Thought For Today ~Dreams
All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity;
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalknet
and some dreams are but nightmares
Random Jottings ~ Dreams
her dream road trip didn’t turn out so well
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don’t ask what your dreams mean
you don’t want to know
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nothing happens until we dream it
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woman is a creation of dreams and desires
not a creation of wants and needs
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she dreamed of finding the perfect lover
and then she bought one
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OH GOD! she exclaimed
then she realised it was just a hot wet dream
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real life is both a bad dream and a nightmare
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the future belongs to women who follow their dreams
Men Don’t Do Relationships
women need and desire to be cherished, understood, loved
men want sex
Men evolved as solitary hunters, and their main contribution to the human race was the ability to hit a moving target so that everybody could eat. Sometimes several men from the same tribe gathered together as a cooperative team so they could kill something bigger so that more people could eat.
Any woman reading that will immediately see where the male fascination with sports comes from. Sports are all about the ability of one man to hit a moving target, often with the help of the other players on his team. Cricket, baseball, football, basketball ~ lady, you name it and it’s the same thing ~ personal responsibility, hand-eye coordination, spacial awareness, calmness under pressure, hitting a moving target, instant gratification, win / lose. And it comes from tens of thousands of years of evolution.
This is one reason why men like to wear uniforms, hats, colours, insignia that indicates their personal competence and membership of a successful team. Teams are not discussion groups, a sports team is really a hunting and killing machine. Every man feels that he is perfectly capable of solving his own problems and does not see any reason to talk about them with anybody else; up to and including you. This is the reason a man will never ask for directions ~ real men do not use in-car satellite navigation because the damn woman keeps on offering advice.
Nowhere in there does it say anything about feelings, discussion, emotion, nurturing, understanding, socialising, and asking for help. Men are not wired to discuss, listen, feel, accept, empathise, or talk just for the sake of talking. Most of the time when a woman really wants her guy to show some empathy and understanding what he will do is offer her a solution. He thinks he is being caring and loving by solving her problems, and she knows he is being uncaring and indifferent, trivialising her feelings by not listening to her.
Actually most good men try to listen to their lady, but what he hears is the blah blah blah of moaning, nagging, complaining, and talking just for the sake of talking.
When men do talk it’s usually in a language women do not easily understand; either because it’s technical or it sounds like monosyllabic grunting.
A woman may dream of and desire a perfect man, but smart women know that ‘perfect man’ is an oxymoron. In many ways her perfect man would be gay, or at least metrosexual ~ and what real woman would want that?
Real men just don’t do non-sexual relationships ~ unless they are prepared to try, try, and try again.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Marmaduke is a male bear
he likes sitting all by himself
thinking about nothing much
Life Is Not a Game
be grateful for what you have and stop complaining
The world is full of people longing for change; to live somewhere else, to have a better and different relationship, to have a healthier life, or to finally get out of this fucking lockdown. The grass is always greener on the other side ~ until you get there and you realise it’s pretty much the same as it was where you just left. Longing for and dreaming of the next bigger and better thing, being richer, having a ‘nicer’ partner, having a really cool car ~ well that only makes us discontented, unhappy, and restless.
There are a couple of secrets; #1 is to be grateful for what you have #2 is to make the most of what you have #3 is to protect what you have. OK, that’s three secrets.
If you take a long hard honest look at your life you will probably discover that you don’t actually need much more than you already have. Well, OK, women always need more shoes.
Most of us become discontented, unhappy, and restless when we start to compare ourselves with other people. Your best friend owns a new Jaguar and you’re driving a 10 years old Nissan, and for some perverse reason that makes you unhappy. Be grateful that you don’t have to walk. Make the most of that Nissan; keep it clean, have it regularly serviced, use the right grade of gas. In the meantime your best friend is paying so freaking much for her Jaguar that she uses cheap gas, which will fuck the engine in no time. Your best friend isn’t protecting what she already has. And when the Jaguar’s engine expires she will be walking
That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t want to improve ourselves, to work harder, to strive to be ‘better’ ~ we should because that’s part of human nature. But don’t compare yourself to anyone else, comparisons are invidious. Life Is Not a Game. There are no winners and losers. We are Born, we Live, and we Die. That’s it.
