As a child, I could'nt wait to grow up and get out of school Just to evade studying, that appeared rather cruel How foolish was I! I did'nt realize the learning that just happened by... Much of learning happens passively When we're just living life simultaneously Our senses cue in to situations and experiences They adapt very well even to subtle variances But, quite frankly, even conscious learning must never cease The brain is not a timeless showpiece There is always something more to learn If only you have the inclination and yearn Age is just a number; you actually get old when you stop learning An exhausted thirty year old or a young seventy year old looking forward to every morning Learning never exhausts the mind With life and goals, it gets you aligned Sometimes, life will keep repeating lessons until you thoroughly comprehend the module The roots of learning can be bitter, but the fruits swell with ripeness and are sweet The thing about experiential and consequential learning is that Learning thus occurred lasts in the head like some format Therefore, irrespective of what happens in life If you're positive and adapatble, goodness can blossom even from strife Difficult situations and horrible experiences may push you to the edge of a cliff You can either jump and end the misery or spring out wings and attempt your body weight to lift Honestly, you MAY never really learn to fly But if you jump off hopelessly, you are sure to die Every sitution is a learning opportunity If you extract the useless things and use them properly I relish accumulating rich experiences Researching about things that are within my scope of preferences Today, I am naturally attracted to things that are mentally stimulating I like being in the company of like-minded people that are motivating Learning, love, peace, and inner joy To me, these are precious, not random toys When I feel I've really absorbed something, and my mind's on fire That is so fulfilling, my deepest desire When we're too arrogant to accept a better suggestion And when we just accept defeat and stop asking questions When we become complacent, we begin to stagnate And if we wait a bit too long at that gate The present glory will fade away to a point You'll have only shenanigans, but the present will disappoint So, focus on being productive, not busy That is the way to carve your name in tomorrow's history Invest in knowledge; that gives the maximum percentile interest Even when you're struggling, and life seems like a test Make every experience, good or bad, count That is more valuable than money in an account A foolish person can gradually or immediely empty all his coffers A wise person may lose it all several times, and still refill with better offers I sincerely enjoy listening to intelligent people speak I'm not referring to only the nerds and geeks There are varied forms of intelligence and I admire them all Whatever interests and inspires me, I'm happy to sit in that rainfall Listening to an IT professional about technology An illiterate street vendor about observation and customer profiling philosophy A housewife about maintaining and balancing a home charmingly About attracting peace at home, these will get my ears all perky I simply enjoy listening to a witty eloquent speaker I'd be enchanted if a CA or banker speaks numbers But, please stick to your specific area of expertise If you are clueless about makeup, refrain from advising, please Live peacefully, siphoning joy from every bit ...as if you are to die tomorrow But, don't stop accumulating experiences; learn as if you are going to live forever Don't mind burning If at the end of the tunnel shines the light of learning
- RUELHA www.ruelha.com © Copyright Protected. All Rights Reserved
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Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA 
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Just Like Magic And Dreams Coming True Sunday
Dancing All Day Through The Evening At the Mall
And Bookstore Wishing Another Poetic Masterpiece
Would Come From Rue
And Then Almost at Midnight
i Noticed i Missed It in the E-Mail
Notifications So Tired From All Day
Dance i Already Made A Couple of Typos
in the Last Poetic Response i Made on the
“Wrong Planet” Singing “Thousands of Dollars”
Instead of “Thousands of Folks” hehe i Wanted
So Much to Reply After Reading Your Poem
Yet i Just Couldn’t Do it Justice So Drowsy
Last Night So i Slept on All You Sang and
Just Like the Energizer Bunny i’m All
Wound Up Again With A Good Night
Sleep of the Strangest Alice/Fred/Katy
Perry in Wonderland Dreams As HeaR
i Am Again At the Top and
Bottom of Dear Rue’s
Poem to Reply Now
Oh i Loved it Dear Rue
So Much Wisdom You Continue
to Accrue these Last Two Covid-19
Years i Have Replied to Each And Every one
of Your Precious Creative Poetic Inspirations So True
What A Blessing the Pandemic Years Have Been For Poetry
As Darkness Does Bring So Much LiGHT As We Are Built to
Overcome Struggles in Life Like The Rest of Nature So True too
For Like Katy Perry Sings in Her ‘Firework’ Song The Theme Song
of This Now too After A Hurricane A Rainbow Will Come And All the Doors
That Were Closed Before May Bring A More Perfect Door to Open Next to
Evolve in Mind And Body Soul As of Course i Add to Her Dance And Song Now
too mY FRiEnD And Yes it is So True So Many Exhausted 30 or Even 21 Year-Old
Or Even 48 Or Even 70 Year-Old Folks Still Working While Being ReTired Now Since
47 For Active Pay For Work My Barren Wheels From those Years Before Are Now A
Sponge of New Rubber to Soak Up All the Arts And Sciences Folks Have to Offer
Globally Now Through All Sources that come my Way for True After College All
We Had Were Distant Libraries and Card Catalogs then And if We Wanted to
Listen to Music We Had to Buy it or Wait for it to come on The Radio oh no…
Just Withering Away on the Vine i Did For Decades Then Until Computers
Came Along And Opened A World Wide Library of All Arts And Sciences
