THE BRASS RING!

The Brass Ring!

Have you ever heard of the Brass Ring? Long time ago on the Merry-Go-Round they had set-up on a par a semi brass ring and the object was as the merry go round came around you were suppose to grab the ring. If you got it, well you would win either money or life time rides on the Merry-Go-Round.

            But what people didn’t know was the ring was place strategy just far enough away so it was unreachable. So no matter how hard you tried to reach out and grab it, it was impossible to grab. This was a marketing tool used to get you to buy more rides.

            Now the price of a ticket to ride as only ten cents but that ten cents would turn into a dollar and than two dollars before they would give up. Think about it, ten cents or one dollar was a lot of money back in the thirties and forties. Why, the premium for a life insurance police was ten cents a month for a life insurance policy.

            A fellow wanting to impress a girl would spend his whole weeks pay check just for one more try. Most of the time He would fail and get off the ride, broke, disappointed, and angry that he had failed.

            How many times in life do we try to grab that brass ring? Buying a lottery ticket every week for that one chance it will be the winner! The numbers come up and no, it wasn’t the right one. The next week, next month, the next year, maybe it’ll be the right one. But for most it never comes.

Well, don’t be discouraged, one day that ticket might just win. Maybe you’ll be the one to grab that brass ring. When, the time is right, and the planets line up in the right order it just might be possible. As I tell my children, never give up, try, try, and try again.

“May God Bless!”

 

Disappointment!

How many times have you been disappointed in your life? One, two, three times? I mean really disappointed. Me I’ve been disappointed more times than I have fingers and toes. Life has a way of letting us down or is it because of something we’ve done?

            When you find out the news you were expected was the opposite of what you were looking for do you cry? Do you become angry? Or do you just crawl into a hole and slowly show in your body language you are not happy.

            I tell my children that old saying, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. This is little comfort to them and to me. When your child is upset it tends to make us upset also for we can’t make it better. Who makes us feel better when we’re upset? Nobody! Somehow we get over it and move on with our lives. It takes a lot to cover up our disappointment, but we do move on.

            As adults we’re expected to be strong, courageous and hold our heads up high. Most of us can, but it isn’t easy. We have to become super humans at times. It can be very taxing on our physical being and to our emotional stability. Somehow,  we do manage to pull through. If not we seek emotional help from a professional.

            Well, I’ve made a lot of lemonade and without sugar it really is sour!

MAY GOD BLESS!