Tragedy & Prayer
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside me while I am alive......."
May God be in my head and in my understanding,
May God be in my eyes and in my looking,
May God be in my mouth and in my speaking,
May God be in my heart and in my thinking,
May God be at my end and my departing....
arranged by JustMe @
8:41:00 PM
Although I had a perfectly nice childhood,
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It may be misery not to sing at all,
And to go silent through the brimming day;
It may be misery never to be loved,
But deeper griefs than these beset the way.
To sing the perfect song,
And by a half-tone lost the key,
There the potent sorrow, there the grief,
The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.
To have come near to the perfect love,
Not the hot passion of untempered youth,
But that which lies aside its vanity,
And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.
This, this indeed is to be accursed,
For if we mortals love, or if we sing,
We count our joys not by what we have,
But by what kept us from that perfect thing.
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Anonymous, @ 11:26 AM
The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson."
It is true that no individual or group seems willing to act seriously or sensibly unless and until all irrational and superficial options have failed.
Our world is marred by injustice and dishonesty and all kinds of atrocities at both the individual as well as the communal level. This is because people feel free to do as they please quite unfettered by moral considerations. The wrongdoers renounce such ways only when there is no other option. The freedom—which they abuse—has been given to mankind, because our world is a testing place. And on Doomsday, all without exception will be called to account for how they have used the freedom. If they have ignored and denied the truth in this world, they shall be obliged to accept it on the Day of Reckoning, because all of their options will have run out and subterfuge and pleas for mercy will be of no avail; by that time it will be too late either to beg for forgiveness or to attempt to make amends.
Why do people wait until they are forced to submit to the truth? If one accepts the truth because one is forced to, one’s acceptance has no value. Why again do people wait until they are forced to treat others with justice? Being just to others because one is forced to is likewise an action bereft of honor or human kindness.
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Anonymous, @ 12:03 PM
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