{"id":3733,"date":"2015-05-22T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2015-05-22T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:59:13","slug":"3733","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"It ain’t over… if we remember…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dancechicken\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is this way for me.\u00a0 When I am reading a really great book\u2026 I mean.. .off the charts good\u2026 I don\u2019t want it to end.\u00a0 It is with a bittersweet sentiment that I turn each page.\u00a0 I am SO enjoying it, hence the progression and page turning\u2026. but I don\u2019t want to stop reading.<\/p>\n

The same goes for an amazing movie.\u00a0 Or a picnic lunch.\u00a0 A long swim in the warm ocean waters of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

It is when I find that ultimate joy, and delight in something, that I just want it to keep going and going forever and ever.<\/p>\n

For some people it might be the ultimate dessert.\u00a0 You have in front of you an immaculate Peanut Butter Pie drizzled with Hot Fudge.\u00a0 That fork sinks into the very tip of the pie…\u00a0 then your first bite…. and you just don\u2019t want that flavor-fest to end.<\/p>\n

Or Corn Dogs at the County Fair\u2026 with Mustard AND Ketchup.<\/p>\n

There are a boatload of things like this in life\u2026 That are the ultimate in goodness, joy, and gladness.\u00a0 We so enjoy them.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 When they are done, they aren\u2019t truly over…\u00a0 at least I don’t think so.\u00a0 We still remember how they made us feel.\u00a0 We have had that particular experience that we should never forget\u2026 because it was such a grand gift.<\/p>\n

You know.\u00a0\u00a0 Tonight, I was thinking the same thing goes for people.\u00a0 When we meet someone who is incredibly golden, whose spirit is true and full and bright\u2026
\n\u2026. who \u2026.. \u2026. when they smile\u2026 fill the room with a genuine warmth.
\nIt is\u00a0 those people who we want to be around for the all and all.\u00a0 We want the likes of them to go on forever \u2026 because they are one of the souls who are filled with light in the world.<\/p>\n

But when they end\u2026 we feel like something grand has been lost.<\/p>\n

Yet.\u00a0 Just like an amazing book, or a tremendously good song\u2026 we have the ability to recollect and reflect on that very thing.\u00a0 We keep the message in our hearts.\u00a0 We can feel that beat in our step.\u00a0 We remember HOW they made us feel.<\/p>\n

We remember.\u00a0 Not because we are supposed to.\u00a0 We remember because it was so precious.\u00a0 And so good.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Seneca<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.\u00a0 —\u00a0 T. S. Eliot<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is this way for me.\u00a0 When I am reading a really great book\u2026 I mean.. .off the charts good\u2026 I don\u2019t want it to end.\u00a0 It is with a bittersweet sentiment that I turn each page.\u00a0 I am SO enjoying it, hence the progression and page turning\u2026. but I don\u2019t want to stop reading. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}