Insight Stories

Inspired by Rebellious_Soul...  Rebs   We live in an era of over-abundance right now. Too much of everything. It’s a candy store with endless glass counters filled with chocolates and caramels and sugary what-nots. We don’t even have to take a number. Just walk in and help ourselves. The internet has laid the entire world at our feet. I can be in India or Kenya or the Philippines in a boot-up and a couple of keystrokes. W...

Any time of year in the south is normally hot, but the summer I turned eighteen, was as if Hades himself had come up from his depths and brought with him the skin scorching, water vaporizing torment to lay to waste on our little South Carolina town. I remember that summer with vivid detail as it was the summer my life would be drastically changed forever, and find a different course then what I’d mapped out for it as a ki...

Staring up into the night sky stars Little points of light, shining in the darkness Tiny and small, yet grand and majestic Too far to ever reach, too present to possibly ignore Each point completely alone, yet all interwoven in time and space Taken each or as a whole, they represent the lesson I've learned That above all else, it is all a matter of perspective

They say: "don't sweat the small stuff."Hearing this saying many times. Don't know from where it came.But often in my head it chimes.When life plays another game. Tricks always getting in the way. Life bites once more where I sit.This record again begins to play.Teeth marks cause me to forget. It is all small stuff, don't sweat.Mind overwhelmed, lost again.Fear finds a crack, I start to fret.Causing reality to leak and dr...

New beginnings On the brink of the future I tentatively make a print on unsullied white virgin snow. Will I be able to take a clean, sharp, tidy route? No messy scuttles. No smudges or side steps. Straight onwards to the shining new future. What will it hold? Living every second on the edge of Time I remember, in childhood, thinking each new day took me closer to the day I would die. Now I can treasure each moment and ope...