I was at a local bar and a distraught youn man appoached me. His girlfriend had run around on him and he was very depressed. He turned in desperation to the outsider and asked me.
" The wind is wonderful on a hot day but it is hell in the winter . Too much wind is a huricane but no wind makes for stagnant air. You don't own the wind but it cools you on a hot day.The wind is fickle and unpredictable so don't take it seriously and never depend on it. " I said
The young man understood my advice but unfortunately it created a huricane with my date. She gave me an earful and a few sharp elbows. "So am all I am to you is the wind".
Nobody brings anyone hapiness and you can not give it to me. The person in the mirror is the only one who can make you happy.
The young man seemed to feel better but I endured a windstorm for the rest of th e evening.
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Drum master
You met my source of wind and she was not exactly thrilled. I got a cold wind for the rest of the evening . More importantly the young man felt somewhat better I was worried about him for a while.
Beak,
Excellent analogy. You're beginning to sound like Rabbi David Fohrman over at Jewish World Review jwr
This weeks he wrote...
"...Over a thousand years ago, the rabbis of the Midrash noticed the analogy we have been wrestling with, and they had something quite intriguing to say about it.
They observed that the word which the Bible uses for 'desire' in each of our two verses is the Hebrew term 'teshukah'. While this fact may seem unremarkable in and of itself, they noticed that this word reappears in Scripture a number of times. They traced these various appearances — beyond Eve and Cain, the word reappears in connection with rain and with G-d Himself — and formulated what they saw was a pattern. Here is what they had to say:
There are four [basic] 'teshukos' in the world. The teshukah of Eve for Adam, the teshukah of the Evil Inclination for Cain, the teshukah of rain for land, and the teshukah of the Master of the Universe for humanity (Bereishis Rabbah, 20:7).
Again, they cite verses (which I have not reproduced here) to substantiate each one of these conclusions. But look at these four statements carefully. What are the rabbis really saying here?
It seems to me that they are defining the word teshukah — and they are making a sweeping, almost radical, statement in the process. Look carefully at the four examples they give — the desire of Eve for Adam, of the Evil Inclination for Cain, of rain for land, and of G-d for humanity — and see if you can isolate a common denominator between them.
While you are musing about that, you might notice that some of the "desires" which the verse speaks about don't sound much like desires at all. Let's look, for example, at the last two: The desire of rain for land, and the desire of the Almighty for humanity. If you were given the words "rain" and "land", and someone asked you which of these two "desires" the other, what would you say?
I would say "land". Land needs rain to nourish its crops; rain doesn't need land at all. And the same holds for "G-d" and "humanity". A basic tenet of theology states that G-d is a perfect Being, and that He has no needs at all. So if we are thinking about G-d and humans — if anything, it would be humanity that desires G-d. Why do the sages have it the other way around?"
...wind, rain, women. G_d love 'em all.
-FJ
Land without rain yields nothing and is worthless. However rain is unpredictable so don't count on it just be thankful when it arrives.
Love, Reign O'er me. The Who, Quadrophenia...
"Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea.
Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers'
Laying in the fields.
Love, Reign o'er me.
Love, Reign o'er me, rain on me.
Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky.
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high.
Love Reign O'er me.
On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain.
The nights are hot and black as ink
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain."
-FJ
...this storm too will pass.
Great advice, Beak. Though I had to LOL about your date's reaction. Glad you're out enjoying yourself. :)
Reminds me of the windstorm generated when in reaction to my girlfriend's new perfume I asked her if she'd run out of people to douse with man repellent.
But she never wore it again....
Mr Beamish
Honesty is often not the best policy. I am still paying for that comment.
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