Weight (Feb. 23)

Each situation in life that you find yourself in has a particular weight to it. Perhaps what you are more familiar with is the term seriousness of a particular situation. While this does seem to be more clear one must also contend with the fact that even the most playful and humorous situation has a particular weight to it and some people tend to change the weight of a particular situation at a moments notice. It takes a keen sense to be able to guide the weight of a particular situation but is a skill that more people in the world need to learn, or to at least be able to judge the situation to know what the weight is without being able to guide the weight. Too many people play weight as if they are drunk without judgement or accurate perception. No matter what is going on around you, it is important to be aware of the weight of the situation.

Doing (Feb.22)

You will inevitably spend your entire life doing something. What you choose to do is entirely up to you and a lack of choice is in and of itself a choice. The tough part is making a decision on what you should be doing in an instnace when you have multiple options of what you could be doing. It is also frustrating when you miss out on an opportunity of what you want to be doing knowing that you cannot be doing just that. So what are you doing? What choice do you need to make? Will this make you come alive in what you are doing or will it slowly take the life out of you? Now those decisions seem way more important than they once were. Not to put any pressure on you but the simple choices of what you are going to do ultimately make the difference in life.

Treatment (Feb. 21)

Parents will always treat their kids like thier kids. There is nothing really wrong with this when they are kids but they should remember that kids do grow up to become adults and when that happens it is not always approprite to treat their children like a kid. There is a great deal of respect in treating people their age no matter how they act. Even in an instance where someone is treating you beneath your age it is still not appropriate or respectful to treat that person the way that they are treating you. This type of treatment of others is not always easy to do but it does make a difference in the long run. The simple truth in all of this comes to the way you treat others without concern of the way that others treat you, even in moments of frustration.

Happenings (Feb. 20)

How often do you look at the world around you and really take in what is going on? How often do you realize that your current state of energy dictates the manner in which you act? How often do you see the accidents of others and make informed decisions to not suffer the same fate? By means of observation of the happenings around you and your own reactions you may have some semblance of wisdom by which to live live and thus create new happenings. The fool to his own demise seems to be the one who pays no attention to the happenings of life where the one who is wise takes keen interest in the happenings. The best part of happenings in general is that they often offer a choice, a choice by which the next outcome is seemingly changed. Of course the best happenings are the ones by which you can laugh and be merry, but then this is only an observation of self.

Free (Feb. 19)

Economists might have you believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch. To a certain extent they are absolutely correct in that someone, somewhere along the way in the process pays for the cost of the good or service provided. However, does free in terms of cost really apply beyond the individual? You would have to believe that indeed does, however the cost of something for someone else is not something that the individual processes. The only thing the individual processes is the cost to that particular individual. No perhaps the individual has a conscious and would rather not take the free offer because of the reality that it is costing something to another individual. The reality though is that to that individual it is still free. By saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch is to assume that it is necessary for individuals to think with morals. So, by the principle of free, economists intend to impart so universal notion of moral truth.

Truth (Feb. 18)

Recently Allstate Insurance has been running a television commercial where they use clips of people from the past and the present to recreate a speach of FDR. It is the speach most famous for saying the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Interestingly enough it starts out by talking about truth and speaking truth. I doubt you will find anyone who disagrees with the reality of speaking truth but in our current relativistic society truth has been given a meaning far from what it actually is. Truth is not a matter of perspective and there can be nothing true that contradicts other truth. By definition something cannot be both true and not true. Simply put there is nothing relativistic about truth despite what our current society might have us believe. There are arguments out there that take truth in form of religion and morals and say that this kind of truth is relativistic but in reality, this cannot be true for the very reason that truth is not contradictory to any other truth. Perhaps what is more important about FDR's speach and what might actually change the world today is if we as a world sought truth as truth and then only spoke truth.

Competition (Feb. 17)

There are moments in life when you need to have a spirit of competition. There is some innate sense by which everyone knows this to be true. Every kids that doesn't want to share knows this to be true. Competition in and of itself is not a bad thing but there are moments when competition is nothing but a sentence of anger and frustration in the midst of a setting that should not have those things. The trick then is to figure out what moments in life are okay to have that bit of competition and what moments in life should not be about the competition but about something else, something more personal and more concerned with people. If one allows competition to drive them they may achieve greater things but to do it at the cost of relationships makes for a sad and lonely person.