Five-Minute Friday: See

It's "Five-Minute Friday" again!  Writing for 5 minutes flat - no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.

Today's word is "see"

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What do I see when I look at you?  What do you see when you look at me?

Do we just see each other's physical shells . . . our bodies, our faces?

Or do we go beyond that and see our hearts, our souls, what makes each of us tick?
Where we have come from and how that path has shaped our lives, how it influences our present?

Is a pretty woman or a handsome man more valuable?  Do they deserve more respect, more attention?

Take a person, any person.  Dress them up and make them shine.  See how people respond to them.  Now, take that same person and dress them down; maybe smudge them up a bit.  Do people respond to them in the same way as they did when that person was all bright and shiny?

Look at Mother Teresa.  What a smile!  Those eyes and that smile!  She saw people; into their inner core; not just what their outer covering relayed to the world.  Her love for people shone through on her face.  That rugged, wrinkled, absolutely beautiful face.

Do what we see in others portray what we actually see in ourselves?  Do we treat others in any specific way based on how we treat ourselves or how we think others should treat us?

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And there y'all go.  My five-minutes worth of "See."
If you'd like to join in, Click HERE to go to Lisa-Jo's blog - The Gypsy Mama

Thanks for reading; y'all be blessed!
Sharmie

Five-Minute Friday: Opportunity

Remember Sara? I wrote about her a couple of days ago.
Click HERE

One of the things that Sara did on her blog each Friday was to link-up with The Gypsy Mama's blog.  Lisa-Jo (author of The Gypsy Mama) created 5-Minute Fridays.  

In her own words:

Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays.
On Fridays we write with gusto, unselfconscious and flat out.
What can you write in five minutes flat?

We write because we love words and the relief it is to just write them without worrying if they’re just right or not. So we take five minutes on Friday and write like we used to run when we were kids.

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Well, y'all, I'm finally going to do this!  Actually, I had made a couple of attempts when I was over at Facebook; but those don't really count.  Facebook is not a blog.  Now, Swirlings . . . Swirlings is a blog!

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Today's 5-minute topic is "opportunity".

Without further adieu . . .

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Whether we know it or not, we are bombarded with opportunities every day.  It's our choice to partake of them . . . or to reject them.  When we say, "I'll do that tomorrow," we are essentially risking not being able to receive that opportunity again.  Sometimes tomorrow never comes.

What opportunities have come your way lately?  Which ones have you embraced and which ones have you ignored?  Are you content with your choices, both ways?

We don't have to welcome every opportunity that comes into our lives; that would actually be foolish.  But.  We should examine each opportunity as to its worthiness.  Is this a valid opportunity?  Will it help me or will it hinder me?  What do I need to do to get going with this opportunity?

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OK.  There ya go.  My first 5-minute topic.

(And lemme tell y'all - for me, that was a bit of a challenge; being the pondering thinker that I am as I write; fiddle, sometimes it takes me days and weeks to think-through a blog post before it ever gets written!).

What about y'all?  Anyone want to link up The Gypsy Mama and participate in her Five-minute Fridays?    If so, here's her blog link again.

Thanks for reading.

Y'all be blessed,

Sharmie