{"id":2619,"date":"2011-08-10T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:31:51","slug":"be-on-the-watch-wednesday-august-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/be-on-the-watch-wednesday-august-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Be On The Watch – Wednesday August 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today I was able to THINK instead of just worry. Thinking is proactive, while worrying is just brain noise. I try and think often, but it ends up being loud, staticky anxiety. If you could record and amplify what happens in my brain when I try and imagine or plan my future, it would sound like a cat walking across a synthesizer. It would look like one of those paintings that elephants make with their trunks. <\/p>\n

Yesterday a friend sent me a link to a commercial, and the voice over was a Charles Bukowski poem. I searched for the poem, and as I read the words I got teary eyed. I work in advertising,so it pains me a little to admit that I hadn’t known this poem until I saw the Levi’s ad that featured it. That’s how life goes sometimes though, you have to be willing to find inspiration anywhere. These were the exact words I needed to read to put my thoughts in order.<\/p>\n

The Laughing Heart
\n-Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n

your life is your life
\ndon\u2019t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
\nbe on the watch.
\nthere are ways out.
\nthere is a light somewhere.
\nit may not be much light but
\nit beats the darkness.
\nbe on the watch.
\nthe gods will offer you chances.
\nknow them.
\ntake them.
\nyou can\u2019t beat death but
\nyou can beat death in life, sometimes.
\nand the more often you learn to do it,
\nthe more light there will be.
\nyour life is your life.
\nknow it while you have it.
\nyou are marvelous
\nthe gods wait to delight
\nin you.<\/p>\n

Be on the watch. That phrase is like a kick to my heart. I can’t keep looking away from the opportunities that I’m given. I want to have the kind of life that I can tell my children I chose, I pursued, I worked and arranged. And I was able to weather the hard parts because I wanted what I was living. So I’m starting now, and I’m going to become the person I knew I could be in the third grade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I was able to THINK instead of just worry. Thinking is proactive, while worrying is just brain noise. I try and think often, but it ends up being loud, staticky anxiety. If you could record and amplify what happens in my brain when I try and imagine or plan my future, it would sound … Continue reading “Be On The Watch – Wednesday August 10th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}