Inspiration

Thought of the day: you generally don't get where you want to go unless you want to go somewhere.  Really, have you ever gone out on a date with the super hot man / woman on Saturday night, having the greatest time and knowing in your heart you've met the person you will spend the rest of your life ( or statistically, the next ten years)  with? Well, that's a stretch, some have, some have not.  My point is you had to have wanted it. Else it would be categorized as kidnap (which seems oddly kidcentric, if you thought about it, who would want to steal a kid? If i were to grab someone, I'd grab an adult, typically there's a lot less complaining).

Wow. What a horrible start.

Anyways, you have to want something before you typically get it. Funny enough, we spend our youths "needing" things, but when we grow up can't figure out what the hell we want.

 So what do you want? Money, fame, stuff? Seriously, you are not in a bikini competing for the Miss America ribbon, so world peace is not a valid answer right now. Especially if you have kids. After a day of dealing with them, you are lucky if you remember to take the garbage out, so get away from the world peace stuff.

Someone is behind you

Thought of the day: someone is behind you. No really.  Someone is right behind you!  Please, by all means, turn around and look.  Ha! I'm assuming no one was behind you.  But you didn't know until you turned around, did you?  Well, that's the TOTD.

I have this syndrome.  It's called, "ICantStandBeingBehindPeopleitis".  Normally I don't admit that to people, but, well, there it is.  It's not that I have to be ahead of everyone.  I simply don't like being behind.  Really, what this means is I have no need to define myself by other people's actions (I came to this conclusion when I was driving one day trying to figure out if I was Mr. Testerone or if it was something else. I concluded it was something else, because I don't need people behind me which would have pointed to Mr. T.  I simply don't attend to other people who are plugging along in their own lives.  I'm happy in my own warm blanket of "stay the hell out of the way").

Mental Illness

Thought of the day: Mental illness is real. Not sure if some of you are aware. I recall a time where I was standing next to an officer who suggested that the more frequent spanking of a girl would correct her behavior after she was abandoned by both parents while she was 7 years old. The trauma from that event is real. The effects of the trauma are real. And the fact that the two people who are responsible for shaping this girl, by their actions, told her she was not worth the time of day really does play into the fact that she has turned into a hellion. You cannot hit self-esteem and self-worth into people. The officer is no longer employed as an officer, thank God. I've also heard someone say of another child that spanking would have corrected the behavior. Except the behavior was part of a frustrated reaction by a child in the autism spectrum. Really, you can't spank autism out of a child. Now this is not an anti-spanking TOTD, hooked on spanking worked for me! (Really, for the Greeks, aint one of us who didn't get the koutala). However, there is a time and place. The problem is if that is your only solution, you may be trying to spank a mental illness out of someone. 

The golden rule

Thought for the day: be excellent to each other. Seriously, it's the golden rule and the main theme in most of the worlds religions. Sad that it was expressed best by Bill S Preston, Esquire. Anyways, do it. Or you suck. Party on dudes!

Balance

Thought for the day: there is nothing wrong with professional foot care. Its a health issue, providing maintenance of an oft ignored appendage, stress relief, and cns (central nervous system) stimulation. Really, that has nothing to do with my thought though. I believe that balance is a natural principle. Just like gravity. It enacts a force upon you constantly. It does not, however stop you from going against it. You can use planes and jets to go against gravity. But you can only go up for so long (my analogy implies you stay within the atmosphere) until eventually, you lose thrust and gravity once again brings you back to neutral. The longer you go against gravity, the harder the equalizing is ( bigger crash)? So too with balance. We can go against balance and it takes effort. Eventually, our effort wanes and balance brings us crashing back to neutral. The farther from balanced you are, the harder the crash upon equalization. You can have what you want, but you must learn to get it in balance. Equalization could take from you those things you want most. Be it a marriage, ajob, your family, your friends. So, please, friends, find balance in your life. Find balance and then follow your dreams

Communication

Thought for the day: Communication is the most important thing between two people. More important than love, family, or friendship. Everything else can fall apart without communication and everything can be made better with communication. Communication must include not only saying something, but making sure the listener understands it. If you are simply talking without ensuring understanding, then you are not communicating. It is your responsibility as the communicator to ensure your words are understood.

Dogs and Coffee

Couple thoughts for today, firstly, dogs should not be aggressive in their pet seeking. If you want to be pet, stop hitting me. I realize that I am fostering your bad habits of hitting people by rewarding you with pets, but really. It's just bad form. And it's starting to hurt.


Today I have found the first pro in living in a 5th wheel over living in a house. And it's quite simple really. When I lived and worked in the 5th wheel, I could hear my coffee brew throughout my entire abode. Now, I set my coffee to brew and walk away, which is typical, however, I can't hear jack-poo from across the house. Now, I get my coffee when something brings me back to the kitchen and I see a full cup of coffee in the machine and realize that it belongs to me. This means that I never get hot cups of coffee anymore. However, if you've seen my (I'm trying to thinking of a good synonym for addiction, but nothing seems to work) of coffee, you already know that lukewarm coffee causes me no anxiety or disappointment. I am drinking it happily. :-)