Meth: a Ticking Timebomb Gone Viral

The Wisdom in the Words

I love quotes. I came across this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/SrJgN72Ugww?si=9DO_9ZDVAJVdw3Bo

It has hundreds of quotes by Gandhi, Churchill, Bonaparte, Franklin, Hemmingway, Carnegie, Kant, Camus, Huxley, Twain, Freud, Plato, Tesla, Maurois, Marx, Buddha, Einstein, Rockefeller, Confucius, Bismark, Aristotle, Kipling, Newton, Tzu, Russell and many more.

Some of my favourites are...

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others...Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short...Andre Maurois

If you want the last word in an argument, tell him, "Perhaps you are right."...Winston Churchill

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowed in prayer...Gandhi

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions...Charles Darwin

If youth knew...if age could...Sigmund Freud

It is easy to fall in love...the hard part is finding someone to catch you...Bertrand Russell

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled dis-believer...Soren Kierkegaard

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world...and I should know, I've done it a thousand times...Mark Twain

Change is inevitable...but the direction of those changes starts with us, the individuals in every community, and not with the masses...whom we are so eager to blame for it all being so wrong...Yours Truly

End quotes...

A few days ago I was like a child who was learning to ride a bike (the bike being a metaphor for my life)...a child whose father had let go and allowed to ride freely and unassisted. And in those moments after the dealer called, my bike began to wobble. It's like I am watching myself now as I ride down that hill, gaining speed in sheer panic as I hurtle along. It was only once I got to the bottom of that hill unscathed, in the now, that I looked back and breathed a sigh of relief.

During those moments of panic, I saw the faces of those I would have let down, and now, in retrospect, I see everyone who has shown me support...the metaphorical fathers in this story, who watched in fear, but then in pride as I lost, but then regained control.

Today, no one is happier about that than I am. But it is comforting to know there are those who are proud of me. And that will hopefully make another wobble less likely, but if it does happen, far less scary.