For me to Soak Up Free Particularly After ReTiring With All that Fresh
Rubber Never Ending to Soak Up And Express Even More Fire Works
to Play Inspiration Coming From Within, Inside, Outside, Above,
So Below And All Around And Just to Think, Feel, And Sense Dear
FRiEnD You So Young in Your New Millennial Ways Still For All Your
Creativity Still To Come Evolving into A Brand New Creation
of God Every Inhale of Peace Exhale of Love The Phrase
That Dear Rue Brought to me Probably one of my
Favorite Ones of All in this Life Now What
A Soul Gift Dear Rue is i Hope When You
Reach The Seasoned Age of 61 Like me
Particularly As My Garden of Creativity
Didn’t Even Come Until Age 53 That You Feel
With 100 Percent Confidence Faith And BeLieF
BeLeaf BeLove Your Living Tree Forest Whole
Soul That You Would/Will Never Travel to Any age
Yet Eternally Now For Soul You Continue to Evolve
As Stars Rebirth Again in Every Inhale of Peace
Exhale of
Love You
Take You
Give You Share
You Care You Heal Dear FRiEnD
Happy Late Sunday And New Monday Always to You With SMiLes
i Missed You Dear Rue Yet i Don’t Have to Look Far to Still See
You in mY SonG of SoUL
Just Inhaling
Peace
Exhaling
Love A Song of
Soul That CaMe CoMes
ALong Now After A Hurricane
Cat-6 And Rainbow Dear FRiEnD…
And Oh Yeah The Significance of Katy
Perry And i Guess That Strange Dream i Had
Last Night of Following Her Through Tunnels Underground, Yes,
In 2010, Before i Started Writing Anything At All in the Deepest
Parts of Pain And Numb Contemplating Suicide Then From What
Normally Happens When one struggles With the Suicide Disease, Type Two
Trigeminal Neuralgia, the Worst Pain Known to Humankind, Along with A Synergy
of 18 Other Life Threatening Disorders from Wake to Sleep, No Drug Would Touch
to Heal With Ear Plugs in As Crickets Sounded Like Freight Trains Crashing in on
me And Street Lights at 3 AM Were as Bright As Looking Directly At the Sun in Pain
Even Through Shades That Offered no Real Relief Just More Pain and Numb Pain and Numb
Someone Had the Radio on then And i Could Vaguely Hear Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ Song
it Was the Only Art That Barely Touched my Soul For Years then it Was the Only Taste
of Hope i Could Feel in that Year then it was A Gift And Why it is so Important We
Tale the DarKnesses
And LiGHTS Of LiFE
in Stories With No Restraint
Wherever We Go For It’s True
The Smallest of Words Like Hope
May Literally Save A Life my FRiEnD
Indeed this is my Agenda Everywhere i Breathe…
And Honestly i really don’t care if someone Believes i am A
Fool For Love
Cause i
Am i
Will
And
i
Do i Am
A Fool For Love (God)…
And i Will Never Ever
Feel Like A “‘Scape Goat” Again..:)
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“iNHaLinG Peace ExhalinG LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT”
A Contemplating Meditating Autotelic Flow of Life Creating
Hehe For A More Complicated Way to Dance And Sing It HAha…
As i Continue to ArriVE iN This Place EternAlly Now Love SPRinGS
Never Ending NoW in
Creativity New
And i am Only
Coming Here on
Valentine’s Day Dear
Rue to Thank You For All
The Creativity You Have Sprung
From my Soul in These 2 Covid-19
Years Where So Many Folks Turned
Within To Find More of Their Soul Breath Alive Creating Many Arts
THere is No Greater Gift THere iS No Greater For Giving Thanks Giving
Than One Who Inspires New Soul Breaths of Dance And Song From Within
So Happy Valentine’s
Day For Real Always
To All You LoVE iN
THiS LiFE Dear FRiEnD…
i Miss You Dear FRiEnD Yet
True You Still Breathe in my Words
Not Much Different Than my Mother
Who Went to Her Death Bed on This Day
of February 14, 2017 And That’s the Lesson
Her Last Breath Taught me the 8 Days She Went
Without Food And Drink Until What Will Be The Anniversary
Of Her Last Breath That Still Breathes in All Art i Create of Life Now
This Year
2.22.2022
5 Years ago
Her Breath
Still Resonates
Like Yours in
Words From
Deep Within mY FRiEnD YouR Gift..:)
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Many of us as kids are always in a hurry to grown up
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Happy Easter Week Dear Rue
Still Hoping to See Your Poetry
Come Back to Life Here New One Day
me and Katrina Talking About You This Morning
She Asking me Where is Your Dancing FRiEnD Rue Lately
And i Just Sang
No Matter What i Hope
She is Doing Okay i Just Hope
She is Okay i Just Hope She is Okay
If i may Be So Humble to Sing Love You Dear FRiEnD..:)
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Freddiebuoy, wishing you and Katie a very happy Easter. You guys are the cutest and sweetest. It’s been a while. Maybe we can communicate via email instead, what say?
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SMiLes Dear Rue of Course We Can And Will Connect By
Email… i’ll Send You This Message in Your Contact Box
Where You Should Gain my Email Address and i Will
Acquire Yours too when You
Email me Back… Wonderful! This
Way if You Ever Go Missing Again
i Will Be Able to Check Next Time
And See to Make Sure You Are Doing Okay!…
And Yes Hehe, You Surely Now Look Like
You Are Doing The Best Ever in Your Life!
Again that
Makes me
So Very Happy
With Easter SMiLes!..:)
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Looking forward to connecting soon Fred 🙂
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☺️🏝🙌🙏
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Little sister how are you?
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Brother Matt, Happy Easter to you!
Heard such an amazing sermon today at the Easter vigil service. Hope all is well at your end…. Take care. Love and hugs… xoxo
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Happy Easter little sister. Miss your posts. Love ❤️ you
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I strongly disliked school!
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Me toooo 😉
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