Picture of Success

Success can be define in different ways.  For many, to be the next supermodel well trimmed attraction is what success is.  For others, another day living on earth is the attraction of success.
Success means different things to different people.  Right now! Mental illness or not weight loss should be a priority but it's not.  To be healthy is.  To be weightless is not a sign of good health tough it's an obsession.  This world and everywhere you look around is obsessed with weight.  So much time and money is spend on losing weight and we consumers fall for it.  The only reason sometimes is to be healthy.  Walking should be fun and not a duty.  Sports should be fun, not slavery.
We are obviously listening to our own heart and want to have that 'feeling good' feeling but that can be temporary as any weight lost is gained again in a vicious circle.

The actual vicious circle is not weight loss and then weight gain but that indispensable feeling of security in fitting in the right size of mold, whichever society dictates to us.  We are constantly seeking people's opinion whether subconsciously or not.  Sometimes their opinions matter and sometimes they do not because of the values attached to them.  If it is one opinion they have heard from someone else and it is given to us it probably based on a passed era where weight and outward looks mattered more.  Actually, our opinions are often very much affected by the media we open ourselves to.  I know a few people who spend a lot of time with a certain media and end up speaking the opinions of that media, not really even having their own opinion and judgment of what is right and wrong.

I don't think our focus should be on our weight at all but on what really matters in our life...our heart.
Our attitude in life and to life is what matters.  Out of the heart comes the issues of life.

Prayer for the Heart

Bernard Demaere

 

Sovereign Lord,

Please allow my heart

To be well ploughed,

And clean,

Emptied of all debris,

And thorns.

Let not the seeds,

Be smothered by thistles.

Let it not be a shallow path,

Strewn with rocks,

But a good ground,

Which yields

A healthy crop,

And bring the seed


Of abundant blessings
I was born in Belgium ����.I am retired and living with my wife of 36years, Cathy. We are the proud parents of two adult married children. One of each, Zoe and Steve. Now we have grandchildren as well. I love writing, I don’t write some poetry. I have quite a collection of poems.

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