I have a tendency to very broadly, and sometimes specifically, manage by objectives. I’m trending towards doing it less now as I close in on targets, but I think I should always have something to aim for. It brings more meaning to life in my opinion.
I think my life has been what I imagined it to be. I think when I was younger I saw a road map I was going to follow. Traditional and conventional routes associated with what was expected of me. Having a map is easier than what youth work with today. They seem to want the freedom to do anything and all that ends up offering is a lot of less.
I wouldn’t say we have a lot of control, but we do have some. Most of it comes down to actually knowing what we want. Too many have this ethereal image of goodness like the non specific image of Heaven, or retirement (which are probably imagined in the same way).
I believe in the Law of Attraction and that law requires that you need to know what you want before you can attain it. The control may come in the form of accepting, to some degree, a truth before it manifests.
That previous paragraph is not associated with materiality, although material wealth can squeak its way in as a byproduct of something better.
You offered some deep questions today. I’m spent. Carpe Diem!
@spitfire3dc you wrote, “I think my life has been what I imagined it to be. I think when I was younger I saw a road map I was going to follow. Traditional and conventional routes associated with what was expected of me. Having a map is easier than what youth work with today. They seem to want the freedom to do anything and all that ends up offering is a lot of less.”- I see nothing wrong with either course, if it means letting young people today know that they can literally do anything they set their mind to doing.
retirement- ha ha-good one. Is retirement still a thing there?
I wonder if one gets to a point of integration where this evaluation becomes an automatic ongoing process a fellowship with Life?
It would have to be beyond the point of self-integration, where one releases, untwists, and re-incorporates all of the shadow aspects of themselves repressed away for the sake of early socialisation.
It would have to be after one has reconciled the “To be or not to be” equation in my post above.
And perhaps even after one has reconciled the illusion of separation between self, others, and all-that-is.
Hmm.
Kind of a deep dive for a Tuesday morning. But most of my shallow dives tend to just go splat!
(Plus I’m less afraid of what might lurk in the depths, than I used to be)
@griz yeah, I don’t think we are separate, but also not to the point where I have forsaken my “self’ for others. The “self” that is here on this physical plane is still very well cared for.
@Scarlett
One of my past teachers, in the Native tradition, told a story of training under his “master”. He was becoming awed by the incredible wisdom and power he was learning to access; and was troubled by his master’s assertion that those who sought “the Ancient Wisdom” for selfish gain would come to a horrible end. (Scaring the bejeebers out of young seekers seemed par for the course in Native traditions! A caution to constantly and soberly self-assess one’s motivations)
He was seemingly “hoarding up” a lot of powerful Ancient Wisdom, without meaningful outlet into helping others.
And his master told him something similar. You have to train and take care of yourself first, otherwise you will not be there to help others. And he was told “the spirits” (even “the Great Spirit”?) knew the deep intentions of the seeker’s heart. And that often, great dispensations of Wisdom were granted for the sake of teaching . . . and to see what the seeker would do with it. (Which actually ties into something the Bible says about how the Holy Spirit works in seekers!)
And as they were deemed worthy “carriers” of Ancient Wisdom, they were granted more and more.
But with the caution that if one ever faltered in their worthiness, the incredible weight of the accumulated Ancient Wisdom . . . would become too great to bear.
(I’m being gentle here. As said, in the Native tradition it was not considered cruel to scare the bejeebers out of young seekers unto the full sobering “fear” of the awesome Power and Wisdom they were training up to carry. It ties in again to the Bible and the oft-misunderstood phrase, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”.)
I interact with people, so people have some control over me, here and there.
“Has your life been different than what you imagined it would be? In what way?”
Metaphorically, no. In my teenaged school newspaper and elsewhere similar documents, I said I would be a researcher out in the jungle, and metaphorically, I am. Metaphorically, everything I wrote came true in such ways.
Another wish, back then, to have all my friends live at a warehouse, and I would make money by painting huge, strange paintings.
Metaphorically true.
“Do you evaluate your life? How often do you do that?”
My life has not be very random at all. So, there is that.
I have been very busy discovering new things, so I have a lot to look back on, to see what I missed or gained.
I definitely evaluate my life multiple times a day.
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I think I do and its an ongoing process.
I have a tendency to very broadly, and sometimes specifically, manage by objectives. I’m trending towards doing it less now as I close in on targets, but I think I should always have something to aim for. It brings more meaning to life in my opinion.
