Be Careful What You Pray For

We owe it to ourselves to preserve the old ways of life, the traditions.  But we owe it to ourselves not to be so conditioned to doing something the same way for so long that we stagnate for the sake of it.

Life is one long courtship of things we want and fear.  When something is to be avoided at all costs, we tend to vision it so vividly that it has no choice but to come our way.  The same mental law turns back what we want as well.  We have to be careful about what we want because we are apt to get it.