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Tue, Jun 19, 2018 08:11:58 AM


🌤 things that might 🌥
posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 08:11:58 AM

 

overwhelm me can be made bearable. yesterday was not my best day as i was informed that if i wanted to continue with the sale of my time share in Mexico, i would have to come up with another $8700.00, after i have already wired over $11,000 off to facilitate the process. needless to say, i was pissed off, at the company who is managing this sale as well as myself for being stupid enough to trust them in the first place. i am not sure what f any action i can take to get my money back and it may mean beans and rice for lunch for the next six months or so, to pay back the money i borrowed against my credit cards. a very expensive lesson for me, as i am not the sort that has that kind of money just laying around to be throw down the drain. it is what it is and in this case, had i trusted my instincts going in, instead of looking at the prize at the end, perhaps…
i am trying to find some lesson in all of this and get past my anger and frustration and there certainly will be a joke in here, somewhere down the road. what i am feeling today is loss and a whole lot of FML and hindsight. no i am not going to use over this and perhaps a legal action or a complaint with the State of Louisiana will be in my future. what i am doing right here and right know is learning to let go and move on with my life. not a whole lot of humor in this situation, but i will survive, just for today.

∞ DT ∞

 

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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

THE TAO TEH KING, OR THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

3) He who acts (with an ulterior purpose) does harm; he who takes
hold of a thing (in the same way) loses his hold. The sage does not
act (so), and therefore does no harm; he does not lay hold (so), and
therefore does not lose his bold. (But) people in their conduct of
affairs are constantly ruining them when they are on the eve of success.
If they were careful at the end, as (they should be) at the beginning,
they would not so ruin them.