page number of the quote????