Why can't I do the things I want to do?
There's so much I know I'm capable of that I never actually do. Why is that?
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The trick is to realize that you're always doing what you want to do ... always. Nobody's making you do anything. Once you get that, you see that you're free and that life is really just a series of choices. Nothing happens to you. You choose.
~ The Answer Man
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The trick is to realize that you're always doing what you want to do ... always. Nobody's making you do anything. Once you get that, you see that you're free and that life is really just a series of choices. Nothing happens to you. You choose.
~ The Answer Man
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#LandscapePhotography
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#rgwoodpost #amazing #naturephotography NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Nature Photography #color #colors #inspiration #canonphotography #canonphotographer #digitalphotography #sunsetphotography #skyphotography
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Very true...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely right "The trick is to realize that you're always doing what you want to do ... always" the capture of the sun rays are amazing! Thank you Robin Griggs Wood for the important words and the beautiful photo! Perfect share with the #landsapephotography theme!
ReplyDeleteFeatured on the Landscape Photography page. Amazing capture Robin Griggs Wood
ReplyDeleteLike G-d spilling over the ocean in this image. Wow!
ReplyDeleteThe trick is to live a mindful and self aware life. Take risks and make your choices deliberately, so that even if they're wrong, you know where it came from and can adjust your actions later.
Really Beautyfull
ReplyDeleteSpectacular Robin Griggs Wood Thank you for sharing with #sunsetsaturday
ReplyDeleteGreat shot , love it
ReplyDeleteGreat shot. But I for one am not happy with my choices lately.
ReplyDeleteWell, illness happens without any choice involved, and then it's not possible to do what you want.... Beautiful photo though!
ReplyDeleteRobin Griggs Wood I needed this!
ReplyDeleteIllness happens, true Charlotte Therese Björnström , but once you are ill you still have choices on how to deal with it, it's all in the attitude.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo Robin Griggs Wood !
ReplyDeleteIt's at times like this (while reading a post of yours) that I wish I could plus something more than once. :)
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding that is the secret to internal peace and happiness
ReplyDeleteI have to correct myself:
ReplyDeleteI'm proud with my choices lately but I'm definitly not happy with the outcome of them even though I knew pretty much how it would turn out. I know I have done the best I can anyway and that's what's matter in the long run.
magical my friend Robin Griggs Wood
ReplyDeleteForgiving.
ReplyDeleteExceptionally gorgeous light even though I am a total sucker for seascapes like this :)
ReplyDeleteRobin Griggs Wood consider this my official notice that I am un-circling you. This post was the last straw. Throughout your posts and especially the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers you have made it abundantly clear that I have control over everything, that I am to blame when my muse starves, and that everything I need to be an artist is inside of me. How am I supposed to make up lame excuses now as to why I can't/didn't do things, or blame others, when really it's all my fault? I mean, this seriously cuts into my 'feeling sorry for myself' time.
ReplyDeleteI hope you realize what you have done here Robin.
It is OK Christopher Germano, the problem is the camera and lenses you have. They are just not up to the task. Once yo have the 5dmkV with the 5-500mm constant f1.2 lens you'll be fine. ;)
ReplyDeleteRichard Ball - I'm a Nikon guy, so now I know I can keep complaining away since I'll likely never own the camera or lens. You have saved me so much work, thank you. :)
ReplyDeleteGlorious photo Robin Griggs Wood and great writing !
ReplyDeleteTo not blame others -- means -- you can start right away to change and decide, the waiting on others is no more. :o)
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I agree Robin Griggs Wood
Ivan Cabrera -- thank you for the share ... :o)
ReplyDeleteCarra Riley -- thank you very much!
ReplyDeleteSamantha Gluck -- so true ... and thank you ... :o)
ReplyDeleteSagar Mahesh -- thank you
ReplyDeleteDennis Hoffbuhr -- thank you so much, my friend!
