Exploring Happiness #52- New Shoes Poem by June Stepansky

Exploring Happiness #52- New Shoes



I hate to buy
new shoes!

Old shoes are
comfortable friends
on whom one
can always depend.

While new shoes,
like new situations,
are built on that
ephemeral commodity
called hope.

We have all had times in our lives when everything is going well and we feel so comfortable that we don’t want anything to ever change, but eventually just as old comfortable shoes don’t last forever, we must inevitably move on to something different, and make the adjustment to whatever new challenges we might encounter.
There is no way we can stop this cycle from old to new. The best we can hope for is to trust that with time and effort and courage we will eventually be able to cope and adjust to the new demands required of us.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Man must prepare for every event of life,
for there is nothing that is durable.
Menander of Athens

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Khairul Ahsan 06 August 2013

Adapting to life's changing circumstances has been nicely related to old and new shoes. Hope is the bridge between the two. Nice metaphor!

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