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Post by John Barnett on Feb 5, 2004 16:19:48 GMT -5
I say never be satisfied
I say never be content
If you are in complacement
Then you can never grow
Don't be satisfied with your life
Don't be satisfied with your being
We need to evolve
Evolve into something greater
Take everything that concerns us to the next level
Don't let your current status stay the same
Knock your relationships up a notch in meaning
Knock your qualities and values up to greater standpoint
If we stay in the same place forever
Then we can never go anywhere else
Don't sit back and watch the world fly by
Get up off your feet and do something about it
Change your world
Change your life
Never be satisfied
Never be content
Never be complete
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Post by SilverEyes on Feb 5, 2004 18:34:32 GMT -5
Certainly a nice piece and I agree with parts of your message but if one is never satisfied one is never happy.
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Post by bloodredtears on Feb 5, 2004 19:32:25 GMT -5
very well written and i agree that we should never give up on our dreams...but i agree with silvereyes...a person can't be happy if all they have is dreams...sometimes reality and the kicks we get are the things we have to embrace in order to survive...very well written!
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Post by Wolf on Feb 20, 2004 17:23:20 GMT -5
Very well done  I've oft said that "The day I stop growing is the day I'll dig my grave and crawl in". I see life as a journey full of chances to explore, grow, extend myself; and thus far I've not encountered anything to show that life isn't such a journey.
Regarding satisfaction? I've a somewhat different perspective... I'll use my woodworking as an example. It took a lot of hard work, plenty of splinters, plenty of ruined or badly-done projects - and yup, I Just Was Not Satisfied (TM), and I was definitely most unhappy... but I kept going, and finally learned enough to create my first self-designed/wood-carved/built/finished/ bookshelf -
Yeah. I AM very satisfied with that project, and yes, I AM very happy with it to this day - but... but...
But at another level I was not and am not satisfied; for I've taken what I did achieve as the foundation to reach for the NEXT level of skill, and I'm not satisfied with the results (yet), nor happy with what I've done so far -
BUT that doesn't preclude the satisfaction and happiness associated the learning process; nor does it preclude the satisfaction and happiness with what has gone before, been achieved before; nor does it preclude the satisfaction and happiness one experiences in the moment as one achieves a previously unachievable task, goal, or project...
The danger- and this is what I get out of the poem - is to STOP at that point, sat in the satisfaction and happiness of that moment, and never go on to learn, do, and accomplish more, to never set further goals and strive for those in turn...
YMMV, of course 
Wolf
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Post by richie on Feb 21, 2004 15:47:09 GMT -5
This would be great as a recording through the mike, sounds really good to my ear.
well done Richie.
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Post by JosephScottMorris on Feb 23, 2004 0:56:24 GMT -5
Excellent write and conveys an excellent message indeed!
Thanks for sharing it! ;DJoe
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Post by John Barnett on Feb 24, 2004 14:50:25 GMT -5
Ghost Wolf, I believe you got the message right. I wrote this poem to convey the message to never stop growing. If we become complacent, then we are dead. But if we prosper, then we are living. Sitting idle will get you nowhere. Once you get started on something, never settle for anything, go forth as if there were no limits to what you can do.
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I've oft said that "The day I stop growing is the day I'll dig my grave and crawl in". I see life as a journey full of chances to explore, grow, extend myself; and thus far I've not encountered anything to show that life isn't such a journey.