DISCONTENTMENT

It was spring but it was summer I wanted; the warm days and the great outdoors.

It was summer but it was fall I wanted; the colorful leaves and the cool dry air.

It was fall but it was winter I wanted; the beautiful snow and the joy of the holiday season.

It was now winter but it was spring I wanted; the warmth and the blossoming of nature.

I was a child but it was adulthood I wanted; the freedom and the respect.

I was twenty but it was thirty I wanted; to be mature and sophisticated.

I was middle-aged but it was twenty I wanted; the youth and the free spirit.

I was retired but it was middle-age I wanted; the presence of mind without limitations.

My life was over but I never got what I wanted.

~ an unnamed fourteen year old boy, quoted by Linda Dillow in Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment, originally from Dr. Charles R. Swindoll's teaching entitled Who Gets the Glory?

Note: I titled this blog post "Discontentment", but the poem/quote itself did not have a title.

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