Quote, unquote

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.- Leo Tolstoy

I love reading people’s quotes. I seldom try to find out the context they spoke or who they were. Rather, I apply them to the present and make my own jazz about it. Here Tolstoy isn’t far from the mark about life as we see it, know it and live it. We plan, plan, plan, review, test and sometimes we abandon plans and never get to take off the plans left coz there’s just not enough time for execution coz we’re dead by the time we want to start. That’s not to say we needn’t plan or review- we just need to live as we do what we do in life. Sometimes we get to be so anxious about what might happen we don’t even start and never get to know what would have happened yet we spent days pondering at possibilities.
The word test just brought to mind a title that came when I was offline. There’s a poster I pass by at work quite a lot. It’s on safety and simply says “Don’t trust. Test.”
Applicable to life isn’t it? I think it’s very appropriate when it comes to relationships that’ll result in marriage. After, all it’s a pit we’re going to be in for the rest of our life so why shouldn’t we test. We fall in love and we get to trust our life partner. But when should we let go of our instincts when it comes to trusting them? I totally agree with TDJ on his post on junk.
I believe everything I come across is for a reason after all "Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important sometimes. " - Richard Bach