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I really love how you explained the gift box
the unending gift that can be opened & used as often
as we want to use it...as for the ole man
his heart may have turned to stone
and that is a pity a sorry sad shame
Gift Boxes
Happy Hearts
and Pure Joy
Vickie
Reviewed by Nancie O'Reiley (Reader)
Reviewed on August 18, 2014
A great poem of inspiration. Happiness begins from within a person. He has to feel happy about himself first before he can receive the happiness from others. I think the old man was most probably angry at himself, thus taking it out on others who are happy around him. Hope the next time you see him he will be a better self.
Some men are too deep into their own dream-like reality, although they are not asleep; while we, and many others, have a dream in our lives; and that is to reach our goals in the REAL WORLD, in our REAL REALITIES.
Your grandfather had a lot of strength. He represents a "strong man" to me. He was probably like my mother-in-law's father, who had raised 7 children, living on a farm. My mother-in-law had also taken so much pride in her father too while she was alive, she would often tell us stories about her father to inspire us all. She would often tell us and the way how her father had carried himself and his whole family on his shoulders during those recessions time. He was a kind and wise old man, and I'm happy that my husband has taken over his grandfather's genes. When I first met my hubby he was just about the cutest, kindest, the wisest man I had ever seen; and he STILL IS!!
I feel so sad for some men of nowadays. They don't know what it's like to be kind, and what it's like to have a dream. I think even at the lowest time in a person's life, one MUST hold a dream, for as long as there is a dream there is a goal to succeed. Some men are constantly being negative, and would look at everything and every situation in a negative way. I feel sorry for those men, for those men would never make it into anything in their lives. They are the poorest man in the world, for they would have no dream, no goals, no gains.
It's sad to be a person only surviving to complain about everything, like the world is owing him/her something; but goals can only be materialized when a person has a dream.
Your grandfather had a dream, and so did my mother-in-law's father; and so did my dad. My dad would never complain about anything even at the lowest point in his life, and that was how he would bounce back so quickly every time he fell. At our family's lowest, we, the children, did not feel any misery because our daddy was there for us. He made life in our lowest all the more bearable and even fun to be in!!
Reminds him my grandfather. It seemed that life weighed so heavy on him and he had to raise seven children with little but a farm hand's pay that made him that way. I hope you can break through his shell the next time you see him.
The incidents, in the world, of those contending for true and lasting happiness is like a debilitating pandemic now. Many people are hurting for many reasons. Wouldn't it be nice if he could find and read your impressions here, Sandie, and take heart?
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I really love how you explained the gift box
the unending gift that can be opened & used as often
as we want to use it...as for the ole man
his heart may have turned to stone
and that is a pity a sorry sad shame
Gift Boxes
Happy Hearts
and Pure Joy
Vickie
Nancie
Superb write, Sandie.
Some men are too deep into their own dream-like reality, although they are not asleep; while we, and many others, have a dream in our lives; and that is to reach our goals in the REAL WORLD, in our REAL REALITIES.
Your grandfather had a lot of strength. He represents a "strong man" to me. He was probably like my mother-in-law's father, who had raised 7 children, living on a farm. My mother-in-law had also taken so much pride in her father too while she was alive, she would often tell us stories about her father to inspire us all. She would often tell us and the way how her father had carried himself and his whole family on his shoulders during those recessions time. He was a kind and wise old man, and I'm happy that my husband has taken over his grandfather's genes. When I first met my hubby he was just about the cutest, kindest, the wisest man I had ever seen; and he STILL IS!!
I feel so sad for some men of nowadays. They don't know what it's like to be kind, and what it's like to have a dream. I think even at the lowest time in a person's life, one MUST hold a dream, for as long as there is a dream there is a goal to succeed. Some men are constantly being negative, and would look at everything and every situation in a negative way. I feel sorry for those men, for those men would never make it into anything in their lives. They are the poorest man in the world, for they would have no dream, no goals, no gains.
It's sad to be a person only surviving to complain about everything, like the world is owing him/her something; but goals can only be materialized when a person has a dream.
Your grandfather had a dream, and so did my mother-in-law's father; and so did my dad. My dad would never complain about anything even at the lowest point in his life, and that was how he would bounce back so quickly every time he fell. At our family's lowest, we, the children, did not feel any misery because our daddy was there for us. He made life in our lowest all the more bearable and even fun to be in!!
Sandie
Ron
Michael D.
Kathy
happiness is within himself.
How so very true.