"Alarm Bells Part Deux"

If I had more skill in writing I wouldn't have to do part two. Or I suppose if the readers weren't such idiots! Just kidding. I accept complete responsibility for the apparent bewilderment caused my alarm bell analogy. To start with I should clarify that I have no new alarm bells going off in my head. I was just trying to encourage myself to pay attention to them.

When I was thinking about how I would clarify what an alarm bell meant to me I was originally going to suggest that it was like that old exhortation to "follow your heart" and that if you were doing otherwise you should try to be conscious of it before it was too late. Upon further thought I don't think that's really what I intended either. I often lead with my heart, especially when it comes to matters of family and I believe it has resulted in lots of mistakes on my part. In fact I often followed my heart despite the nagging sense of an alarm going off in the back of my head.

For me alarm bells (silent or otherwise) are those warnings that tell us to do something. Probably something different than what we're doing now. Things we are either afraid to do or are too complacent to do. Things we know are the smart thing to do but somehow manage to delay.

I would give you some examples of my own alarm bells but if I wrote them down I would not be able to keep ignoring them. And that scares the hell out of me. If I truly acknowledged the alarms I'm pretty sure I would have to do a few things differently. Maybe tomorrow....or the next day?

I hope that clarifies. If not I'm sorry, and I give you the immortal words of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. "Fuddle Duddle"

“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."---Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."--- George Bernard Shaw

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