<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Steps of Rumi 85: A Messed-up Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your life is a mess? In every way? <br>And no sign of change? <br>Your fault? Or that of others? <br>Does it matter which, any more? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tears maybe? Time, then, <br>for a laugh…<br>try this: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">thank your lucky stars –<br>or whatever or whoever<br>you might thank, in the unlikely<br>chance you feel like thanking –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for the freewill that allowed you<br>to create this lifelong mess..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You’re joking? What a laughable idea! <br>That’s totally absurd and inappropriate..<br>ineffective, too…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">go on – laugh at the absurdity of it..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep on it… and if tomorrow morning, <br>there’s still the echo of your dismissive laughter –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">something, a tiny something, <br>may have lodged in the mind, <br>saying, it’s not hopeless, not<br>there, where freewill and laughter<br>were first thought of..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">are first thought of..</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> <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=460982" data-title="In the Steps of Rumi 85: A Messed-up Life de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Your life is a mess? In every way? And no sign of change? Your fault? Or that of others? Does it matter which, any more? Tears maybe? Time, then, for a laugh… try this: thank your lucky stars – or whatever or whoever you might thank, i..."></div> </div> </div>

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