Dum Spiro Spero…While I Breath, I Hope

My Credo of Life: Patricia A. Flemming

Let me live within the moment

Let me feel all that I can

Le me cherish life for all it’s worth

With everything that I am

Let me see what’s right in front of me

With vision crystal clear

And face what’s waiting there for me

With no hesitance or fear

May I wake each day with gratitude

For all my life may be

And always feel that wonderment

At the world surrounding me

May I welcome any strangers

With an open heart and mind

And always stand for what is right

With all the strength that I can find

Let me forgive myself for my mistakes

While forgiving others theirs

And never grow indifferent

But always strive to care

Let me not forget what matters

In the scheme of every day

To live each precious moment

In a kind and loving way

For this moment now is everything

Nothing matters but today

So, I’ll willingly embrace it

And not let it slip away

For it passes all so quickly

And one chance is all we get

And a life of wasted moments

Is a life filled with regrets

I sometimes forget that I have started to make my body a tapestry of poems and text that I want to be able to look at as I please to get solace from. Every stanza from this poem is in of itself a nobility that one could base a foundation of a good life around. My favorite is the second stanza which is tattooed in whole on the left side of my chest. What I want more than anything for this next year is to face myself and life head on to fix what needs to be fixed with no hesitance or fear.

I fully intended one of my own writings to be my first written post on this blog, but my own writings, for now at least, are being a little dreary. One might even say morose as I reflect on a few somewhat sensitive matters. The intended purpose of this blog as changed about eighty-two times since I first started conceiving it a few days ago. It was going to be drearier based with bluntness and introspections, but who the hell wants to be part of something like that all the time. I do not. There are times for sadness and matter-of-factness, but there are so many more times to find the beauty that the world can offer and how one can learn to foster that beauty within one’s heart and mind. With the dreary not being their only guiding light. The first reason that I chose the template that I did for this blog is the yin and yang visual quality that it has. The most simplistic underlining meaning behind the symbol and concept of the yin and the yang is excepting the balance of both the good and the bad of life. The whole is greater than the interdependent components. The second reason that I chose the template that I did is the blatant book cover like quality that it gives. Our lives are our books, and we are the authors. Some are just better and more seasoned writers.