I think my life has been what I imagined it to be. I think when I was younger I saw a road map I was going to follow. Traditional and conventional routes associated with what was expected of me. Having a map is easier than what youth work with today. They seem to want the freedom to do anything and all that ends up offering is a lot of less.
I wouldn’t say we have a lot of control, but we do have some. Most of it comes down to actually knowing what we want. Too many have this ethereal image of goodness like the non specific image of Heaven, or retirement (which are probably imagined in the same way).
I believe in the Law of Attraction and that law requires that you need to know what you want before you can attain it. The control may come in the form of accepting, to some degree, a truth before it manifests.
That previous paragraph is not associated with materiality, although material wealth can squeak its way in as a byproduct of something better.
You offered some deep questions today. I’m spent. Carpe Diem!
@spitfire3dc
It looks like we both dived kind of deep this morning!
That funny looking fish I thought I saw down there was probably just you!
Have a good one!
@spitfire3dc you wrote, “I think my life has been what I imagined it to be. I think when I was younger I saw a road map I was going to follow. Traditional and conventional routes associated with what was expected of me. Having a map is easier than what youth work with today. They seem to want the freedom to do anything and all that ends up offering is a lot of less.”- I see nothing wrong with either course, if it means letting young people today know that they can literally do anything they set their mind to doing.
retirement- ha ha-good one. Is retirement still a thing there?
I wonder if one gets to a point of integration where this evaluation becomes an automatic ongoing process a fellowship with Life?
It would have to be beyond the point of self-integration, where one releases, untwists, and re-incorporates all of the shadow aspects of themselves repressed away for the sake of early socialisation.
It would have to be after one has reconciled the “To be or not to be” equation in my post above.
And perhaps even after one has reconciled the illusion of separation between self, others, and all-that-is.
Hmm.
Kind of a deep dive for a Tuesday morning. But most of my shallow dives tend to just go splat!
(Plus I’m less afraid of what might lurk in the depths, than I used to be)
@griz yeah, I don’t think we are separate, but also not to the point where I have forsaken my “self’ for others. The “self” that is here on this physical plane is still very well cared for.
@Scarlett
One of my past teachers, in the Native tradition, told a story of training under his “master”. He was becoming awed by the incredible wisdom and power he was learning to access; and was troubled by his master’s assertion that those who sought “the Ancient Wisdom” for selfish gain would come to a horrible end. (Scaring the bejeebers out of young seekers seemed par for the course in Native traditions! A caution to constantly and soberly self-assess one’s motivations)
He was seemingly “hoarding up” a lot of powerful Ancient Wisdom, without meaningful outlet into helping others.
And his master told him something similar. You have to train and take care of yourself first, otherwise you will not be there to help others. And he was told “the spirits” (even “the Great Spirit”?) knew the deep intentions of the seeker’s heart. And that often, great dispensations of Wisdom were granted for the sake of teaching . . . and to see what the seeker would do with it. (Which actually ties into something the Bible says about how the Holy Spirit works in seekers!)
And as they were deemed worthy “carriers” of Ancient Wisdom, they were granted more and more.
But with the caution that if one ever faltered in their worthiness, the incredible weight of the accumulated Ancient Wisdom . . . would become too great to bear.
(I’m being gentle here. As said, in the Native tradition it was not considered cruel to scare the bejeebers out of young seekers unto the full sobering “fear” of the awesome Power and Wisdom they were training up to carry. It ties in again to the Bible and the oft-misunderstood phrase, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”.)
I interact with people, so people have some control over me, here and there.
“Has your life been different than what you imagined it would be? In what way?”
Metaphorically, no. In my teenaged school newspaper and elsewhere similar documents, I said I would be a researcher out in the jungle, and metaphorically, I am. Metaphorically, everything I wrote came true in such ways.
Another wish, back then, to have all my friends live at a warehouse, and I would make money by painting huge, strange paintings.
Metaphorically true.
“Do you evaluate your life? How often do you do that?”
My life has not be very random at all. So, there is that.
I have been very busy discovering new things, so I have a lot to look back on, to see what I missed or gained.
I definitely evaluate my life multiple times a day.
@five2one nice metaphors!
I live in the moment.
…little bites.
….lottsa chewin.
@luftballooneyegouge you are in the present with no consideration of I life is moving in a forward direction? you are a zen buddhist?
@Scarlett
I think life moves in a repetitive spiral.
I’m a Rascal.
Life is a highway…