Mere Baubles or Real Jewels

There are baubles and then there are real jewels...and the lady I have come home to is a real jewel. No cold stones with only intrinsic value, no associations with bad emotions and treatment, just the warmest welcome and the greatest love. To me that is priceless and rises way above others views, expressed in the recent past.

I have had three loves in my life and in that I have been lucky. Some never have one true love. But love can turn sour like milk left too long. In the second instance of finding love in my life it did just that. Instead of turning to cream as it should have done, for want of a better description it turned into a mouldy cheese. Not due to anything on my part though. I would still be licking the cream, if had been down to me.

To continue the 'They say it’s no use crying over spilt milk' theme - I did my fair share a few years back.

So, I count only two true loves in my life....that of my late wife and that of my present. Jewels are nothing if they have no meaning behind them, but simple and unconditional love is everything. My jewel is here with me now and that is all that matters. As it says in the Bible - ‘Solomon, in all his glory, was not arraigned as are the lilies of the field’. I have my lily and am glad and deem myself very privileged to have found her.

We have been together since 2006 and met in the UK. She has family in Massachusetts and New York and we live in Naples, Fl where I am now. We have quite a considerable business ‘empire’ and given her relative youth, we both work at it together. I should say we ‘play’ with periods of what might be called ‘work’ in between.

All our travels even including my recent trips provide material for my books. Just started number eight. When I look back to the period of three years, just prior to 2006, I don’t recognise that episode as anything but an aberration compared to where I am now. Some people in life just never measure up in any way shape or form. 

I met one of that type - small life, small mind and completely lacking in imagination. I suppose there are lots of people like that...those that never take risks and in so doing achieve nothing worthwhile in their lives.

Yet, it is through risk taking, whether it is in business or life, that things are achieved. Some people don’t have that sort of courage or are cowards and therefore achieve little or nothing in their lives, whether it is in the realm of material things or in affairs of the heart. They settle for less and live relatively miserable existences. On a treadmill, not wholly fulfilled, sacrificing all that could be or could have been for a false sense of security and ‘duty’ and......... also denying that chance to those around them.

Enough philosophising for today.

Ciao