Cogito ergo sum? I think, therefore I am? Either way, what and how we think is often said to important. Even if thinking does not determine our actual existence, it very well may create our individual and shared “reality” – or at least our perception(s) of it.
It is sometimes said that there is a thin line between love and hate. Both are powerful, strongly felt emotions – you’d think might not have much else in common. Yet, it is not uncommon for people to come to love who or what they once hated or to hate who or what they once loved.
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference, apathy, and fear! In most ways, anything that is NOT love is a “call” (and need) for it. Yet, where and when there is fear (or hate), it often seems as if there is no room for love – no matter how much it may be needed (or desired).
“Daylight Saving Time” (this year) starts on SUN-Day morning, March 14th, 2010 at 2am. Clocks can be changed but time can NOT be “saved”. Time also can NOT be “managed” – although it may be “manipulated”. The same is true for human behavior.
Do not judge those who try and fail; judge those who fail to try.
Many people do not like the word “try”, claiming, like Yoda (of Star Wars fame) that “there is no ‘try’; there is only do and not do”. Yet in addition to merely “attempt”, “try” has other meanings (and motives) – worth considering.
Happy Days was a popular television series about life in the 1950s (in Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Happiness is a place people can come from. Bliss may be something to follow, buy happiness is NOT a state to pursue (even if doing so is regarded as a Constitutionally self-evident “right”).
