Every Single Day You Make A Choice

[Butterfly]

4. Don't compare your life to others and don't judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about. I so agree with this one. Years back I was very judgemental and thinking the only reason people were in the position they were in was because of poor choices. I hear that statement quite a bit and I cringe when I hear it now. I have some very good friends who have fallen on hard times. Maybe some of their choices were poor, but I'm sure for them it was the right choice at the time or maybe their only choice. In any case I doubt I could have done better in their circumstances.

I agree. Much of life is just blind luck. You'd need a crystal ball -- and mine broke years ago -- to always make the choice that turns out best.

 

[SifuPhil]

In the end there is only kindness.

And weapons.

... sharp, pointy weapons, that one can deploy from one's cave when the zombies attack ...

 

[Falcon]

The highways are filled with flattened squirrels that couldn't make up their minds.

 

[Shalimar]

And weapons.

... sharp, pointy weapons, that one can deploy from one's cave when the zombies attack ...

You are incorrigible! Lulz.

 

[Shalimar]

Choices are subject to the person having the mental/emotional capacity at that time to choose.

 

[SifuPhil]

You are incorrigible! Lulz.

Hey, when you spend over 45 years of your life believing in something, it's REALLY hard to do an about-face when you're an old toot.

 

[Shalimar]

Hey, when you spend over 45 years of your life believing in something, it's REALLY hard to do an about-face when you're an old toot.

Do you have to do an about face, wouldnt't a 180 do? Moderate approach and all that .

 

[SifuPhil]

Do you have to do an about face, wouldnt't a 180 do? Moderate approach and all that .

I thought an about-face WAS a 180. layful:

You mean do a 90?

But then I would be going against my personal Tao ...

 

[Shalimar]

I thought an about-face WAS a 180. layful:

You mean do a 90?

But then I would be going against my personal Tao ...

Ninety is right. I am so bad at math. What about your personal Tao constrains your choices??

 

[SifuPhil]

Ninety is right. I am so bad at math. What about your personal Tao constrains your choices??

That's okay, I'm bad at social stuff.

Not so much "constrains"; it's just that the path I follow is nice and clean and wide and free of scary things, so I'm reticent to leave it. It's familiar, like an old pair of jeans.

I think that for those reasons, I don't WANT to leave it.

 

[Shalimar]

That's okay, I'm bad at social stuff.

Not so much "constrains"; it's just that the path I follow is nice and clean and wide and free of scary things, so I'm reticent to leave it. It's familiar, like an old pair of jeans.

I think that for those reasons, I don't WANT to leave it.

Ok. Then perhaps you can remain in your comfort zone?

 

[SifuPhil]

Ok. Then perhaps you can remain in your comfort zone?

It isn't about comfort. It's experience. It's putting your hand on the hot stove one time, and forever after knowing not to do it again.

Don't mistake that I can't venture OFF the path at times; just that I always go back to it eventually.

 

[Shalimar]

It isn't about comfort. It's experience. It's putting your hand on the hot stove one time, and forever after knowing not to do it again.

Don't mistake that I can't venture OFF the path at times; just that I always go back to it eventually.

Ok.

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[Vega_Lyra]

:wave:

 

[angelica]

7 Rules of Life


1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

2. What others think of you is none of your business.

3. Time heals almost everything, give it time.

4. Don't compare your life to others and don't judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

5. Stop thinking too much, it's alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it.

6.No one is in charge of your happiness, except you.

7. Smile. You don't own all the problems in the world.

A very admiring sight on life!

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[Bridget Truesdale]

Me too, Larry. Me, too!

 

[Nihil]

We are insignificant neutrinos in this vast universe. Nothing matters in the long run, but pleasure is the hero of the moment. Don't get caught up in the illusion that fear creates in your mind.