I reflect upon good and bad and properly use these impressions,
Command my will,
Some say, I have consciousness.
Understand and know, I am conscious.
Shame not consciousness or do it harm,
Here is my strength: I can get what I want and avoid what I don’t want, use the proper impulse, a careful purpose, use a studied assent.
This is my job: to practice living ‘the good life’.
The truth is a mean mistress.
She fights you for love and hate.
She may value what you may not,
Or laugh when people cry,
She calls everyone a liar,
Why does she tell the truth?
Her philosophy is partial to virtue,
Her voice depends on my good work.
Her stunning nature reveals all to anyone with no reservation.
My mind blisters looking into her face.
Her power overwhelms the human race.
She answers all her calls
And always stands her ground,
I dare to love her ways.
I blame myself when she is misunderstood,
I can’t help acting like a knave in her presence.
She is demanding, selfish and pure! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth?wprov=sfti1
I sicken myself with a barrier of sweetness and niceness.
My grief is barrier by my foolishness of sentimentality.
But am I ready to know my pain and suffering?
This work is dark and full of bad habits that numb all feeling.
Being a lifelong learner is easer when I write
It is as functional as my practice.
I write to gain more perspectives and to make directions ,notes and to do things more manually.
I appreciate people who write and do screen play,as artists, but everyone needs to write as a learning tool.
See what I did there,
I am trying to use the same formate as “Drawing”.
Ideally, we need many tools to build a good mind and stay a lifelong learner.
So let’s think outside the box.
The reasons I write and draw is to become a critical thinker, integrate theory with practice and explore to discover.
Art may imitate life, but writing and drawing builds a better mind that does both.
The association is strong with people and culture.
To understand humanity is to understand and accept religion within each of our limitations.
Not all people believe the supernatural aspects of a belief, but many love the ceremony, community and art embodied in all religious ways.
It’s true that there are difficulties in accepting the whole package.
Atheists are borne out of a strong desire to live without supernatural belief.
Many people have a good sense of skepticism in their day to day lives.
There is a lot more we have in common than we are different.
Science and philosophy attempt to fill the gap.
But we all look for answers.
And platitudes are mostly empty answers or partial at best.
So, the struggle to live and thrive is still a good goal.
I hope you continue to discover meaning and purpose for your entire life.
As Kipling once wrote, don’t make dreams your master, or thoughts your aim.
To act in accord with dream and thought is an art.
The proper action for the proper thought or dream requires a saints heart and an engineers mind.
It is practical to have a set of rules that allow us to uncover the secrets in life and explore the unknown.
We need to read far and wide and understand to envision the progress the future will hold.
Can you treat your body properly so it will function and stay healthy?
Can you process and build on earth to help it function and stay healthy?
These mysteries require discovery, recovery and more.
Go explore.
Love to show people how much they mean to me…
I love my apartment and I love this little shelter. I found at the bottom of the stairs: it was made by a homeless man.
He took a bench from the apartment and carried it down the concrete stairs to set up in his new hide-a-way. He had other accessories: candle, flint-lighter, blanket, ashtray, cup and saucer, and other clothing and food. He managed to stay a day or two until he was kicked out…
I am grateful he had a day or two…
I am grateful for my faculties Of thought, feelings, and beliefs…
I love my action, body and mind…
I love doing no harm to others…
I am grateful for my mistakes…
I am grateful for my recovery and relapse…
I am 100% grateful, at the moment, it is the most important part of me,like a touch stone…
I know I cannot be this way all the time…
I know I will continue to succeed and fail in many ways till my end of days…
But I wouldn’t give up this moment…
For me it is a lifesaver…
Just Another Moment Of Positive Psychology…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_wave_positive_psychology?wprov=sfti1
Don’t dwell on the past, present or future.
Be ready to use whatever works for you.
Volunteer to change your attitude when it serves you better.
Can you learn to be happy?
There is no answer or need for an answer.
But a description will guide the way to a better you.
Happiness is about being true to yourself, so you can be true to others.
It occurs when you become aware of yourself in a playful, less critical way and in the presence of others.
Just setting your mind to become happy is a good indicator that you will attain it in a self-correcting way.
Happiness is not forced or coerced or thought into existence.
It is experienced through positive emotion and training the mind to adapt to change when being yourself and adopting ways to allow socialization with people who can be family and friends in your day to day existence.
To prevent aloneness or isolation, learn to walk away from yourself and visit others.
Even a walk to the store, a good exercise is to go out and engage with the activity and people in your local community.
Discover the people, activities, and destination within your work, family and friends.
Educate yourself in these simple ways and put them into practice to build on your present level of happiness and grow society into a better place to live through being ‘yourself’
This is a natural way we already exist.
Just ask a happy person the next time you feel happy or talk to someone who is happy.
It says there is a limit to people, places and things.
This is important when trying to assess the use or how to treat oneself or others.
The proper use of impressions is like having a moral compass with problems we are faced with in our day to day lives.
Sometimes it is best to follow the rules or tried and true methods worked out by previous generations.
The past has paid dearly for all the answers, wealth and experience past down from our people, countries and more…
Presently, we are learning much and receiving much that is roughly described as good bad and ugly.
And the future holds more of the same.
Yet, moral discernment is a complex ability.
We need to use it in all manner of ways.
Today I fail.
Again, and again, and then, perhaps I will learn to set myself right.
In this same sense, some of us live and learn to some degree…
What we write on this wall is a true measure of our moral responsibilities.
I like to read and believe ever word on this wall of ours.
May we all contribute many more paragraphs….
A gallstone wedged in the liver or stuck in a canal that runs between it and the gallbladder…
Huge pain, from a bundle of nerves, it radiates under the shoulder blade or is it in front by the solar plexus?
The hot pain is constant for hours, finally a change, a gag reflex, heaving and up comes everything in the stomach.
6 hours in the emergency to get a bed and a blood check.
The doc sends me home, in the wee hours of the morning.
Slash 15 years later, I check my progress.
Still have gallstones, according to the ultrasound and doctor.
I am keeping a healthy diet: much more veggie.
Is my gallbladder worth enduring all the pain?
It’s not bad when I eat right.
And I suffer a little in the late night and wee hours, but I am staying on track with proper diet, exercise and lifestyle.
My gallbladder reminds me what is important.
And if I loose it someday, it will because of an infection, or a good medical reason, not because of a lack of trying.