February 2, 2022
Thought for Today
“To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause
suffering.”
Comtesse Diane
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022
SELF-PORTRAIT
Don’t we all wonder at times what they think of us?
I know – knowing one person loves me – does an awful lot
for less worry about how I am – how I come across.
Yet, I can be talking with 15 people at a party and one
person says in a fiftienth of a second,
“You look like Spencer Tracy. Did anyone
ever tell you that?”
“No,” I answered.
Then I jokingly add, “Doctor Kevorkian yes. And the
coroner of Honesdale, PA. Yes. Spencer
Tracy. No.”
And I meet 15 more people – and 15 days after that – and
15 more life experiences after that – and that one comment sticks about Spencer
Tracy.
Spencer Tracy? No I don’t look like him.
Why? Why does that
comment stick to the inside of my eye lids and I keep looking at it?
I know from experience that people always go ga ga over self-tests
– that help us know something about ourselves.
Why?
Is it that I’m always wondering how I’m coming across.
Then I read a quote by Groucho Marx, “She’s afraid that
if she leaves, she’’ become the life of the party.”
Then I remember that’s so like the saying of Oscar Wilde
I’ve used in a dozen talks, “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
cause happiness whenever they go.”
Uh oh!
I guess I’m still not sure of myself.
Who cares?
I do.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
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