Is life busy but still a breeze
or just surviving with ill ease
Addicted to devices
Chasing desires and vices
Keeping up with trends
Catching up with friends
Botox to lips or face
World flying by at a rapid pace
Duties, commitments galore
Never satisfied, looking for that flaw
Fear and insecurities abound
Need constant entertainment around
Pause and reflect
to see what it is that you neglect
Living is much more than survival
Breath out, give calm a revival
Daily Prompt: Survive
I love your poems! (just beginning to catch up. Which I doubt I’ll ever do)
Love and light!
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lol always grateful for your reading and comments Eliza, pick and choose what you read .. please don’t overdo it 🙂
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Beautifully written!
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It’s funny isn’t it, we’re always surviving… now we have to survive our modern society.
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I prefer to thrive Simon, surviving is barely living ….
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I think so many of us are just doing thatc though.
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exactly my point Simon …
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Your poem is full of so many truths of life and beautifully done!
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thanks so much!
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I think they need to teach such self awareness in grade school. It seems there are more ‘devices’ now then ever before. Children don’t know how to entertain themselves. I like the commercials that promote ‘media’ free family meals. I’m not sure how the children of today will survive if and when they run out of ‘outside’ power.
This post reminds me of the time I overheard a guy (I was on vacation walking on a boardwalk at least five even seven years ago) and this younger man was heads down on his phone complaining that the magic blue pill didn’t cut it for him anymore. And I wondered why he even needed it in the first place. But then ‘Those’ commercials make me laugh – how many folks do you know take a vacation with two side by side clawfoot bathtubs out in the wilderness? And the couple (each in their own tub) is smiling holding hands .
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oh some good insight here Jules, love the idea of awareness taught in schools … it would certainly help build better coping skills!
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In with coping skills and out with labels!
I do like that some schools have peer mediation groups.
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oh that does sound constructive, as I have no grandies I have no idea what happens in schools these days but our curriculum left a lot to be desired … we were not prepared for the real world in any way!
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Reblogged this on Blog of Hammad Rais and commented:
A world getting crowded up with materialistic wows each passing day but losing the true spirit of human nature and peacefulness.
What it is we are running after? A question we must ask ourselves every now and then because it can give us an insight about our own self.
I read this simple but amazing piece of thoughts at Kate’s blog about surviving or thriving in today’s world, which can be used as a set of good reminders about our own self, about what we do everyday and for what purpose.
Read it out below!
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thanks so much Hammad!
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can’t find it there … someone else had difficulty reblogging one of my posts 😦
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good one
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thanks Gary
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Life is not meant to simply survive but it is to be lived in all her simplicity. Lovely and apt words of survive, Kate.
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Perfect Kate! Happiness in a few beautiful lines. Xx
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Well described Kate……. Duties, commitment no satisfaction… So much adult like feeling…
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we need to work out our priorities and let the rest decline …
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Rightly said Kate… Setting priorities helps to be in control…
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control is not the word I’d use Chiru, it saves wasting time …
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Different perspective for different people…
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Dwelling, attending, plus the inner work of discovering within ourselves what drives that behaviour.
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thirst and curiosity with the knowledge that there is something more 🙂
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Oh yes 😉
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The last line is awesome advice! Great poem Kate.
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A wonderful reminder.
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Beautiful and true, dear Kate.
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Fear and insecurities abound – you are on to something here, lately i have been realising that it is not me but others insecurities that ruin friendships. too caught up in appearance they forget the real value of friends- a good read Kate dear
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yes those caught up in appearances have a lot of spiritual growth to catch up on … 😦
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Beautiful words
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thanks so much
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It’s hard to remember that we’re supposed to thrive, not mere survive. And sometimes survival is as much as we can manage, but we certainly don’t have to live that way every day. Thanks for the reminder!
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Really feel the need of that calm revival. Something very important in the difference between the richness of thriving as opposed to just living.
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You’ve captured, so well, the struggle of people today!
I would always choose thriving over just surviving.
Your poem reminds me of a favorite quote: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde
HUGS!!! 🙂
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We all seem in a rush to get through life instead of be in it.
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Too true. It’s s busy world we live in. Finding that balance is so important.
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