Greetings good citizen, an old friend of mine (may he rest in peace) was fond of saying "life is neither good nor bad, life just is."
We all know this is born of listening to EVERYBODY complain about all the ways their life has 'disappointed' them.
Nothing has changed since this individual's passing because even then it was common to dismiss people's, er, PMS as sour grapes and a personal failure to 'count their blessings'.
Funny how these exercises in 'rationalizing' glossed over the patent unfairness we all suffer and accentuate the little things we all 'take for granted' because life would be even more pathetic if we were surrounded by nothing but self-absorbed crybabies, wouldn't it? [oops! That's probably going to leave a mark.]
From the beginning of life we are given mixed messages about helping one another and helping ourselves first...seems only one sinks in, the other is tempered with 'only if it's not a hassle.'
Help is complicated, do someone else a kindness and they gripe that you didn't do enough [some people don't want 'help', they want someone else to do it for them!] This is why we laugh when these same people complain of being 'bored'. Seems the only thing they want to do is complain!
Face it good citizen, you are [most likely] surrounded by 'hot house plants' that want somebody to fawn over them 24/7 [how ironic is it that when these 'needy-greedy' types succeed in finding a 'personal donkey' the outcome isn't something precious but something pitiful, it's akin to be made to watch a Crucifixion...
Martyrs are rare but they are out there [hell has many punishments and most of them are self-inflicted.]
Yeah, good citizen, expectations are usually wildly different than reality [the wisest council ever is to abandon your expectations and to embrace what is.] That said I doubt most of us would survive very long in our opportunist dominated culture if we didn't have 'baseline expectations'.
Tyranny is being bent to the will of another (made that much more unbearable by that other's failure to acknowledge how they'd react if that shoe were on the other foot.)
Bizarre little circle there, isn't it?
Weirder is their 'rationalization' for their behavior, that THEY aren't 'weak'.
[When mercy is perceived as 'weakness' the conventions that prevent us from killing one another on sight go right out the window!]
If Hell = School you are here to learn how to 'dance between the cracks'.
Funny, in my sixty years I don't seem to have learned anything [beyond the basics we are all born with, that man is a treacherous creature you can't turn you back on for more than a few seconds at a time.]
[Sidebar] While we're on the topic of 'human nature' it's curious how your reaction to movies tells you what you're made of.
Some have intellectualized that the plot calls for certain things to happen but if an American wrote it, the 'good guy' is going to prevail, regardless of how unlikely or insurmountable the odds, in the end.
More specifically, I was watching a show last night and found myself mentally shouting for the protagonist to shoot but, naturally, they didn't [and mayhem ensued.]
Writers love to build 'tension' but I go for 'realism' [and my 'heroes' (who are often 'anti-heroes') don't talk when the situation calls for shooting. I think that's why people can't put my works down!]
Does it 'drive you crazy' that most writers let their central characters walk straight into traps that YOU can see a mile away!
If you start shouting at the screen it's not that you are losing it, it is because the writer has insulted your intelligence.
But I digress, the point here is how you react to these dramatized situations can tell you things you didn't realize about your, er, 'psyche'.
I'm guessing 'cold hard bitch' is the least recognized archetype in the spectrum. [Women are SO 'stereotyped'!]
[Back to the 'res'...]
The quiz question of the day is are we 'One People' or are we a collection of individuals who pick and choose who we will throw down for?
[Most of us had it literally 'beaten' into us that Family comes first...and the reason it had to be beaten into us is because nobody can be crueler than a family member that abuses their position in the birth order [this is the Mother of all 'selfishness'.]
IF we are to survive into the future we must first 'sacrifice' our petty family allegiance for the larger allegiance of our shared humanity.
It IS the 'price of peace'.
If we fail to learn that lesson then our legacy will remain 'stupidity'.
[We fail at teaching children what they NEED to know.]
I am aware that this in direct opposition to how most of you were raised but I once again direct your attention to the 'missing' Mother Ship...we were marooned for a reason.
