The Boy and The Fire-Flies
An inexperienced boy, one night
through lonely paths returning,
Had taken to guide his steps aright,
a lantern brightly burning.
And safe he traveled by its ray,
until, before him glancing,
He saw, along the doubtful way,
the sparkling fire-flies dancing.
Then he discarded with disdain
his lantern calmly beaming,
To follow this resplendent train,
in fitful radiance gleaming.
But, ere a second step he took,
he found his folly humbled:
The flying lights his path forsook,
and in a ditch he tumbled.
Then bitter anger he expressed
against these guides beguiling;
Who thus the simple boy addressed:
“Nay, cease this vain reviling!
“The blame remains with you alone;
and half the ills men reckon,
Proceed from leaving lights well known,
to follow some false beacon.”
I found this years ago and although the author is unknown I think it is fitting here for anyone in a slump or about to give up. There is a lot to learn from this little poem. So if you are thinking about quitting reflect on this. You may find renewed appreciation for all we have here at WA.
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Hey Gaylon. You got something down, which is what's important. I rather like the lessons written between the lines in that poem. One thing to point out to you. Every blog that is written here has a chance at ranking on the google search engine. It also has your personal cookie attached. So if someone follows that lead from google and signs up to WA, you get the credit. I also could share your post to Facebook (with the icon up top). If someone followed my posting of your blog on FB and signed up, I would get credit. Now, I don't know if you are here to earn $ or not (some people just want the training), but I think that's pretty cool. Geoff. The friendly fisherman :)
Thanks Geoff, I'm working on the lessons one by one and having a great time. Good advice and I will incorporate them into my building plans. ~Gaylon
This is my first blog here at WA. Thought I'd check out this portion of the membership. Hope you like it and please comment and/or offer constructive criticism. ~Gaylon
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I'm definately not thinking of quitting anything here, but I found this use of the English langjage so superb and masterful, I'm going to try to memorize it!:-)
Great theresroth, I'm glad you liked it. ~Gaylon