T H I N K   F I R S T !!!

Before you Venture into any "Meaningful" Relationship with Another Soul... Remember these Hard Learned Lessons of Life... Lest you will have to Learn them the Hard Way or Relearn them again. Don't say you haven't been Warned!

1.  A Woman is a Woman is a Woman & A Man is a Man is a Man.

2.  Loneliness or Aloneness is better than Slavery or Dependence.

3.  Don't put Your Marbles in Someone else's Basket. They won't give them back... and probably won't even appreciate the Gesture.

4.  Love does not Conquer All. If Their Fears are greater than Your Love... then You are wasting Your Time and only hurting Your Self and the Person you are trying to Help. Ultimately, we can only save Ourselves.

5.  A Pragmatist is not an Idealist... and probably never will be.

6.  Seek out and direct Your Life Time and Energies to Ideals and to Idealists. Seek the Company of Real Lovers and True Friends.

7.  Predators will Consume you... one way or another... if you let them.

8.  You don't "owe" Anyone anything. Take care of Your Self First.

9.  Take care of Those who Responsibly take care of You.

10.  Don't look back or ever Regret the things that you Sincerely had to do.

11.  People who choose to not be Loyal to You... have made the Choice on Their Own. Let them go. You Don't Need Them.

12.  Be deserving of "Loyalty" from Others... Else, They Don't Need You.

13.  Never be Intimate on any Level and in any Way with Someone whose Energy does not Complement or Add to Your Own. Nothing is Gained.

14.  If it doesn't feel Right... Then don't do it.

15.  If it does feel Right and it's not some form of Escape... Then do it.

16.  Relax... And don't let Others make you Tense, Angry or Hurt.

17.  Don't let Others Control Your Mind or Feelings. Express Your Self.

18.  Be Responsible for Your Life... and Expect the same from Others.

19.  Give and Expect only "True" Friendship. Anything less is not Love.

20.  Believe in Your Self... Love Your Self... Be Good to Your Self... Be!

21.  Read these Lessons often... or at least before you are about to do something Really Potentially Foolish... Like Getting Married or Something!

                   by  Lonnie Jay

YOU

Sing a New Song
Not an Old Song
Walk a New Path
Not an Old One
Shed Your Chains
It's been too Long
The Time for Freedom
Is Overdue...

Take Your Stand
Sing Out Strong
Show the World
Your Mind's Your Own
Let Them Know
Just Where You Belong
Let Them See
It's Really...YOU

                    by  Lonnie Jay

I AM

I Am Not a Product
I Am a Unique Individual
With Feelings and Ideas of My Own
I Am Significant In and Of Myself

I Am Not a Product
A Result of Someone Else's Efforts
I May be Influenced by Others
But Never Determined

If You Wish to be Recognized
You Must Recognize Me
If You Wish to be Respected
You Must Respect Me

I Am
And You Will Know That
Or You Will Never Know Me At All

                    by  Lonnie Jay

The Journey

The Journey is only
As Rough as the Road Taken

But the Road Taken is only
As important as the Journey's End

And the Journey's End is only
As Meaningful as You make it

It All Begins and Ends
With You
 

                    by  Lonnie Jay

To Be Known

We Reach so that We man be Touched
We Speak so that We may be Heard

hat Fool would seek to touch Emptiness
Or call to the Silent Ear

Turn Around
Turn Around

You cannot Hear unless You Listen
You cannot See unless You Look

And Those who can Touch You
And Those who can See and Feel You
May be Those You will never Know

                    by  Lonnie Jay

Paradox

Man Nourished that which Decays Him
He Believes in that which Binds Him
And He Abuses that which can Free Him

He Lives in Agony with the Truth
Or Exists Contentedly with His Blindness

He is a Paradox
With only the Will to Be
As an Axle of Existence

                    by  Lonnie Jay