Thanks for stopping by and opening your mind,
Gegner
We all know this is born of listening to EVERYBODY complain about all the ways their life has 'disappointed' them.
Nothing has changed since this individual's passing because even then it was common to dismiss people's, er, PMS as sour grapes and a personal failure to 'count their blessings'.
Funny how these exercises in 'rationalizing' glossed over the patent unfairness we all suffer and accentuate the little things we all 'take for granted' because life would be even more pathetic if we were surrounded by nothing but self-absorbed crybabies, wouldn't it? [oops! That's probably going to leave a mark.]
From the beginning of life we are given mixed messages about helping one another and helping ourselves first...seems only one sinks in, the other is tempered with 'only if it's not a hassle.'
Help is complicated, do someone else a kindness and they gripe that you didn't do enough [some people don't want 'help', they want someone else to do it for them!] This is why we laugh when these same people complain of being 'bored'. Seems the only thing they want to do is complain!
Face it good citizen, you are [most likely] surrounded by 'hot house plants' that want somebody to fawn over them 24/7 [how ironic is it that when these 'needy-greedy' types succeed in finding a 'personal donkey' the outcome isn't something precious but something pitiful, it's akin to be made to watch a Crucifixion...
Martyrs are rare but they are out there [hell has many punishments and most of them are self-inflicted.]
Yeah, good citizen, expectations are usually wildly different than reality [the wisest council ever is to abandon your expectations and to embrace what is.] That said I doubt most of us would survive very long in our opportunist dominated culture if we didn't have 'baseline expectations'.
Tyranny is being bent to the will of another (made that much more unbearable by that other's failure to acknowledge how they'd react if that shoe were on the other foot.)
Bizarre little circle there, isn't it?
Weirder is their 'rationalization' for their behavior, that THEY aren't 'weak'.
[When mercy is perceived as 'weakness' the conventions that prevent us from killing one another on sight go right out the window!]
If Hell = School you are here to learn how to 'dance between the cracks'.
Funny, in my sixty years I don't seem to have learned anything [beyond the basics we are all born with, that man is a treacherous creature you can't turn you back on for more than a few seconds at a time.]
[Sidebar] While we're on the topic of 'human nature' it's curious how your reaction to movies tells you what you're made of.
Some have intellectualized that the plot calls for certain things to happen but if an American wrote it, the 'good guy' is going to prevail, regardless of how unlikely or insurmountable the odds, in the end.
More specifically, I was watching a show last night and found myself mentally shouting for the protagonist to shoot but, naturally, they didn't [and mayhem ensued.]
Writers love to build 'tension' but I go for 'realism' [and my 'heroes' (who are often 'anti-heroes') don't talk when the situation calls for shooting. I think that's why people can't put my works down!]
Does it 'drive you crazy' that most writers let their central characters walk straight into traps that YOU can see a mile away!
If you start shouting at the screen it's not that you are losing it, it is because the writer has insulted your intelligence.
But I digress, the point here is how you react to these dramatized situations can tell you things you didn't realize about your, er, 'psyche'.
I'm guessing 'cold hard bitch' is the least recognized archetype in the spectrum. [Women are SO 'stereotyped'!]
[Back to the 'res'...]
The quiz question of the day is are we 'One People' or are we a collection of individuals who pick and choose who we will throw down for?
[Most of us had it literally 'beaten' into us that Family comes first...and the reason it had to be beaten into us is because nobody can be crueler than a family member that abuses their position in the birth order [this is the Mother of all 'selfishness'.]
IF we are to survive into the future we must first 'sacrifice' our petty family allegiance for the larger allegiance of our shared humanity.
It IS the 'price of peace'.
If we fail to learn that lesson then our legacy will remain 'stupidity'.
[We fail at teaching children what they NEED to know.]
I am aware that this in direct opposition to how most of you were raised but I once again direct your attention to the 'missing' Mother Ship...we were marooned for a reason.
Thanks for stopping by and opening your mind,
Gegner
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