Comments on: February’s Strengthening. We know it as Love.

By: Talking Story with Rosa Say

Talking Story with Rosa Say — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:16:32 +0000

You’ll Be the Company you Keep…

And “keep them” or not, you’ll be the company you love with Aloha. We have all heard the sentiment of my post title in some form. Perhaps our parents said it to us first, as they protectively watched us choose our earliest budding friendships, fully kn…

By: Rosa Say

Rosa Say — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:23:37 +0000

What a rich comment Dave, there is so much here! You are so spot-on about this:

This paying attention part is half of the equation towards success. The other part is “doing.”

I laughed out loud readng your final bit about that Bud Light commercial :-) While I fully intend to be like a dog with a bone about “the act of loving as a strengthener” (knowing me as you do, you can probably tell I really, really like that concept...) I must tell you that your favoured references to The Road not Taken and The Yellow Brick Road always come to me with any mention of “its not about the destination, its about the journey.” Then there was this little funny from Hugh MacLeod as @gapingvoid on Twitter this morning:

Note to Web 2.0 peeps: Please never again use the word "Journey" unless you're actually doing some traveling, thanks.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:45:43 +0000

In the context of work and based upon experience, the word love does not compute for me. The only relevance and meaning for me to the words love and work, are what I read by all others who have found it.

I love your sentence Rosa: “Opportunities present themselves as long as I pay attention.” This paying attention part is half of the equation towards success. The other part is “doing.”

And as the Grateful Dead once so eloquently said: “…and you know that notion just crossed my mind.”

The act of loving is a strengthener reminds me of “its not about the destination, its about the journey.” And it reminds me of the simple act of paying attention to things in our life which we should be grateful for.

I can’t help but to think of the Bud Light commercials where the guy tries to get the word love out of his mouth while talking to the girl. The waitress comes by and the guy says he’d LOVE another beer. For me, the girl is work and the next beer is reading a good book. (good thing I’m not single :-)