Beautiful poem @ericvancewalton,I've been trying to write a book for years, the other day I decided to stop scrolling through my phone, and put it away. I took the box out with all my research work for my book, I asked myself, what motivated me to start this project, it's amazing what happens to one's mind when one makes that move towards that goal.
It's the same when one looks at a blank canvas and wonder what you're going to paint. By starting with a colour on the canvas, eventually the picture will emerge.
What I'm saying is,start somewhere.
Thank you for an amazing post, enjoy your holidays.

My wife and I were driving home from the dentist today and something triggered me to think about how quickly time is passing us by. I once again made the comment to myself that I need to remember even the small times that we spend together doing things because everything is fleeting.

We can only make choices, maximize them, and optimize them But we can't be sure of the outcome. I will apply E=mc<sup>2</sup> equation of Einstein here. When two objects are in the gravitational field, a part of their weight is transformed into energy. Just like that the society where we exist, there is an invisible force or attraction binds us together, the result as we desire may not be achieved, a part of it also account on our surrounding, so the universe tell us the way we are supposed to be.

I read this peotry and learn from many things from it. I think life is too short to spend with your family and good friend's. Life gives you a chance to select bad or good people's. Believe in your self and achieve your life goals.

Beautiful poetry about life. We really should position where we stand. Family and friends are those who will take good care of us. Have a nice day, Eric.

> Our answers are
often nestled in the most
uncomfortable of places,
where people know us deeply
but love us just the same,

We experience this as humans on a daily basis which Is really true and I appreciate you sharing this poem, it's very nice.

Nice poem @ericvancewalton, we must all learn to love ourselves, to see the beauty in others and to follow our dreams. @thebigsweed made a sign that hangs on our fence, it says "Dreams are ideas put into motion". I love that. 

Technology is great, but we have to start balancing it with real life and real people.
Enjoy the day.

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Simplistic... We, it's true that we often seek external validation for some of the most important or relevant things in life, love for example, and sometimes we turn to the internet, online spaces to see if we can get that. But you've said it all, sometimes we just have to envalue ourselves for who and what we are. 

Well-done. It's been a while

Sometimes I feel like LIFE is a tradeoff between idealism and realism. Idealistic though keep us afloat to dream and realism forces us to behave in a pragmatic way, sometimes it forces us to behave just for survival above anything else.

But peace of mind is way being such boundaries, that resides deep down the quiet mind. Nice poem, I really love the lines, quite deep and meaningful.

I really enjoyed reading your poem! 

Time puts everything in its place. I noticed that every year I do not pay more attention to the opinions of others.

What a beautiful poem, I loved it.

We really have to seek more connection with ourselves and with nature.

This is so nice and very informative to learn something from it.

> If we find
we can’t do that,
something then
must drastically change,

Most of the time I can relate to it. It breaks out of that congestion for sure, but we dont know which side. That's the dilemma. 

> The choices,
they are ours
but life will never fail to
show us the way
we’re supposed to be.

This sums up the poem quite nicely. **"but life will never fail to show us the way we’re supposed to be."**...that's the quintessence of life, **.....supposed to be**, that correctness and equilibrium is the true mirror.

Thank you, Eric, it's always heart-touching to read it.

It is courageous to show ourselves as we are today! We don't have to please everyone. That is impossible. What is possible and necessary is to love ourselves, with our wounds and imperfections, and to find a person who kisses those wounds and respects them. In these times in which everything is consumed and discarded because it is broken, we should begin to see the beauty of the cracks, the stories they tell. In the place where we can be and with the people we don't have to put on masks, in that place and with those people we should stay. A poem to ponder. A beautiful evening, my friend. Hugs

Very beautifully said. And still simply and honestly.

I like this immensely. 👏

Beautiful poem! 

>If we find
we can’t do that,
something then
must drastically change,

Easier said than done, when our illusions of reality seem to show us that we cannot live without a cell phone and computer. 

>the energy we feel
from the person
across the table,
in the micro-
expressions of friends,
the slightest twitch
of an eyelid,
the purposeful pause,
or a sarcastic smile,

I feel more alive when I am in the company of others, or in nature, than I do when I am glued to my screen. Something about these screens, this light, or the radiation, is addictive. 

I wonder sometimes if we find ourselves, naturally, when we stop trying to make ourselves into something we are not. Facade and posing, the neon billboards that outshine the gems we truly are. A lovely piece of self-exploration, Eric. It was a fabulous way to begin my day:)

This is really a powerful poem I must confess. So powerful 

We have our chocies, but life has also chocies for us as well. Perhaps, our choicies might be directed by life.

I agree that we must learn to love who we are, otherwise we go nowhere fast.

Good lines mate ;)

> The choices,
they are ours
but life will never fail to
show us the way
we’re supposed to be.

People used to say that God have a grand plan with us. Probably most of us do not see it yet. We will all return home to God one day, and we will live in unearthly love and peace, as we all lived before we were born on Earth. The life is for eternity. What we call "born" and  "death" are only transitions. Life is eternal. Time exist only in the physical world, but we are not really physical. We only "use" these physical human bodies to experience the physical world.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.