Curtain call

Sometimes things just have to end. Curtains falling show is over and its time to move on. The real trick is to know when that time is. I've been accused of bating a dead horse. I've looked back on my life and I can see times where I should have left well enough alone. But hindsight is 20-20, perhaps even better. So one must ask oneself...

How can I learn to detect that curtain so I'm not caught in front of it when it falls and keep myself from making a total ass of myself?

There's no real answer to that I think. Experience is the only true teacher in an arena of life and I guess I'm just a really slow learner. I sometimes can sort of sense it. Take my bow and head off to await the next 'show'. But did I really catch it on time.. perhaps just a bit longer and the 'show' could have been fantastic. What ifs, coulda beens, and possibilities plaugue the mind and you begin to doubt your own thoughts even.

Fear is a huge motivator in the everday lives of people. We fear what will happen if we don't work, get a paycheck, or create our own future. It cripples and motivates people all at once pushing them to do things and keeping them from attempting others. Its good and bad all in one. So we live.. we cope with it in all its forms. Perhaps its not even recognizable as fear in some of its forms. It turns into duty and responsibility for some people.

I don't know anymore and I'm ramblings.... so here shall be the end.

Neji's Shadow - The Curtain has Fallen
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