Thoughts

Getting it right, how important is it?
Important in some ways but not really
As long as we try we have to commit
Getting it right, how important is it?
Do the best we can for our benefit
As long as it sparks joy and we’re free
Getting it right, how important is it?
Important in some ways but not really*

(c) ladyleemanila 2019

* Triolet

For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #71

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I entered my grade 11 class at Holy Name of Mary, Catholic High School to see Robert holding his usual morning audience. Upon seeing me he shouted , ” Did you see your loser friend Jordan Peterson on YouTube last night , crying like a little baby”. My insides tensed and I felt like flying across the room and smacking him in the face. Instead I ignored him and walked to my seat. Jordan Peterson is a professor of psychology that I follow on YouTube. He suffers from depression and occasionally cries when he get emotional over issues concerning the plight of young men with a lack of direction in their lives.

The first lesson of the day started and my mind kept drifting to the writings of Kosho Roshi that I had been pondering the previous night. What did he mean when he wrote, ” when I took my…