Things will be Better

There are times when you  actually learn. In my life I can remember distinctly a couple times. Every child knows they are in school to learn. Most children think they could learn just as well without school. It would be more fun to go fishing, run in the woods or just play hide and seek. I can’t speak for city kids, this is more town or country feelings.

Learning times:

I played the trumpet in school. I became ‘first’ trumpet. When the band director (Mr Hatley)  needed to show me something he would take my trumpet and go over the run or bars in question, and it was music to my ears, he was a trumpet player. We moved to another town. The director couldn’t show me anything. His trumpet playing ‘sucked’ (today’s term), so I knew it all, and dropped out of the band.

Two weeks later I had to attend PTA with my mom. The principal introduced the band director as a soloist, that man was a marvel on the clarinet. The music was beautiful, I had never heard such range, fingering, tonguing and rich volume. As a 12 year old smarta$$ kid, that evening I learned a lesson, “the world is bigger than little Jackie.”

And then there are times you really learn something you already knew, but hadn’t truly learned it. (make sense?). Once a lady teaching an adult class said, “I was taught a long time ago by a wise woman, ‘THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE’, I have paid attention, and learned that is ALWAYS true.”

It was not until a couple days later I was pondering that saying, and there in my pick-up truck, driving on Hickory Grove road, the learning process took place. it hit me, “Yes, things are subject to Change.”  Good or bad situations change, lives change, families change.

Things and situations ALWAYS:

Go from bad to good.

Good to bad.

Bad to worse

Good to better BUT very seldom do things REMAIN the same.

Some folks? You will never know their troubles or burdens, and then there are those who want every one to share their troubles no matter how small or large. To those folk, ‘no one’s troubles are as bad as mine’.

I am reminded of the old spiritual, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen!”

That said about troubles, I think EVERYONE needs someone to talk to, to share their problems and grief. Sherry and I are fortunate, we have each other.

I just want you (and me) to know, no matter how rough things get, “THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE”.

Thanks for coming this way.

Nite Shipslog

PS:

At times, everyone thinks ‘things will never change’, BUT they will.

(That young lady teaching the class at the time, was apparently a healthy woman, but she died a short time later, yes, things are subject to change.)

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This is a Roadmaster Buick. When it was built some folk thought it was the ultimate, there will never be anything better.

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This is a $20,000 Rolex

This is a $20 Timex. If all you want is the time, this Timex keeps perfect time, just as the Rolex.

 

100 Years ago that could not be said, but things are subject to change, even time keepers.