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1. I am responsible for my own life.
2. Unless you are crazy or hurtful, I will leave you alone.
3. Everything done is tempered with kindness.
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I confess so I can heal.
If I deny, I remain sick.
Too much of a good thing.
No such creature.
However, there is a possibility of too much of my good thing. An overdose of my definition of “proper” and my code of appropriate behavior.
In my lifespan, I have seen morality change so often that I think we might want to consider writing the list in pencil. Finding what is unchangeable and humanly fulfilling is like searching for the pearl of great price in a desert of my misunderstanding.
Thus my problem with William.
We had the same Mommy and Daddy. I have been trying to confirm that we have the same Father.
I am not a religious man by any stretch of the imagination, but I see no value in traveling through this life making effort to love my neighbor as myself, comfortless from having a Friend who encourages me and believes in the same aspiration.
I really don’t care if He or She is imaginary as long as He or She is attentive.
William checked out of his life too early.
He was an excellent teacher who became despondent because he cared too much. The interesting factor is that after each one of us checks out of our lives, we no longer care about how we treated the “motel room” provided. Yes, there’s a danger of trashing one’s own existence.
About 25 years ago I decided to love William no matter what.
Hell, I was lousy at it. The reason for my failure is that even though I pursued unconditional love, I realized that humanly speaking, once that is determined to be impossible, we become obnoxious to those we intended to bless. Simply put, in the process of loving William, I had too many goddamn ideas on what William should be.
So for about nine months, I walked away from my relationship with William, giving him a chance to breathe air that wasn’t contaminated with my opinion.
The difficulty lies in the fact that William tends to alienate those souls who come his way, so after several months he recontacted me, figuring that a nosy brother was better than leading a faceless life.
So I’m off today to have lunch with him for the first time in over a year. I am scared and not ashamed to admit it.
I don’t want to be an asshole.
I don’t want to tread on his very thin ice, break through and drown us both.
So I confess to you that I am a caring person who realizes that caring is a dangerous thing. It only becomes valubale if the person receiving it has some place to tuck it away.
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I did it.
I made something.
Like every endeavor known to man, I felt greatly fulfilled upon completion, and a little disappointed with the inadequacy of the final product.
You see, in my mind, it should have been much better. But when I was finished, there were flaws. To my comprehension, glaring.
It was time for a decision–a very important one, may I add. Do I stay or do I go?
Do I step up to what I have produced, proudly taking ownership, and begin to work with it until it becomes better, or do I distance myself from the project, expressing my displeasure and pretending that it wasn’t my fault?
Being creative does not guarantee perfection. Matter of fact, it usually presents you with the opposite: imperfection that yearns for your abiding, loving touch.
There is nothing I have ever done which possessed the qualities of my vision when I finished the first prototype.
That’s just life.
Where we develop a sense of purpose, devotion, loyalty and perseverance is in the extent to which we take responsibility for our labors, and nurture our creations to better forms.
Everything in life requires a second visitation, demanding that we take personal responsibility.
Is there a time to go? Is there a time to walk away from what hatched from your egg and emerged as a big disappointment? Here’s a guideline:
The most valuable concept to possess in the human brain is the knowledge that nothing we touch is birthed in perfection. You have to come around, take a look, find out what needs to be fixed … and produce the good humor that makes correction process tolerable.
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Bad language–a phrase usually associated with four-letter words, by people who act like they’ve been splashed with acid upon hearing such foulness. Truth of the matter is, there’s lots of bad language. It is also not limited to four-letter words.
Any words that are hurtful, boring and confusing are nasty and anti-human.
Any phrasing of the language that aspires to hurt people, leaves them bored or at the end of the discourse, produces more confusion than understanding is detrimental. So you can see, bad language is not limited to street talk or R-rated movies or blue comics.
I’ve heard bad language in classrooms, as teachers have espoused information which has left their students uninspired, with no desire whatsoever to pursue knowledge.
I’ve heard bad language in churches, as repetition and repudiation have caused people to recoil in fear instead of embracing a loving heavenly Father.
I’ve watched television shows espousing themselves clever by portraying what they determined to be “reality” which left the viewers hurting and sometimes even bored in their confusion.
I will repeat it again: any words that hurt humans, bore them, or confuse them are bad language.
Often people ask, “Well, what do you believe?”
I would suggest that you have a twenty-second, thirty-word answer. For instance, the Bible is full of them. John 3:16 is less than thirty words. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”–the summation of the whole Bible–is much less than thirty words.
So when the question is posed to me, “what do you believe?” I know I have less than twenty-seconds of attention span. So here’s my answer:
“I believe in a God who wants heaven to begin here on earth by including everyone as brothers and sisters and knowing that ‘NoOne is better than anyone else’.”
That’s mine. It’s not hurtful, not long enough to be boring and not confusing. Matter of fact, I’ve found it to be a conversation STARTER instead of killer.
Sometimes the spotlight will hit you for twenty seconds. You will need to escape bad language which is hurtful, boring and confusing.
What are your thirty words?
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