Is It Time for a Negativity Fast?

Do lawyers really care about their clients?

Was the coronavirus really that bad?

Were the masks, the shutdown, and the vaccines really required?

Does mad cow disease really make you mad?

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Is voting completely rigged?

Are Me Too people just out to make a buck, and to make waves?

Do Black Lives Really matter?

Does driving with a seat belt really keep us safe?

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Are people who ask questions on Quora jerks?

Was Mother Teresa really a good soul?

Do politicians only care about power and money?

Is everybody using the money I pay in taxes, to live on the dole?

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Is the media radically left?

Are the universities rife with people who want to destabilize society?

Are people who focus on nutrition, instead of medicine, anti-science?

Is education marching towards wokeness, socialism, and anti-piety?

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What do these questions have in common?

Suspicion, divisiveness, cynicism, are a few things that stand out to me

And it is only through self-awareness and meditation

We can get beyond this negative thinking, and restore our faith in our common humanity.

The Work Is The Master

Wrapped up in the pursuit of your goals, are your hopes and dreams.

To make something of yourself.

To do something important, and worthwhile.

To put your talents and abilities to work.

To show the world, what you are capable of.

If the goal is worthwhile (worthwhile goals involve creating, making, and growing things - things of wonder, things of beauty, things of excitement, things of nourishment), let the work be your master.

When engaged in the work, be fully present.

Obey the commands of your work.

Your future self will thank you for this dedication…

Dear Past Self,

Thank you for being committed to The Work.

For treating The Work from day one with respect.

For never veering from the thought that The Work deserved the utmost attention.

For obeying the demands of The Work, even as you toiled in penury or invisibility.

For staying loyal and faithful to The Work, even when it seemed you were just wasting your time, energy, and money.

You were not “just wasting time, energy, and money”.

Writing to you today is your Future Self.

Who, you will be happy to know, has made great strides with the Work, and is still doing what you set out to do.

You did it. We did it.

Thank you!

Your Future Self

Thoughts

In the humdrum of your day

In the midst of work and play

A thought comes your way

A thought you've never had till that day.

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Our lives are so small

But our thoughts stand tall.

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Thoughts take hold of your mind

Thoughts of all kinds

Questions arise

To which answers you must find.

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And this happens

Even as the birthday candles increase, heralding and marking your age

New thoughts wait in the wings

And enter a well-worn stage.

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Quietly, without a grand entrance

They appear out of thin air

Thoughts that weren't there

And then that were.

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Our lives are so small

But our thoughts stand tall

A thought comes your way

A thought you've never had till that day.