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July 2009 
How do you feel about strangers?
Posted on Aug 29th, 2008
by 
martha
martha
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 29, 2008:
Some people say that they've never met a stranger,
or that a stranger is a friend they haven't met yet.
Usually, I'm open to people I'm meeting right now.
Openness, receptiveness, joy
like tuning into their channel, their groove
are they tuning into mine?
So what about somebody who's been a friend for years?
Cousin, spouse, your own child.
Could this person be brand new?
Not like "I'll pretend I don't know that you don't like mustard on your dogs,"
but to really open up to that person?
See who they've become
in the last 27 years.
Hi, who are you?
Do you know me?
The stranger in the old friend; now what do we do?
And if I fall for you again,
Does this "love" put me to sleep,
Depending on you to be "you"
and me to be "me"?
And if I don't fall for you?
Can I keep loving who you used to be?
the way I used to, when I used to be
Who I used to be?
or that a stranger is a friend they haven't met yet.
Usually, I'm open to people I'm meeting right now.
Openness, receptiveness, joy
like tuning into their channel, their groove
are they tuning into mine?
So what about somebody who's been a friend for years?
Cousin, spouse, your own child.
Could this person be brand new?
Not like "I'll pretend I don't know that you don't like mustard on your dogs,"
but to really open up to that person?
See who they've become
in the last 27 years.
Hi, who are you?
Do you know me?
The stranger in the old friend; now what do we do?
And if I fall for you again,
Does this "love" put me to sleep,
Depending on you to be "you"
and me to be "me"?
And if I don't fall for you?
Can I keep loving who you used to be?
the way I used to, when I used to be
Who I used to be?
Eagle Eye Cherry "Falling in love again"
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Oh, I loved this one too…
“And if I fall for you again,
Does this “love” put me to sleep,
Depending on you to be “you”
and me to be “me”?”
Sweet insight and reminder to always being present, even with those who we knew yesterday, for years maybe, and plan to know for years into the future. Be present with them now, and discover them now.
Thank you!
Great blog Martha!!!
And I love we are not stranger anymore too!
Love, me
well, it depends on who you be now, when I don't compare you to any other time
“And if I don't fall for you?
Can I keep loving who you used to be?
the way I used to, when I used to be
Who I used to be”
:-)
“So what about somebody who's been a friend for years?
Cousin, spouse, your own child.
Could this person be brand new?”
I'm smiling,and thinking of mustard,Dijon and the yellow kind people put on hot dogs,and one sugar for him and two for her,and none for me.
Great questions there… and I am a work in progress with those answers. Doesn't have a clue! In time, I guess…
Hi wonderful ones, really I'm confused about this whole thing. We're never who we were yesterday, but in the end should that make a big difference? And when DOES it make a difference? I can't figure it out at all.
Thank you Lisa, Aley, Maze, B.B. and Sherri, for your thoughts. You're wiser than I by far! :)
thank you for the poem martha. I liked the notion about the stranger in an old friend.
in a way some part of ourselves is also a stranger, the part that changes with the ever changing perspective of a new day.. your thoughts made me think of this:
What is the self? If something is true, is real, is constant, is a foundation of a nature that is unchanging, this can be called the self. For the sake of sentient beings, in all the truths I have taught, there is such a self. This is for you to cultivate.
mahaparinirvana sutra