Never criticize someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes, that way, when you criticize them, they won’t be able to hear you from that far away plus, you’ll have their shoes.
JusJoJan # 23; One liner Wednesday
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 22nd is brought to you by Pamela! Click here to find her last post and say hi while you’re there! Pamela’s word for our prompt today is “curiosity.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
Touching and feeling
Exploring and finding
Only our curiosity
Can bring the answers
We seek to learn here
The world is a boring place
For the unimaginative one
For without the urge to explore
And giving in to our curiosity
We would be no better than
All the inanimate objects around us
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 21st is brought to you by Lady Lee! Click here to find her last Just Jot it January post and say hi while you’re there! Lady Lee’s word for our prompt today is “echo.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
Echoes from yesterday
Life sometimes seems a replay of itself. We see and feel that the happening of today are the same as that of yesterday. This echo from our past has a dejá vu effect on our minds. Specially when we see what our next generation is going through. The basic problems that we faced in our growing up years are the same that the people today are facing. Especially in the emotional context. The insecurity and other challenges we faced are the same today. Theses echoes from our past do remind us of our own feelings back then. Reliving the past, one thing becomes very clear. We all go through a certain set of issues in our lives which make and shape our personality. These twists and turns of the fate bring us to this present point in our lives. And we are a product of our past life. So the advice I give to my kids is that face up to life’s challenges as they will toughen you up for what is coming ahead. Echoes from the past are a reminder that we also were there and how we overcame our troubles, trials and tribulations to get here.
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 20th is brought to you by Jill! Click here to find her last post and say hi while you’re there! Jill’s word for our prompt today is “serendipity.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
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We have seen a lot of movies where through unforeseen and unusual incidents, the story path ends in a happy circumstance. We call this serendipity. Does it actually happen in real life? We have to believe that it does! There are quite a few incidents where some lucky chance resulted in a fortunate ending for most of at some point in our lives. It maybe something quite small or may have very significant importance in our lives. Most of us call it our good luck. Some think of it as destiny.
Believing in serendipity, keeps the magic alive. We all need to believe in a bit of magic to keep the life being mundane and ordinary.
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Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “television.” Talk about your favorite show, past, present, or future, or about the apparatus itself. Enjoy!
Nopes, thank you!
I don’t enjoy watching television these days. I have much better things to do with my time. In the good old days, that is, when I was younger,I did enjoy some of the tv programs but now it seems to be more of the same. I absolutely don’t want to watch any news related programs and same about the rest of the entertainment. I would rather write my blog or read a book. I would even prefer to do my jigsaw puzzle than watch television.
And for my entertainment I like to catch a movie. Specially with family or besties. I even enjoy going on my own, specially if it’s a movie that only I have a taste for.
So thanks but no, thanks. I rather not watch television
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 18th is brought to you by Di! Click here to find her last post and say hi while you’re there! Di’s word for our prompt today is “companionship.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
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Who would be your best friend? The companionship that you would desire above all other? Who else but you yourself! In life you get many opportunities to make friends. You have your family, your significant other and then the married people have their spouses. All can be great companions. But in all this, if you are not a true friend to yourself, the others are not going to fill the gap which can only be filled by our own self love. This love of ours need to be accepting of our personality, our deficiencies and positive traits.
The alone time need not be a lonely time, if we provide company to ourselves. Be supportive of your own decisions, and not to be your own worse enemy. I hope that I am making some sense here, but I want to express this thing clearly. If you are not going to be your own friend, you will find hard to make other friends. Why? Because if we accept our own self, with all our flaws the message we project to others is of a positive nature. But if we are in conflict with ourselves, the image projected is negative. We come across as a person who is forever in need of assurance and confidence boosting. Self love is the key to living a satisfying life.
So be your own faithful, loving and understanding companion.
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 17th is brought to you by John Holton! Click here to find his last post and say hi while you’re there! John’s word for our prompt today is “inch.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
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Give an inch and they take a mile!
And also need you to take it with a smile
If you are not willing, you are a grinch
If you are open, it is taken without a cinch
Be a doormat and they will walk all over you
Exhibit a strong will and there is resentment against you
There is no pleasing some people and just damp down
The desire to be popular by suppressing your own
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 15th is brought to you by Kelli! Click here to find her last post and say hi while you’re there! Kelli’s word for our prompt today is “Paris.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
Paris reminded me of this song from Modern Talking- 1985. Bells of Paris. Hope you can view. Enjoy!
JusJoJan # 15
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 14th is brought to you by Janet! Click here to find her last post and say hi while you’re there! Janet’s word for our prompt today is “reflection.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
The mirror hanging on the wall
Shows a reflection of a person
Dignified and somber, thin and tall
There is a seriousness in his eyes
A frown on his face, forehead lined
Regret and sadness clouding his mind
He regretted the events of the past years
How he was wishing to undo all that had
Happened in the past , but wishing never
Made things go away, he has to take action
He made a decision to take the steps
Arrange details and act on the words
Spoken with true resolve, and determination
He orders his foreman to arrange the release
Of all the slaves in his bondage and on his land.
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Your prompt for JusJoJan 2019, January 13th is brought to you by Teresa! Click here to find her last SoCS post and say hi while you’re there! Teresa’s word for our prompt today is “undiscovered.” Use it anywhere in your post or make it the theme of your post. Have fun!
There in the corner of the garden
Lived a whole family of pixies
A tiny cottage surrounded by
Pretty decorative mushrooms
They have a couple of elves
As friendly neighbors who share
This secluded corner of the garden
Their hope is to live here, undiscovered
Safe from the prying eyes of the humans
Who in their curiosity might destroy
All the beauty of their hidden habitat
JusJoJan # 13
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