<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436947" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Have This Philosophy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a child I had threatened to run away.<br>In fact...<br>It was either the fourth or the fifth time, <br>When I made that anoouncement...<br>To come to realize, <br>No one was paying me any attention at all.<br>And on one of those occasions, <br>My mother told me to take out the garbage...<br>Before I went anywhere! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She really didn't understand the severity of the moment.<br>I was all of ten years old and extremely serious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was trying to make this point...<br>I was going to be missed! <br>My niece, Shayla, did the same thing.<br>But she came back home to say to her parents, <br>She had a need for her checkbook and had forgotten it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like me...<br>She has excellent penmanhip.<br>AND she doesn't play.<br>Or has time for nonsense.<br>She's all business and serious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Go Shayla.<br>I'm so glad you discovered adulthood! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We both had lots to learn about life.<br>Especially the part of life that one learns...<br>DO NOT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS, <br>Anythng connected to your survival.<br>Including those who give lucrative allowances...<br>To afford our checkbooks...to forget! <br>I love my niece.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As young people, <br>We begin to test those independent waters...<br>Early.<br>Many of us were forced to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as we grow...<br>Those 'come-and-find-me' games, <br>Are a bit childish, tired and very old.<br>And when one plays them over fourty...<br>Something should connect in their minds, <br>They play these games alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have this philosophy about life...<br>If you can not teach a grown cat hygiene, <br>And if an adult runs into hiding...<br>In fear of reprisals for something wrong they've done.<br>Only to seek, ultimately, a pat on the back.<br>To be stroked like a missing cat when they return....<br>That person is in need more than 'a' lesson to learn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That litter box needs to be put outside of the house for good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What does that mean? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not say it was a 'good' philosophy...<br>To be quickly understood.<br>Some philosophies have to sit and marinate, <br>Longer than some.<br>I said I 'have' this philosophy about life.<br>You figure it out! <br>It has to be lived to enable it to make sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And stop looking at me like that!</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=436947" data-title="I Have This Philosophy de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="As a child I had threatened to run away. In fact... It was either the fourth or the fifth time, When I made that anoouncement... To come to realize, No one was paying me any attention at all. And on one of those occasions, My mother told me to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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