So live a better life, and being miserable because you can’t move to a 5 bed 4 bathroom home is not living a better life ~ especially as there’s only yourself and your partner to consider. The kids have left home ~ K.I.S.S.
You first of all have a duty to yourself; your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Work on that instead of worrying about a ‘better’ car, vacation, home…. Of course if you are a woman you do always need more shoes.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
it doesn’t like cheap gas
Lazy Sunday Music
lazy Sunday afternoon
I’ve got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away
Quite suddenly I’ve some to believe that there are some songs an English Gentleman shouldn’t play of a Sunday afternoon, and some others that perfectly fit the Sabbath. Ergo, this is the first of what is going to be a regular feature on this here blog. Little Star by Madonna. This is for a very close friend.
I don’t expect you to completely agree with me.
But then an Englishman never gives a hoot for another person’s opinions.
These days I’m more Californian, cosmopolitan, transatlantic, edgy, than died-in-the-wool, stuffy, staid English Gentleman
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and I have no plans to amputate my ear
Arc Troubles
it wasn’t raining until Noah built the arc
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Noah though he could fix the arc
with just a phillips screwdriver
the geese disagreed
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with thanks to Paula Light for the phillips, thought, geese prompt
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Canada Geese, the golfers least favourite bird
Choices, Chances, and Changes
your decisions create your ultimate destiny
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some women choose to drink alone
for a while anyhow
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make good choices today
so you don’t have regrets tomorrow
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change is inevitable, success is optional
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life is the sum of all your choices and chances
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she did not love you
but you took a chance because your love was true
it turned out that was the wrong choice
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the true measure of intelligence is the ability to change
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a wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never will
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
there are far better women ahead
than the ones we choose to leave behind
Make Things Happen
nothing happens unless first we dream
That Jigsaw Does Turn Into a Car
The first step in almost every journey is knowing where you want to go. The first step in any project is knowing what it is that we want to achieve. To achieve anything meaningful we must first have some sort of a plan.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade….. ~ President John F. Kennedy
Less than seven years later Neil Armstrong was the first man to step onto the surface of the moon. The whole Apollo program cost about $25.4 billion, and that dream only took about a thousand years after the rocket was invented in China. The lesson is that to realise our dreams we must not only have a plan, we must also have the means and the perseverance to keep on going when it all seems hopeless.
There are a couple of pertinent lessons from history;
If at first you don’t succeed try, try, and try again. ~ Robert the Bruce
and perhaps this more interesting and valuable piece of advice;
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
However, one must always remember that some dreams are totally misguided and the projects they turn into become utterly stupid delusional chimera. One example of a dream turning into a South Sea Bubble is Tesla, the Californian manufacturer of expensive electric cars. Despite that their least expensive Model 3 costs some £39,000 in England, and their most expensive roadster will set you back about £200,000, it will take about 1,600 years for the company to earn back the amount of money invested in it. Frankly, I think you’d be better off investing in bitcoin, and that’s the investment equivalent of playing roulette.
A fool and his money are soon parted. ~ King James Bible
The dreams of most men revolve around the equilateral triangle of money, sex, and power ~ and the greatest of these is money. Given enough funds most men can get all the casual sex they want. And, if you have enough money, some ‘friends’ and lots of perseverance, even a stupid man can become very powerful. I cite Presidents Trump and Biden as my examples.
Some say that the mark of a man is not what he achieves, but what he longs to achieve. And that all human activity is driven by desire. All I know is that we should be very careful what we set our heart on ~ we may get it.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
that’s supposed to be an ark
oh Good Grief!
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Doing It All For My Baby
love is the genesis of genius
OK, so I have a friend. Even a reclusive writer, deep in solitary lockdown, is allowed to have a friend. Especially if she’s very special, attractive, and sexy. All writers need a muse, and maybe poets feel the need for a muse more than most. Anyway, this Huey Lewis And The News tune is for her. She likes ghosts, ghouls, and graveyards.
I like the video, even if it is too long.
Please try to keep moving your feet to the beat.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
it’s not every woman who has had a poetry anthology written for them
Scenes on Sunday ~ Mustang
great things never come out of comfort zones
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
long straight roads out there
