Another week of the Loose Blogging consortium our members include Anu, Ashok, Conrad, Gaelikaa, Ginger Haag, Grannymar Helen, Judy, Magpie 11, Maria, & Ramana.  For various reasons there may be a couple of absentees this week.

Our topic was chosen by Ginger

Quest

From the moment I discovered our topic for today a song has been running through my head.

In this song composed by Mitch Leigh, the lyrics are by Joe Darion for Man of La Mancha, Quixote explains his quest and the reasons behind it

To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … pure and chaste from afar …
To try … when your arms are too weary …
To reach … the unreachable star …

This is my quest, to follow that star …
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far …
To fight for the right, without question or pause …
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause …

And I know if I’ll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I’m laid to my rest …
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach … the unreachable star …

Well, I am not a man, or scorned and covered with scars, but that should not prevent me from having courage to reach for an unreachable star.  Now which star would it be……

I was never one to chase rainbows( although a rainbow chased us one day) or travel the world in search of treasure like Santiago, a young shepherd in Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist.  First written in Portuguese and translated to into 67 languages, I never actually saw why it was thought to be such a wonderful book.  Why wander the world for what is right there on your own doorstep?  I had spent my early life listening to the phrase ‘The grass is greener far away’!

It is not you know, hop over the stile and if you look at the grass with open seeing eyes…. it will be the same.  The colour comes from within your heart.  I am happy for my heart to lie peaceful and calm as I enjoy the important things in life – my family and friends!