Having a Hard Time

~ Gottfried

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. Don’t limit yourself. If you keep digging, the hole might get big enough to bury you and yours. You can’t be both awesome and negative, choose one. Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Don’t lead, I’ll wander off bored. Don’t follow, I’ll get lost. Walk beside me and help me cause trouble. Oh, you think mischief is your ally. You merely adopted the mischief; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t do good until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but weakness!

Every time you find humor in a difficult situation, you win. Staying positive doesn’t mean that you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on hard days you know that there are better ones coming, or worse ones. Whichever is the case, you brace yourself for impact.

May your hard times last only as long as a Kardashian marriage. Difficulty does not leave you until you learn from it. This probably explains why you’ve been poor all your life. You simply haven’t learned anything about poverty. Or worse still, you’re in denial about it all. Ten years isn’t a phase. It’s your life now.

There are three types of people in your life you should never forget. People who helped you in your difficult times. People who left you in your difficult times and people who put you in difficult times. There will also be people that tick all those boxes. Keep them close.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm. Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. Sometimes I just want someone to hug me and say, “I know it’s hard. You’re going to be okay. Here’s some chocolate and six million dollars”. Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

There is no sunrise so beautiful that is worth waking me up to see it. The pill to go through hard times is sleep. It takes hard work and dedication to find time for an afternoon nap. As you go through the worst, stay quiet. It’s a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re poor.

Have you tried stealing?

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

108 thoughts on “Having a Hard Time”

  3. In my Teens The ‘Six Million Dollar
    Man’ Was A Real Sale Item on TV

    Now It Costs Billions of Dollars to Even

    Make ‘An Avatar’

    True it Was A Cheap
    Ride to the Moon in ’69

    Just Two Years After the
    Beatles Made An Album

    Cover for Another ‘A Day in The Life’
    A Burial Ground Waiting to Bring A Stone

    Statue Back to Life
    With An Indian
    Goddess Leading
    In Front The Whole
    “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely HEaRTS
    Club Band” As It’s True How Many

    Souls We Stand UPoN All THeir FlesH and
    Blood And Bones BRinGinG Who We aRe True God Yes

    It’s True It’s Hard to Be A Stone Statue Bust in A Burial

    Ground Yet’s It’s True It’s Even Harder And Effortless in Ease

    Once the Stone
    Rolls Away

    And All of Life
    Becomes An
    Epiphany

    Of the
    Living Dead
    Just RiSinG AGAiN
    Mr. Gottfried With SMiLES ALiVE

    Key To Success Become A Feather Weight
    Indeed As Finger Tips Become All Our
    Weight in Dance And Song of Life Free

    Secret REVeaLinG NeWLY NoW Naked Enough
    Whole Complete iN JoY oF PLaY iN LiFE Free Yes

    WHere Hard Transforms into Effortless Ease Feather Is Breeze..:)

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              1. True Mr Gottfried Yes
                If We aRe At The Perfect
                Peak Of The Mountain

                We aRe Actually
                On The Way Down

                As THere
                Is No WHeRE
                To Go UpDowN

                iNDeeD is Up Part
                Of Heaven FaLLSPRinGS

                Each Day i Build A New
                Mountain From The Peak
                To Climb The Only Other
                Choice To Fall Bellow

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                i Came Up With
                The Last Lines
                On The Porcelain Throne

                iNDeeD Roses Rise
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                Or Droughts With

                Deeper
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                Roots iN HeLL iS HeAVeN

                Fun House of Pain Is Pleasure

                Life oF A STory Is Republicans

                Choosing THEiR Leader
                From A Divided House

                Note: i Only
                Watch The
                CiRCuS From

                Eden Each Morning
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                OatMeal Flavored

                Popcorn
                So i Continue
                To ‘Go’ To The ‘SHoW’

                Building A New
                Mountain Below

                Yes
                DowNToP👇🔝

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                  1. It’s The Way Of
                    PoLiTiCS iN Religion
                    Of Politics Mr Gottfried

                    Minions Will Volunteer
                    Quickly To Follow Most

                    Despicable Leaders
                    To Hell As Long

                    As ‘They’
                    Promise

                    ‘Them’ A Rose
                    From A Garden

                    On The Way
                    Yes Down To
                    HeLL ON EartH

                    Even i Usually Add
                    A Preferable Ingredient
                    From my Recipe to The

