<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432627" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Accompanied by a Wishful Vigor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the time I was twenty-one years old, <br>I had served in the military.<br>Married and had a child.<br>Even I am amazed my clarity is unphased.<br>Or crazed by experiences.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That seems like lifetimes ago today.<br>Since between that time and now, <br>Those who are much younger than I am...<br>Are physically and mentally out of shape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So glad I am I have finished several races.<br>With an acknowledgement I have made mistakes.<br>Met truth.<br>And stay away from delusions.<br>Doing that was difficult to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many I knew, <br>Are 'still' undecided...<br>As to whose life to live.<br>And which races to enter to begin.<br>To BEGIN! <br>Can you imagine? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I hear some of them mention retirement, <br>I wonder from what? <br>How can one retire, <br>From uninspiring routines? <br>And to do what next? <br>A shifting of a butt to remain in a similar scene? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank God I chose to specialize in the living of my life.<br>And not pretend a crawling on my knees done publicly, <br>Was not embarrassing.<br>It was.<br>But the recovery? <br>Introduced me to a peace of mind and happiness, <br>I can not replace by faking it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have finished several races! <br>And I was 'thisclose' on giving up on a few.<br>You know...<br>Making those easy excuses for myself.<br>Like many choose to do, <br>To prove they can successfully procrastinate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, <br>With an embellished zest.<br>Accompanied by a wishful vigor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432627" data-title="Accompanied by a Wishful Vigor de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="By the time I was twenty-one years old, I had served in the military. Married and had a child. Even I am amazed my clarity is unphased. Or crazed by experiences. That seems like lifetimes ago today. Since between that time and now, Those who ar..."></div> </div> </div>

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