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Fire Sparks (Photo credit: Kirrus ) ... It's what the spark gets used for that matters. Great ideas come to more people than you think. Most of us don't want to get off the couch.

The caveat to the promise. A reminder that all things come at their time. 

44581 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Can be looked at in two ways. Pessimistic. Life will always have disappointments. Expecting it means that when it comes, it won't be a surprise. Optimistic. Life will always have disappointments. Why wallow in them when you know it will get better?

 (Photo credit: quinn.anya ) Solutions only come around once. It's is an opportunity that is realized, taken advantage of and made real. So solutions are a combination of effort and opportunity. No amount of effort can solve a problem if it's time hasn't come. And no amount of effort can solve a problem if the opportunity to solve it has passed. You can only solve it on the next one. That is why there also solutions who time hasn't come. They solve things that have not become problems yet.

Landscape from Assam (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This reminds me of an Arabic saying " All of life there are only two days, a day for you and a day against you ". Which means that things either work out for us or it doesn't. Which is seems obvious except that most people think that every day is for them, that things will always work out. The proverb then goes into many directions, many ways that it continues. One version goes " When time is for you, be thankful and when it is against you, have patience ". Sometimes, the next verse is specific to the recipient, a reminder of sorts. It sort of has resonance with the whole Buddhist "life is like a wheel" concept, sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down.

Problems happens all the time. We spend a lot energy on it. The thing is, we are the one who decide whether we chose to spend that energy being angry or looking for a solution. 

People have these ideas and they hold on to them hard. They will fight reason and logic just to keep holding on to them. The value of the idea to them is more important than the idea itself. But ideas have a strange way of working. Sometimes, the same idea in two different hands, yield two different things. So this idea comes about that perhaps our ideas may not serve us best. Perhaps our ideas, when shared, in the hands of others, will bring forth things that we don't even expect. So let go of your ideas when there is simply too much to not let it go. Because when you do, it makes you ready to accept the next idea that comes by.