ReplyDeletePatrick Kelly -- what a kind thing for you to say ... thank you, my friend! (Oh, and it's OK to ditch the CNN ... ;o))
ReplyDeleteLars Ihh -- thank you ... :o)
ReplyDeleteYlva Budsjö -- thank you, dear ... and I agree with your second comment, as well .. :o)
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Therese Björnström -- my illnesses work that way, too, but you don't hear about those much from me because I point my focus on what is going right and making choices that fuel those. You know, "Argue for your disabilities and you get to keep them" ... ;o). Hugs to you, dear ... and thank you!
ReplyDeleteSheila B. DuBois -- yeah!
ReplyDeleteFelicitas Avendano -- great comment, and also thank you for the kind words!
ReplyDeleteSarra Robinson -- aw, thank you so much, dear!
ReplyDeleteLori Carey -- indeed!
ReplyDeleteGene Bowker -- thank you so much, my friend ... :o)
ReplyDeletebabu r -- thank you
ReplyDeleteTricia Tighe -- yes, indeed
ReplyDeleteRichard Ball -- thank you, my friend ... ;o)
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome Robin Griggs Wood
ReplyDeleteChristopher Germano -- you know I had to go and check really quick ... hahaha! Sorry to be such a pain-in-the-aspect, my friend ... ;o)
ReplyDeletePaul Paradis -- merci ... :o)
ReplyDeleteKhrystiane Friedli -- thank you, dear! The writing is from the movie "The Answer Man" ... I love that quote. Happy weekend to you, dear!
ReplyDeleteSassi Sassmannshausen -- well said! ... :o)*
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful, Robin Griggs Wood Thanks for sharing with #landscapephotography
ReplyDeleteVast and yet not lonely. Bathed in light on a sea of water.
ReplyDeleteI guess you just don't understand what 25+ years of awful chronic diseases does to a person, and how it feels when nothing goes right in a very long time, and when the final choice seems to be to either die from the diseases or from the medicines Felicitas Avendano Robin Griggs Wood, but that's okay, I understand that people don't understand, as long as they have positive choices left to make.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Therese Björnström I understand. I've had my own life history of life threatening stress in many shapes. You get to a point when positive thinking isn't enough. Then you continue your fight with other mental weapons.
ReplyDeleteWe all die. Yes, some of us have to chose the lesser of evils, and some of us have a much harder row to hoe.
ReplyDeleteHaving watched people whom I loved die, some in horrors of pain, and some in drugged peace, and yet equanimity was not exclusively denied those in pain, and grace was not exclusively achieved by those in peace.
The choice we can make, no matter how tough we have it is this: Do we focus on the negative. Do we focus on the positive.
If you think you have no positive, stop for a moment and consider that the very act of being able to post here, to share your world with a vast number of people is miraculous. Being able to see is miraculous. Knowing that other people care enough about humanity to celebrate it with art is miraculous.
Choosing to focus on the positive in posts, and to see things through rose colored glasses is not a strike against those who do not follow suit. It is often not even so much choice as habit.
Lovely post. Beautiful light in this photo
ReplyDeletebeautiful photo Robin Griggs Wood and the best Q & A i have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteSo 100% true. Things can happen outside of our control of course. But, in the end we always choose what to do about life today and tomorrow and any given moment.
Good or bad
No one else controls our will and life no matter how much some would want to. So, yeah - live it, your way 100%. Everybody has that right and choice.
Brilliant words and picture Robin. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo
ReplyDeleteHow do I miss these posts and how is it that I swear you are in my head!! I only wish some of the choices were easy.
ReplyDeleteThis is sooooo wonderful! This golden bright image and your words! Thank you! XO
ReplyDeleteBill Wood -- thank you so much, my friend ... :o)
ReplyDeleteBlaze O'Rama -- thank you so much for the kind words and the wonderful added comment ... :o)
ReplyDeleteGlen McBride -- :o)
ReplyDeletepietro marrapodi -- thank you
ReplyDeleteRalph Mendoza -- thank you, my friend ... :o)
ReplyDeleteMichael A Koontz -- thank you so much and for your great comment.
