Thought For the Day

Very profound CT! I hope your escape goes well.

I thought of many of us when I read this, I hope you like it.

Abraham Lincoln went to a slave market. There he noted a young, beautiful African American woman being auctioned off to the highest offer. He bid on her and won. He could see the anger in the young woman's eyes and could imagine what she was thinking,
"Another white man who will buy me, use me, and then discard me."

As Lincoln walked off with his "property", he turned to the woman and said, "your free."

"Yeah, what does that mean?" she replied.

"It means that your free."

"Does that mean that I can say whatever I want to say?"

"Yes, " replied Lincoln ,smiling,"it means you can say whatever you want to say."

"Does it mean", she asked incredulously, "that I can be whatever I want to be?"

"Yes you can be whatever you want to be."

"Does it mean", the young woman asked hesitantly, "that I can go wherever I want to go?"

"Yes it means you are free and can go wherever you want to go."

"Then," said the young woman with tears welling up in her eyes, "I think I'll go with you."

That's what trust, and faith is all about, it sets us free.

😥

When I started to get my head around the situation I was in in my marriage and think about my options, I bought a notebook and started to write things down as a way or reducing my anxiety and focusing my thoughts.

At the top of the very first page I wrote down this quote; it is by the mountaineer Joe Simpson, from the film 'Touching the Void' (well worth watching):

"You gotta make decisions. You gotta keep making decisions, even if they're wrong decisions... If you don't make decisions, you're stuffed."

*internal thought, don't say it, this is not in the dirty section, this is not in the dirty section, this is not in the dirty section....