close your eyes...
Dec. 31st, 2001 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kuangning...and humour me for a moment.
Hold your cupped hands out in front of you, and imagine that I'm filling them. I'm pouring light and warmth into your hands, I'm giving you tangible joy; as much as you can hold, and more. It's a golden stream, liquid sunlight, love and home and so much beauty that it almost makes you cry. And it's yours, now, yours alone to do with as you wish.
What are you going to do with it?
Tell me. No peeking, now; I want your answer before you read mine. It's important to me.
Was to do with it the only thing I could do. I shared it with you. It didn't diminish my own store; quite the opposite, in fact. The more joy you have for yourself, the more you want the people who matter to you to have it, too, in full measure. And seeing them gain it increases your own joy.
So thank you, for your words of thanks... but the pleasure's mine, I assure you. In fact, I still thank you, all of you, for being the people you are, for letting me share with you, for inspiring me to want to share with you. And, yes, I had a lovely birthday, quite possibly the best I've ever had... and I'm still looking forward to the best year I've had yet, though not the best I'll ever have if work and love and optimism have much to do with it.
Hold your cupped hands out in front of you, and imagine that I'm filling them. I'm pouring light and warmth into your hands, I'm giving you tangible joy; as much as you can hold, and more. It's a golden stream, liquid sunlight, love and home and so much beauty that it almost makes you cry. And it's yours, now, yours alone to do with as you wish.
What are you going to do with it?
Tell me. No peeking, now; I want your answer before you read mine. It's important to me.
Was to do with it the only thing I could do. I shared it with you. It didn't diminish my own store; quite the opposite, in fact. The more joy you have for yourself, the more you want the people who matter to you to have it, too, in full measure. And seeing them gain it increases your own joy.
So thank you, for your words of thanks... but the pleasure's mine, I assure you. In fact, I still thank you, all of you, for being the people you are, for letting me share with you, for inspiring me to want to share with you. And, yes, I had a lovely birthday, quite possibly the best I've ever had... and I'm still looking forward to the best year I've had yet, though not the best I'll ever have if work and love and optimism have much to do with it.
