Before you come to love someone, you might tell them jokes in the hope she or he will like you. This is not a form of love, but rather a form of persuasion.
After you come to love someone, you might tell them the same jokes, but in the hope that her or his hours and burdens may be thus made lighter. This is not a form of persuasion, but rather a form of love.
Far too many of us commit ourselves to marrying someone who charms us — but who charms us only in an effort to persuade us to like them. Later, when these charmers have won our hearts, they so often lose interest in their game. After all, for them it has achieved its goal of winning our hearts and is thus completed and finished.
Some others of us commit ourselves to marrying someone who charms us — but who charms us in an effort to lighten our hours and burdens. For these charmers, their game never loses their interest because it never reaches its goal. After all, our hours and burdens will always be in need of being made lighter.
“After all, our hours and burdens will always be in need of being made lighter.”……this is so very true.
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Amen!
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amazingly insightful phrases Paul….. I enjoyed your words of wisdom….
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I feel so honored, Ivor! Thank you so much for saying so.
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Always my pleasure.
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So very true, Paul. That discernment is so important.
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It is one that in the past, I have found easy to overlook. But hopefully no more, Punam!
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Yes, hopefully no more!
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This is so true.
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Thank you, Muntazir!
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Hey Paul, nice to see you again. Or have I missed lots of your stuff. Not been doing a lot of reading for a while. Needed some downtime…..
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Great to see you again, Riali! I certainly can understand the need for some downtime now and then. I hope you are feeling refreshed!
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I am, thanks.
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I know, that’s a random comment which has no connection whatsoever to the topic of this post.
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Shssh! I won’t tell anyone it was off-topic if you won’t! It will be our secret! 😀
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whispers– thanks x
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