{"id":943,"date":"2010-04-07T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:42:00","slug":"no-feeling-is-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"NO Feeling Is Final…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was reading this poem by Rilke that my cousin has posted on Facebook as she was remembering a cousin that died too young.  <\/span><\/p>\n

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,<\/em>
<\/em>
Then walks with us silently out of the night.<\/em>
These are the words we dimly hear:<\/em>
\u201cYou, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.<\/em>
Embody me.<\/em>
Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in.<\/em>
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.<\/em>
Just keep going. No feeling is final.<\/em>
Don\u2019t let yourself lose me.<\/em>
Nearby is the country they call life.<\/em>
You will know it by its seriousness.<\/em>
Give me your hand.\u201d<\/em>
(Rilke)<\/em><\/p>\n

I am by no means a scholar.  I wish I could be at times, wish I had the discipline and drive to be, yet I am who I am.  Of course, I don’t think that is a bad thing… it is just a fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I was reading this, I could help thinking of the line that  says,”Just keep going.  No feeling is final.”  I am not sure what that is meant to mean but it spoke to me.  No feeling is ever final.  I needed to hear that.  Sometimes I try to work through a situation and deal with emotions that surface.  I just want to be done with the emotions.   Yet when I find those emotions resurfacing, often times I am so disappointed in myself.  It is because maybe I find disappointment in myself for not being “over it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I think of my dad.  It is a life of roller coaster of emotions. Yet, when the unpleasant ones surface again, I am so dishearted.  I am frustrated that I have to deal with those emotions again<\/em>!<\/span>  No feeling is ever final.<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is never final, is it?  It is a process.  It is a journey.  I don’t want to be scared to live and love due to fear.  I want to love big, as this is how I love.  I have to accept the fact that I hurt big too.  It must be OK that my feels are on-going.  They are never final.  Feelings for me is what keeps me alive.  <\/span><\/p>\n

“Just keep going.  No Feeling is Final.”<\/em><\/strong>  I like that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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