                    Top However Yes
                    Popcorn iS Only 🍿
                    Metaphor As At

                    my Advancing
                    Age The Kernels

                    More Likely
                    Break my
                    Teeth
                    JeSuS
                    F iN Christ
                    No Disrespect
                    iNTeNDinG HEHe

                    i Already WEaR

                    Enough
                    Crowns

                    From
                    Broken
                    Teeth HAha 🦈

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          2. Building Mountains Yes
            From Top Down Writing
            Poetic Verse iN ReVerse
            By SiGHT Of 100% Faith

            ALLONE

            WordS Only Building
            BLoCKS oF Old
            Worlds Or New NoW

            Yes Life IS A Long Parable
            iN Heaven New
            Now Or Not

            LaYeRS UPoN
            Layers oF Art
            iN SmART
            Building Mountains
            Mr Gottfried With SMiLes..:)

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                  1. Of Course
                    i Don’t Say
                    Or Walk
                    Hehe i
                    Dance
                    And Sing
                    Free For Those
                    With Far Beyond
                    Literal Eyes And
                    Ears To

                    See And
                    Hear Hehe
                    Mr Gottfried
                    It’s A Rather
                    Progressive

                    Tradition
                    Of BaNTeRinG

                    With Cheshire
                    Cat SMiles
                    Remaining

                    For
                    Real
                    As Soul
                    Becomes Words
                    Far Beyond Just

                    Flesh
                    And Blood 🩸

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          3. Not Unlike Cameron’s
            ‘TiTANiC’ Hehe ‘Way
            Of Water’

            Avatar

            iNDeeD
            The Bliss GoeS on
            For Real With SMiLes Mr. Gottfried
            Just Another Wave Water Ocean Whole

            Living
            Tree
            Forest
            Leaf
            Brown
            Green

            To
            Stay
            On Top
            As the
            Bottom
            Becomes
            The Top

            Again
            With SMiLes..:)

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              1. Beyond “Things”
                Of ‘Religion’ Yes
                Nature Of God
                With SMiLes

                Mr Gottfried

                For
                Real

                Even Better
                Than Foot
                Ball American Style

                Yes
                ‘Na’vi’
                For Real
                The Living Earth

                No Different Yet
                Different From
                Stars

                And Me
                WHere THere
                Is No Us Or Them

                -Terminator 2

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                  1. iNDeeD Key Mr Gottfried
                    Robots Don’t Have Feelings MeSSaGE Mr Cameron BRinGS
                    iN All Three Movies
                    And Series Thereof

                    iN Terminator Titanic
                    Avatar Ways Don’t

                    Be

                    Come

                    A Big Thing
                    With No Feelings

                    Toss The Big Blue
                    Diamond 💎 Someone
                    Tried To Buy Your Soul

                    With
                    To The
                    Bottom
                    Of The
                    DarK

                    Ocean
                    Below God
                    Yes Rise Again
                    TRuE BeCoMe
                    THE Essence of
                    LoVE iN Peace

                    Peace In Love

                    Real To Be i Am
                    To Do For All With
                    Most Respect Least
                    Harm SMiles Mr Gottfried

                    Machines Are Notorious
                    For Not Understanding

                    Metaphors
                    And For Calling
                    Naked Humans
                    Dancing Together
                    Becoming Godly

                    Ascending
                    Transcending

                    iN Heavenly

                    Holy Sacred

                    FLoWinG

                    Bliss Bless
                    iN LoVE iN
                    Peace

                    Savages

                    Like The Little
                    Half Na’vi Human
                    Girl With Epilepsy
                    Said in New Avatar
                    Way Of The Water
                    iF Folks KNeW She
                    Could Hear

                    Mother
                    God Speak
                    In Her Planet’s

                    HeART Beats
                    The Real
                    Machine
                    People
                    Without
                    Souls Without
                    HeART Beats
                    Of SPiRiT ALL
                    Would Crucify

                    Her

                    Again
                    Moral
                    oF A STory
                    STiLL Be
                    More Than
                    The Tools We
                    Use YeS Even
                    Words Of Song

                    Dance
                    Naked
                    Enough
                    Whole Complete
                    iN Play Be F iN Human

                    -Free

                    Like The Peoples
                    Of Nigeria Both
                    Yours And Mine
                    Before They Were
                    Colonized With

                    Clothes
                    Tools To
                    Come To
                    Be Machines
                    Without
                    Dance
                    And Song
                    Free From Soul

                    ToGeTHeR ReaL Needing
                    Each Other Verily Human 🎼

                    SMiles Mr
                    Gottfried
                    Mr Cameron
                    Is An Atheist

                    Never
                    The Less
                    Just Another
                    GreaTesT Prophet

                    Of The God With HeART Beats

                    Doing Whatever The F iT

                    Takes
                    To Free

                    This

                    Nature
                    Family Real
                    iN Loving Peace Play🐾

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