[Mystry]

Up until this morning I was under the impression that all things being equal life would work itself out...but nothing is equal and life won't...

HEY YOU...MYSTRY...YEAH...YOU...

That voice...where have I heard that voice before...I searched my memory, such as it is...finding a little snippet that seemed to sound like that voice...I played the two together in my head...

HEY STOP THAT...DON'T YOU KNOW IT'S LOUD ENOUGH INSIDE THIS WINDY BRAIN OF YOURS ALREADY WITHOUT CREATING ECHOES...

Sorry...I uh...wait a minute if you're inside my brain how is it that I haven't heard you for such a long time?

THAT'S EASY ENOUGH TO EX...plain...guess I don't need to use caps anymore...I think I have your attention, eh...anyway I just wanted to take you for a little stroll before you go totally insane...lol...just kidding I know you are the sanest person in the world right...lol...it's everyone else that's got problems...

Yeah I'd say...

AWWWWWW...SHUTUP...just sit there and keep quiet and let me show you what life would be like if you had have been all you could be...

A picture over a huge marble fireplace rested watching the room like a sentry keeping a keen eye out for the slightest of kind of trouble...the oldness of the painting seemed to tell the years that had passed since it's installation...

the room is furnished with the finest furniture money can buy...the other paintings that adorn the walls are all renoirs and piccasos...along one entire wall is a movie size tv screen for those nights getting to the theater impossible...

leaving this room we come to the long entrance hall that ends with two huge doors all crystal and brass with inlaid oak and if we look straight ahead there is a ballroom and an indoor pool area with heated whirlpools in three corners of the room and a sauna in the other...all this is surrounding the gigantic olympic sized swimming pool...

and look there is your wife isn't she lovely...oh and what is the pool boy doing...uhhhh...lets take a journey upstairs shall we...right this way nothing to see on this level...

upstairs is accessable from the grand stair case which also has stairs that run down either sides of the main staircase...if we enter the first door at the top of the stairs we find you sitting in your office on the phone with business partners in milan and paris...

65 rooms in this house alone...your other 10 or 11 homes are smaller and less overwhelming...yes you would have made a good business man but then...well lets take a listen to the conversation you are having on the phone at this minute...

Ron...listen Ron I really don't care how many people will be out of work and left homeless...that isn't my concern...no I don't want to at least allow them to buy back the company...I am not a charity case, I didn't get to this point in my life by being sentimental did I...you have one week to move those people out of there or the law will...do I make myself clear...fred...hey fred those stores in japan and china are my best money makers so you buy off whoever in that government needs to be bought and if you phone me again with ******** like this you can find yourself another job and i don't care if you are my brother...

as you can see you would have been a very hard businessman...now lets see what else is different...ahhh the children...well lets not go there because they are all messes of their...

I want to see me...I want to know why I have become like this...

it's simple really...your childhood was different...your parents were both business people and you went to the finest schools money could buy...

The office door is partially open and we can hear someone sobbing...there at his desk is the businessman extrordinaire...no one to comfort his soul...no real friends to listen to his problems...no one to trust...

I don't want to see anymore...I don't want to be here...this is not me...that was not me...that's only one way my life could've gone, my life could've been more than what it is and alot less than what that was...but one thing is for sure...my life would have brought me to this same place no matter if I were rich or just surviving...this point here...now...in this place is where I would've come anyway so what was the point in this little journey...

To show you that life...no matter how much money or fame or power you have sooner or latter all that matters is friends...like Jesus said what is a man who gains the world but loses his soul...

this is so true lyle.thanks for posting

[SeptemberMorn]

So true! If it's okay, I'd like to {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Man of Mystery}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Do you actively write? May be worth thinking about!