Most of this week ive been feeling nostalgic and down, maybe thats what contributed to my fall on monday, anyhow, ive been feeling the need to escape to my old tv programmes and non-jewish music. I have not done it so much but i really want to escape into it and just have a day off life really...prob not coming from a good place...dont really know how to get out of it.

Anyways, on my lunch break today, i felt tempted to to go to the internet cafe round the corner to watch one of my old programs....nuh uh - red alert! thats way too dangerous, clearly a ploy of the addiction/yetser horah, so instead, i went and sat by a beautiful lake with ducks and colourful trees and had a nice a&w instead.

I saw an interesting sign: 'please dont feed the ducks! they have all they need in the water and bread makes them sick' - i thought - we're the ducks, Hashem gives us all we need and searching for extras that we want makes us sick. Please dont feed the ducks!

That was beautifull Honest. DONT FEED THE DUCKS

that's a great mashal, thanks!

and if Dr.Seuss would meet you and Bards he would say:
don't feed the ducks
don't get off your trucks
don't feed the ducks on trucks
don't put the ducks on trucks
don't put trucks on ducks
if something comes flying
while you are driving
then you need to be duckin'
while you are truckin'

Quack quack!

you're all quackers!!!

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To paraphrase President Reagan: "Sorry, I forgot to DUCK!"  :D ;D : : :

From one of the quacks around here to the king of all mice, Mickey:

Keep the chart and the dates and stuff - as long as it helps you. If you see that it is making you a little crazy, then ignore the dates and charts and stuff...later, when you think it will help you, think about the dates and the charts and stuff, then....well, you get the idea.

Use it, then use something else and pretend the dates aren't even there.

Sound crazy to be required not make any sense? Well, it's what Chazal mean when they say "L'Olam y'hei odom Orum b'yir'ah". I need to be a trickster when it comes to this stuff. Tricky, tricky, tricky.....play dirty with lust.  :o Just like hopping between "bishvili nivrah Olam" and "va'anochi ofor vo'efer" from the Rebbe R' Elimelech (or maybe Reb Simcha Bunim?) - you gotta have those papers in those pockets and take 'em out and use them when necessary, even though they seem to contradict one another! Same thing here. It's OK being an idiot for sobriety and sanity's sake.

GEVALDIG CHEVRA

But.....







Whatever you do,

DO NOT FORGET TO FEED THE MOUSE!!!!

Yosef that was really gevaldig

Rabbi FrumFriend, this is not my thread;

Here we say:

An Honest Mouse is really GEVALDIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!

reb yosef - im very small, only a mouse, there's plenty of room for EVERYONE to be gevaldig on OUR thread!

I understood a chazal in a new light today. I remember a Chazal (althought i cant remember where) that when the posuk mentions Avrohom's age when he passes away, it introduces it with the days of the years of his life - because, he utilised each day to its full potential, he really lived each and every day.

Ive always been an escapist, i suppose it goes with the LA territory, i often just look forward to being alone, so i can read, listen to music (im only refering to periods of sanity) watch a film, etc... but i realise that during those periods, i am not living my life, im on pause, time is ticking around me but im not doing anything productive.

Sure, we need time to chill out and recharge but if escaping is the focus, then im not living my life, my focus is to not live my life. Obviously i cant be avrohom avinu, but the lesson is there for me - to appreciate what i have in my life and make it count. Time with my wife, the kids, learning, even work. The goal has to be, to try and live each day, albeit, one day at a time

an honest mouse wrote on 11 Nov 2010 21:58:


You may be referring to a drush on the passuk Avraham zakein ba bayamim - he came with all his days.

maybe, thanks! as always, i can count on you chavrusy!

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