What traps you

Richard J Edwards 1960 (Ft Belvoir)



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What traps you

We live daily in our formated routine of life that we think we've figured out. Even when we've established everything that we allow R selves to be faced with we do experience a level of complacency from purposeful habits so we can feel like masters of our domain. Then we wake up one morning and we can sense that something has changed. We've either lost our job or our car has been stolen or we lost someone that we loved and any of those do have different levels of hardship that shakes our confidence in what we thought we had a handle on. Now the comfortable pattern we've grown used to by our own making is out of place and leaves us scrambled. This takes us a while to put the pieces of our brain like a desshivled puzzle back together and like one piece missing we don't know the way back to what we had before the bad news. U can think that U'll get back to the way it was however with that one piece missing forever U cannot so after awhile U have to develop a new norm in your routine because as creatures of habit we go with what we know and complacency of some level will always be somewhat of a norm.
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Written on April 06, 2024

Submitted by rjenavy on April 06, 2024

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Richard J Edwards

Retired Navy. Live in Montana. And Love God. In 2004 I wrote and had published by poetry. Com The Truth Of Heart and Soul put in their book "Involving the Muse". This is not my best work. I have 40yrs of writings I know R publish worthy I'm just looking for some to help that knows how to do that. I'm a common man and I believe my writings R easily relatable. more…

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  • alanswansea18
    Good job.
    LikeReply23 days ago
  • rjenavy
    My writings are primarily the result of my life take on and experiences. I recently had to bury two of my friends one my age and another younger than myself. I have a close relationship with God and know that when we pass the desire is we all end up back with him however it still hurts when you lose someone. 
    LikeReply23 days ago
  • EdwinRayTanguma
    2B or not 2B…Of wort and wert…I have no clue of what I speak…Interesting read…
    LikeReply23 days ago

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