ReplyDeleteLynnej Billam -- thank you for your comment.
ReplyDeleteSheila Luster -- thank you
ReplyDeleteLauri Novak -- if the choices were easy, would you appreciate success as much for those times when you have it? ... ;o)
ReplyDeleteUrsula Broicher -- thank you, dear!!
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Therese Björnström -- I do understand your long suffering, truly. And you know that I care about you, dear. 27 years ago I had a constriction in my brain that caused paralysis in the left side of my body, I lost my ability to speak and half of my field of vision in that time ... I have had attacks of it again over the years and there is nothing that can be done about it. I face the possibility of death every day, but you didn't know that because I don't spend a good deal of my time to force focus on it or use it to explain why I "can't do". As a choice, I focus on what I can accomplish in my life instead.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful image + Robin Griggs Wood...and great words..really touching :)
ReplyDeletethanks a lot for adding me to your circles...i'm sooo happy right now...to be included in your circles... It means a lot to me.. THANK YOU :)
Tazein Mirza Saad -- thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnu T Jose -- aw, thank you so much. And you were supportive of me on someone else's post and I felt that was a very kind thing to do ... :o)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Thanks for sharing with the #LandscapePhotography theme!
ReplyDeletejust had to add Robin that it makes me genuinly happy ( and proud lol ) to see your choice to focus on what you can/enjoying life as much as possible, instead of focusing on the bad and limiting parts.
ReplyDeleteIt's as you said.
We can all die today. So why waste it drowning in the limitations of life that all of us face every single day ( some more then others of course ).
It is not easy at all focusing on the upsides and choosing to live life for our own enjoyment. It is actually for most more hard work being happy and seeing the beauty in life then succumbing to complaints and sadness - But enjoying life is the better choice because while drowning in misery might be easier it is also the only way to miss out on all of life.
Well. i just had to add that seeing your reply to charlotte made me happy and proud :-).
Oooh...glorious! (Insert ahhh-ahhh music here)
ReplyDeleteI admire your inner attitude and positive way to live your life every day! and you spread this positive aura around you!! ♥
ReplyDeleteWalk one day in my shoes Michael A Koontz - and say that again. It just shows that you have no clue about what some people are facing, and that there just is no choice, nothing positive left in some situations.
ReplyDeleteLove your postitive breaths of glorious beauty you post.
ReplyDeleteMy spirits lift and a smile jumps across my face!
Thank you so very much for sharing bits of you with us every day Robin Griggs Wood
re read what i wrote when you are having a better day Charlotte. I am clearly not the one asuming things about others. Your illness sucks, it always does whenever anyone have to endure any kind of hardship in life no matter how big or small it is.
ReplyDeleteHad life been just, then everyone would always and only enjoy every day in life exactly as that person want and need life to be for it to be fulfilling for that person.
That is how life should be, and enjoying every day the way we need it to be is certainly everyones right.
That does not change the fact that life is not made easier by viewing things negatively instead of with positive eyes that try to enjoy life as much as possible.
Now to answer your own expressed assumption - just because i always try to find the silver lining does seriously not mean that my life is or has been an easy walk in the park.
Simple fact is that i have seen a lot of crappy things and unhappy very broken life situations just as i have known plenty of people having it all to.
And yet. The most beatiful and strong soul i ever have known is one that has had a very unfulfilling life so far. But she makes the best out of a very wrong for her situation.
And no matter what.
The ones that thrive to enjoy what can be enjoyed in what is left of life, they always get more from life then the ones viewing it bleakly.
Sadly, that doesnt mean the factual things in life changes (such as being sick, unemployed, lost love or death et cetera happening, some things is all up to us and others such as being sick cant be changed ).
But choosing to view it as best as possible, at least make life better then numbing ourselves from life, that was all i said - and while you do not have to agree. That is a fact of life based on how people function.
None of that means that you have to agree with me.
