Tag: stoicism
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When We Decide to Fail
When do we decide to fail? It seems like a silly question, like who decides to fail? Failing at something is bad enough so that choosing to do so seems like such a strange decision. Yet, when I think about it, when I think about the lack of success in many of the avenues that…
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Time Unrelenting
Tick tick. Time continues to march on. Even as I stand there with nothing to do, it continues forth. Unrelenting in its march forward through the ages. Each day passes on becoming another addition to the past, to days no longer in reach but for memory. Tick tick. Sometimes I feel the pulse of it…
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Delayed
I didn’t think that I needed to be reminded. But we all need the reminders. The reminder came to me as I was sitting in the terminal to the airport, waiting for the flight that had already been the replacement to an earlier flight that was cancelled. This new flight became delayed. So delayed that…
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The Climb Back
I’ve given up. No, not on writing, or this blog, or on the attempts at making writing a career. What I am giving up on is my excuses. All those reasons I give as to why I am not making progress, they weren’t the problem. I have been the problem. Life happens; life sucks. Each…
Jeremy C Kester 