Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 16, 2013
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Transcript:
I bargained with Life for a penny and Life would pay no more. However I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store. For life is a just employer He gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages. Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire. Only to learn, dismayed that any wage I had asked of Life... Life would have paid. -My Wage by Jessie B Rittenhouse
j2p2 over 10 years ago
Great stuff!!! And a little uncomfortable, like all great art (and prose)…
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
Life is dear…..never sell it cheap.
MotherOfMoses over 10 years ago
Deep.
MotherOfMoses over 10 years ago
Deep.
annhmullin over 10 years ago
I hope that you can find someone to help you if you are feeling that low. Life is hard.
topbunk over 10 years ago
Please stay with us longer.
vldazzle over 10 years ago
Every life has value. Never give up.
I have been very fortunate (as well as determined in each of my goals). I expect to continue a very full life in good health and enjoying all of the greatest delights (including seeing great grandchildren now that grandkids are graduating college). I have outlived most who wished me ill.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
I wish that I had known all I had to do was ask Life to make me rich.I’m sorry, I don’t see it as being that simple. I think Life gives you what it wants you to have and it’s up to you to make something of it.
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
Don’t worry…..it will.That is as certain as the sun will rise tomorrow.
nawsa Premium Member over 10 years ago
I had to memorize this in 5th grade, about when the author died. She was 78, famous, and by all accounts had a rich full life. It was understood in those days that the “bargaining” included the work and effort you would put forth, in work and relationships.