You live your life your way, it is your life and it doesnt have to make sense to me and i am not assuming anything about your life (or anyone else i dont know). Nor am i judging how you live your life or what you feel and think. You do what you have to to survive and make the most out of your life.
And for the record. You are extremely wrong when it comes to my capacity for understanding others situations, need and point of view but i was not talking about you or anyone else when i said that it made me happy to see Robins choice to view life positively despite a very hard situation.
No matter Life's circumstances, there is ALWAYS good to be seen if only we open our eyes to it. And when we notice the good things, the ways in which Life is going right , then the bad things don't have as much power to sway our emotions. They still remain a fact of Life, but they no longer control it.
ReplyDeleteGood and bad come in the meaning that we assign to the circumstances. But circumstances themselves are ALWAYS neutral. ALWAYS! If we see the them as bad, then indeed, they will be bad. There can literally be no other way. But - and more importantly - if we see the gifts in them, or how we can rise above them, then they will be good. And again, there can be no other way. It is all about perception.
And, yes! I have survived and still live with the effects of my own Life threatening event and I know first hand how very challenging it is. But I have chosen to see it differently. I have chosen acceptance. My life is definitely not "what it could have been had that not happened to me." But it DID happen to me and "If only..." doesn't matter. It is irrelevant. And I daresay that is where so much pain and suffering originate - wondering "what if, if only..." etc.
From all of it, I hope that I can one day inspire others. And that is one of the most beautiful things we can do in this Life, as far as I'm concerned. And that is why Robin is one of my heroes...no pressure or anything Robin Griggs Wood ;) ♥
Christin McLeod you already inspire people - just by writing words such as you just did! I'm going to tag Cheryl Cooper to come see this. You so ROCKChristin!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Lauri Novak What beautiful words Christin McLeod You are an inspiration and have a beautiful spirit that shines so bright!! xo
ReplyDeleteSo wonderful comments here! Michael A Koontz
ReplyDeleteand also yours Christin McLeod so inspiring to read!! It is enriching! thank you! xo
Thank you so much, Steve Gould, Jacqueline Hodsdon and Kristie B. ... :o)
ReplyDeleteAnd, oh my, Michael A Koontz and Christin McLeod, I'm so happy to have your positive voices in this world!!
Hugs to Cheryl Cooper, Lauri Novak and Ursula Broicher, too!
Marvelous
ReplyDeleteOk, a last response to the positive club who thinks everyone can react joyfully to a seemingly never ending hell. My whole life so far has been awful. And more and more bad stuff happens every day as if it's not enough already. I just can't take any more. I stopped living. There's nothing neutral with being excluded from things by the decisions of others, and there's no neutrality in being left all alone in a prison by disabling illnesses. There is nothing neutral with having lost almost all friends due to that. There is nothing positive left in my life, nothing whatsoever, what is left now is just constant suffering, and a constant battle to get help to save my life if it's still possible, so far to no avail. Thanks for listening. Have fun.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you will not understand when I say this Charlotte Therese Björnström , but when you take control of your Life, regardless of the circumstances, you will no longer be a victim to the chains that bind you. They will dissolve and you will feel love and joy once again. It is ironic that you feel so very alone. In this thread you have had three different people tell you they understand suffering and have found the way out, given you the secrets to how you can rise above - out of love and compassion and understanding, no less - and yet you cannot even see this. I say this out of love, although I'm sure you don't feel that way. Everyone wants the very best for you. We're all on your side. We really are. I know I am. I genuinely hope that you can find peace within yourself. You've been asking for help. Maybe it is coming to you in a way you didn't expect. Open yourself to possibilities outside your expectations. Your world will burst open before you. ~ peace, love and hugs to you....
ReplyDeleteI love the beautiful light!! Such a wonderful feel to this! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing with the #LandscapePhotography theme!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Landscape Photography!
ReplyDeleteThe answer man is very wise .It's taking me awhile but I have found this out almost to late.Now ,Its a whole lot better.
ReplyDeletewow so so so so amazing
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