One of the very first....

Hey mamacita, 

You are laying here next to me and I hope my furious typing does not disturb your beautiful, peaceful slumber. I type so hard no matter how hard I try not to. So remember that quote book I was telling you about.....

Isn't that hilarious? Wow. How it takes me back every time I look at the cover of this book. Pretty much epitomizes my interests at the time and who I thought I was. I still feel that way ....Anywhoo....

So since I told you about Jonathan, my fine feathered friend that brought us here to play in the absolutely astounding world of words I thought I'd write you a little passage from the book that made it into the very first page of my very first quote book. Seems fitting enough...

 "Why aren't there more of us here? Why, where I came from there were. . . "

". . . thousands and thousands of gulls.I know." Sullivan shook his head. "The only answer I can see Jonathan, is that you are pretty well a one-in-a-million bird. Most of us came along ever so slowly. We went from one world into another that was almost exactly like it, forgetting right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment. Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome."

He stretched his wings and turned to face the wind, "But you, Jon," he said, "learned so much at one time that you didn't have to go through a thousand lives to reach this one."

So what does it all mean Basil? ;-) You know reading that makes me realize once again how very true it is. You see Athena, for me, I feel that life is a series of tests. Not tests placed on you by anything or anyone other than your very self. We are often  faced with situations in which we may not make the most sagacious choices, or say the nicest things, or even end up doing something extremely different than what we intended to do. That very situation is a lesson in disguise and well sometimes not in a guise at all, sometimes that lesson slaps you like a bucket of ice cold water in your REM stage!

If you don't learn anything from your life's experiences then living them is futile. . So many people  live their lives making the same mistakes over and over and then death reaches them and they are none the wiser. I have been guilty of making the same mistakes one too many times. However, if you align your life in such a way that you are faced with a situation you've been in before and this time you do things right or take a different road then you are wiser than you can ever imagine. I want you to be the master of your life and not some little hamster running your life away in circles! You are a true success when you learn something about yourself from the choices you make and use them to guide you to where you want to be. In other words if the formula you are using for life doesn't seem to be working for you then you need to rewrite the equation a different way. So we must apply the knowledge we gain throughout our life and put it to some use. We must use our experiences as a lighthouse to guide our path in the right direction. 

That brings us to our farewell, that and the fact that my stomach has now begun eating itself and I must do something to appease it. Thank you for listening and I look forward to our next meeting.Oh yeah...I gotta end this right...It has been a most ineffable delight sharing with you one of the very first quote books and touching passages that danced along it's first entries and I hope that this is just of our very firsts in a long line of many....Je'Taime