is fulfillment in that?? by Carl Walkersome say i should death to self
where is the fulfillment in that?
ask, ask, please ask
Where is the fulfillment anyway?
Consider, with me, this
all my life I've sought fulfillment
aggressively,
striving for life through what I could do
believing I'd get life from getting
accomplishing
doing, gaining, climbing, conquering
getting life from people doing
what I believed they should
getting life from things
getting life from circumstances
my thirst has not been slated
my hunger not assuaged
my effort has not produced good fruit
although my things surround me
the love of others does not
and I am unfulfilled
I have pheared death to self
believing I'd die
but I cannot care more for people
than for things unless I die
to what in me thirts for things
more than people
I cannot care more for others
than I care for how others treat me
unless I die to wanting to get life
from how people treat me
the fulfillment is not in how people
treat me when I want to get life from how
people treat me
the fulfillment is in dying to how people treat me
and being able to love others without
my self as a goal
it changes the way I treat them
and it changes the way some treat me
in the some is more fulfillment by far
than in the many who never treated
me like I wanted anyway
it bears good fruit to die to self
I am receivng much much
MUCH MUCH
fulfillment
than ever before
death to self is the compost
that good fruit grows on 07/04/2002 Posted on 07/04/2002 Copyright © 2025 Carl Walker
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