Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
you know what the problem with clarks, (and the ‘answer’ to Complete the Sentence today?), is? it’s that we are all, frickin Biblical, in our outlook on Life. Wait, wait! no, before you rogers think, ‘isn’t he being so coyly provocative, how typical’ or scotts laugh, ‘alright! he said ‘fuck!’.. no, no he didn’t! fuck tha-click” or you clarks smile to yourselves* and think, ‘oh, I see what he’s doing here… cute‘ Stop reacting like that keep reading, we know, that you know, that by ‘Biblical’ we mean:
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxology )
so not only do we have to hope for: an accident, trauma, late for class and have to sit in a different seat next to that girl you would never have the nerve to talk to, cover for your boss and do the work that you have been doing for him all along, but in front of everyone…call your physician at 2:00am, even though she said not to worry and just wait until the morning, answer that email from ‘www.yourdreamiswaitinghere.com with the firm resolve that ‘that’s it, no more trying’, we go through life trying, as best we can, to find the life we believe we should have. But! when change does occur, it’s not like we have trouble accepting the new situation ….(haven’t we spent most of our lives dreaming of just this thing happening?). No, that’s not the Biblical problem we all contend with, it’s accepting the change/improvement/new outlook as part of our life, that’s the difficult part, letting go of the past ways.
Everything resists change, we humans, however, resist the benefits and improvements that (some) changes offer. It’s like we’re way hungry, and we have a fishing pole and our line is in the water and we wait…and we grow hungrier and we dream of the sumptuous meal of Gadus morhua surrounded by roast potatoes and some nice vegetables and a refreshing beverage and, …and! in the middle of our dream the fishing reel starts spinning like mad and we have a bite! and we work and work and fight, to reel it in, and it almost escapes, and we get it back and finally, with a heroic last effort we pull it on shore, and we’re like…. what the hell?!! this isn’t right!! I wanted Cod Fish! and I kick the still living and still fighting fish right back into the water.
Thank you to Janine and Kate and Stephanie and Kristi for the virtual chalkboard-in-the-empty-classroom as I walk down the hallway
our Friends are doing well, out in the vast un-charted Land of the Alphabet!
Dyanne (who’s a scott?!) from the Thursday Late Edition (Wichita Times Review)
Jean friday-friday!
zoe: very cool
Lizzi (frickin excellent par normalle )… almost done, guys! good efforts
* like you ever smile directly anywhere other than to yourself or in bed(alone or not)
** clarks and scotts and rogers… oh my!
About clarkscottroger
frist!!!
lol frist it is!
Totally do resist change and yes I very well get this in spades, but like you eventually my stubborn butt will give in and 9 times out of 10 change truly wasn’t so bad in the end!! :)
Janine
exactly! lol ( you were edged out for FRIST… by what? 3 minutes!! very cool)
delete, delete, delete…. Acceptance IS action–you are right! jeh
(((((((((Janinnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)))))))) !!!!
what a great post, so true…change seems scary, but in the end it can often be the best thing for you.
Karen
totally agree and yet, why, when we look back, do we resist the change that we (think we are) hoping for?
Agree Clark…changes are hard to accept, but then without changes man would not have progressed so far…
TGIF!
I think Im missing how “…world without end…” is a clark viewpoint… biblical…hmmmmm….
Change though… man sometimes ya gotta GIVE someone a fish or else they are gonna starve to death as you try to teach them to fish for themselves (change takes time.)…but even a clark can do it eh????
“…as it was in the beginning, so shall it be… on and on and on and even when you’re sure you’ve changed your ways…(Al Pacino Godfather III visual) ‘they pull you back in!!!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH… I am so slow! Of course!!!! It all makes sense now… you keep pulling me back in!!!!
Change is good…and scary as hell too.
Change IS good and sucky. Also had a big old chuckle at the beginning. Because, well, fuck. I said fuck.
I don’t mind change as much as I used to…maybe because I don’t sweat the small stuff as much. Change also means a new adventure and I’m game for that. I hate to be bored…
Jennifer
Yeah totally agree…boredom is the 1st through 5th Circle of Hell hey! you trip is coming up, no? hope we can get a docTee to you in time for the trip, but it sounds like an adventure no matter what