Michael A. McGuire

For My Children (When They Are Ready)

Everything in Life has its opposite which comes 
full circle throughout Time. 

For all the Love given and received; you will hate 
and be hated as much.   Though you don\'t wish it
to be so, it will occur nonetheless. 

For all the sorrow and regret you feel during your 
years, you will be isolated by your happiness and 
immune to loss.    Though you wish to know why
it is so, it will escape your reasoning.

You will make and keep many friends throughout 
your journey and have others say \"enemy\" and 
slander your name behind your back.  

Remember that true friends are kept by brutal 
honesty; and enemies are maintained by fear of 
true self they can\'t understand or obtain.

You will be praised and exalted as well as shunned
and ignored.  No matter what others say about you,
it will only matter if you allow it; so be yourself. 

You will know great health and unbearable sickness,
wealth and poverty; good luck and bad.    Feast
and famine.    May you live long enough to experience 
it all.  Live and learn...that\'s the key.

There will be moments of bare existence when everything
whirls past and you hang on for a simple breath.  Though
you want the World to stop, it will spin on ....and continue
to do so long after you are gone.  

As All are born; one day we shall die, completing the 
Circle.  Don\'t focus too much on the details.   It\'s only
Life, so enjoy it as it unfolds.  

You are part of the Mysterious Play, intertwined with
all \"actors\", awaiting the movement of the Quill to mark
down Time.