16 responses to “Exploring priorities”

1. So true…we might think that the journey there is the struggle, but the ability to return is critical.

2. Oh dear, yes, always have an exit! 🙂

   • PS I remember a mountain climber telling me that getting down again is much harder than getting up.

3. Watch out for those mosquitos, too, yikes.

4. What a terrifying opening:
   “The explorer cutting
   paths through thigh-cuts”

   Then I see “swearing at Mosk-itoes” … In other words, the speaker is swearing at God and all those in religious authority. Perhaps he wants answers or different outcomes.

   “ambition” = “am-bit-ion” … Bitten by the mosquitoes? But what do they represent? Could be any number of things sucking his life/energy/will/purpose away.

   “wearing his ambition
   tight” … What an interesting section. The meaning, but also the line break and hanging one-word line. Somehow, “tight” is the centerpiece, the point of greatest meaning. First of all, it sounds like “tied.” Maybe it’s just a really tight suit. Trendy. Fancy. Now I’m imagining him as a businessman who has thrown himself into his work for so many years that perhaps he’s all but lost his family. I hope it isn’t really too late for him. Sometimes it takes getting bitten, or eaten, to make someone realize the importance and value of what he already has. Jobs, like mosquitoes, can really suck the life-blood out of people.

5. The good thing about exploring is to continually strive to go forward and not to re-track back. Only then value added elements take shape. Rightly so Bjorn!

   Hank

6. Very true! We always have to make sure there is a way back out!

7. A short poem that goes for the jugular!

8. Tight clothes (ambition) and mosquitoes means lots of bites.
   Best mark the way he came or he won’t be back in time, if ever, for antivirus meds.
   It was a fun poem, Bjorn.
   ..

9. Ha. Can well understand this. Very clever Bjorn. K.

10. Being to ambitious can leave you lost in a jungle…lol nice write Björn.

11. Yes, ambition can wander until it is lost…a powerful reminder

12. Love how this caught me -and the explorer – by surprise!

13. Like many of live’s truisms – cleverly expressed – this piece brought a smile.

14. awesome read.
    makes me long for my ‘way back’ when the world was more simpler.
    society scares me these days.

15. Persevere! Persevere! Forward..Forward…Forward!!!! This one made me chuckle! Enjoyed!

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