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Circle of Life
By Diana J Legun
Friday, June 01, 2012
Rated "G" by the Author.
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Everything in stages. That is the secret and sentence in life.
 (drawing by djl of an idea from anonymous)
Frame 1: We begin with all the energy and innocence given a human being. Because we're cute, people love us even though we are absolutely dependent and messy and make sounds that have grown persons trembling in fear and aversion. Frame 2: We continue with learnings that thrill those who know more than we do, and that makes them feel very, very important. Frame 3: We sink into self-awareness that takes our smiles away and those of anyone around us . They cringe at having anything to do with us, especially our parents. Frame 4: Full of self-confidence and no fear, we prance into the world with guns a blazin' and eyelashes sweeping and there is nothing we can not do. Frame 5: Having been put in our place, we try to maintain our position with as much dignity as conditions allow. Frame 6: After a plethora of attempts and failures, wins and losses, we just settle into our own skins without worrying what anyone else thinks. Frame 7: The ride that seemed so long, our life roller coaster, is over now and we are told by the smooth-faced people to get off. We are taken aback about being seen as non-persons just because we are so done. Well.....
The End
6/1/2012
by djl
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| Reviewed by Annabel Sheila |
6/4/2012 |
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Your sure nailed the essence of the circle in this one Diana! Very kool...
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| Reviewed by Ronald Hull |
6/3/2012 |
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I like your little sketchies. I did some once for a monogram I wrote. Your cycle applies to the majority, but we are touched most by those who do not fit the cycle or whose lives are cut short. I once saw this done with handwriting and it was really telling.
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| Reviewed by Jerry Bolton |
6/1/2012 |
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| Well you just took us on life wonderful ride and the stages we bluster through and then wind up geared down in one place trying to act all noble about the past. We fool nobody. I liked this. |
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| Reviewed by Odin Roark |
6/1/2012 |
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| Thinking and contemplating that which is beyond, transcends most of the silliness of religion's mind games, and truly asks we take up a personal relationship with "existence" and the infinity that follows. Somewhere in there is a power greater than our own, and certainly greater than any clerical self-fashioning prophetic identity working to have us follow. To follow is to be led. To be is to be. We are never done, Diana, unless we choose to think it so. |
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