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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A thief in one's own house</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘To steal’, the sage declares, ‘is to take things <br>not given consciously with pleasure’. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Several times my eye has skimmed over this, <br>with thoughtless affirmation; then today <br>it hit me like a burst of consciousness.. for </div><div style="margin:10px 0">yesterday the hairdresser made her regular visit <br>for which I’m enormously grateful; yet, <br>I resent her presence in the house: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">sharply scorning all my attempts <br>at friendly small talk (what a payback <br>for those sessions of ‘Doing anything special <br>this weekend, Sir? ’ ‘Going away this year? ’ <br>which I in turn, used to resent..) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last year she was happy to talk about her teenage son, <br>ice-hockey wizard; now she slaps any such questions <br>back in my face… “ ‘ee’s at school now innee? ” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now my resentment has been named: <br>hoping to treat every visitor as an honoured guest, <br>I feel instead a thief in my own house.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How different from the weekly visit of <br>Mr. Organic Fruit and Veg – <br>product of three different races, so he tells me - <br>whose smile lights up a week of days in memory.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just suppose that we could choose to avoid <br>all those who do no more than exchange <br>their ‘goods and services’ without a smile.. <br>who do not see their job as <br>‘giving consciously with pleasure’.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone the days of cheeky, chirpy, <br>cheerful, cocky Cockney ticket collectors <br>who turned a busload of passengers <br>into a performance art.. giving <br>their service consciously with pleasure <br>and returned by all.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my first philosophy class, <br>seeking to position myself as the class joker, <br>(in the days when ‘waking up’ was our first task) <br>I smugged this observation about being so ‘asleep’ <br>that in the morning at the tube station, <br>I said thank you to the ticket machine… <br>Maybe I was onto something there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, a resolution; never now merely to ‘hand over’, but <br>to give consciously with pleasure..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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