success (?)

i'm not usually into cheesy poems about the meaning of life, or romance or basically cheesy poems about anything. and most often i don't like poems at all. ok scratch that, i flat out hate poems. BUT as I got to hang out with some family the last couple days, i read a poem on a magnet on my sister's refrigerator that i've read probably every time i've gone to her house as i blankly stare into the light looking for food. but this time i took closer notice. and hey i might be on the slow train and you all probably heard this poem thing in like 7th grade when you studied ralph waldo emerson but I LIKE THIS CHEESY POEM ABOUT SUCCESS so there.


to laugh often and love much:
to win respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the approbation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to give one's self;
to leave the world a little better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or redeemed social condition;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation;
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived...
this is to have succeeded.

-ralph

p.s. even though this wasn't written in bible times like most books i consider legitimate, i still think it is a honest and realistic approach to success. my views of success in life have drastically changed since the beginning of this year. now i have one goal, and it blankets all my smaller goals. this goal is what i bank on, and surrender my life's yearnings to. it is attainable and it keeps me striving while satisfying my needs all at once. to me success is intimacy with Jesus. i can reach my goal daily while still running after it for the rest of my life. and i think this here poem, this cheesy but beautiful glimpse of success, fits under the largeness of my aforementioned goal. so cheers to the mercies of God that are new every morning (lamentations 3:22-23), and how you can start over and rearrange your life goals any old time of year, even if its june 19th, and not january 1st.

* commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. [proverbs 16:3]
* intimacy: marked by a warm friendship developing through long association; belonging to one's deepest nature

p.p.s

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mccafe just totally messed up my delicious coffee drink order so they gave me a GIGANTIC ONE once they got it right. everyone who's anyone knows the way to my heart is through my stomach! way to make my night mcdonalds :D


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