BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000

Subject: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: SandyToes
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 11:53 AM

Granite or Grapes

Crush granite, and you get chips that can cut you. Crush grapes, and you get juice that refreshes you. Some people are like granite. They're cold, and they chill you. They're hard, and they hurt you. Bumping against you, they crush you. Crush grapes and they give forth a fragrance to the one who crushes them. They give refreshment, not resentment; stimulation, not a sting. Today and every day, when someone crushes you, refresh them; don't revile them. Sweeten their lives; don't smash them. Love your enemies!!!!

***Which are you...the granite or the grape?

SandyToes

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: hesperis
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 12:24 PM

Neither.

I'm not either into being crushed or into crushing others.
Grapes do not recover from bruising, people can, in time heal from wounds brought on by others.

Flowers crushed underfoot can sometimes spring up prettier than before, but people are not for being trodden on.

I am a dancer, and a musician. Not granite, I am flesh and blood and bone, and would not purposely hurt anyone. Not a grape, I am not for being consumed by others, or for dying in the bringing forth of my seeds... I am for living.
I live for myself, for my Art, and for humanity.

If I am not good at the dance, and bump into someone and hurt them, I apologize, and dance on.
If someone is not good at the dance and bumps into me unintentionally, I forgive them, share a laugh, and dance on.
If someone steps on my toes intentionally to hurt me, I don't dance with them anymore, and maybe write a song to relieve my pain.
If someone dances a measure with me well, I remember them in my heart forever.

I am not granite or a grape, I am a human being.
I am a musician, I am a dancer.

~*sirepseh*~

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: LR Mole
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 12:25 PM

Hard to lean on a grape, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:05 PM

Naive but to my knowledge I do not have any enemies. There are many who disagree with me and I with them. It is healthy to share ideas. But problem people are out of my life long before they become enemies.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 01:56 PM

See Schmielzo Polka, Aine's Mudcat Songbook, under Quick Links on top of the forum page.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 02:00 PM

I would say I'm a grape. I am crushable. I can be refreshing, intoxicating, soothing, or slippery. Purple is my favorite color, with green running a close second. Otherwise, what Hesperis said.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: tar_heel
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 02:42 PM

hey,that was a neat thought for the day,sandytoes!yesterday i was granite.......today,i am grapes,and i thank you very much for the lesson ,here!

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the Day: Fri, Aug 25, 2000
From: sophocleese
Date: 25 Aug 00 - 09:54 PM

Yeah, but what about sour grapes? No matter what you do with them you still have to add a lot of sugar to make them palatable.

Or sun-ripened granite? Lovely shades of pink and black flecks glinting sweetly up at you as you relax on a surface that warms and holds you in the heat of the sun.