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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Philangicality
When I apply my way of thinking, which is something that neither you or anybody else, ANYBODY else, can define for me. Other people can only show me their way of life and then leave me free to decide if I want to apply how they live to my own life. Life does happen in bundles of pigeonholed moments. It is pretty cool. It is like I ama movie that I can create, feel, smell, taste, hear, and see all at the same time. Almost like controlling my dreams which is a completely different thread.
Yes I am going to die, get sick, get hurt, whatever, but to me, that is part of life, taking these obstacles and eliminating from my life. The only thing that I am sure of is death and taxes. That is Benjamin Franklin I think. Everything else is up in the air at the moment.
Controlling life is how I deal with my ebbs and flows. If I have the opportunity to live a life that I am not in control of or simply change the way I live to have complete control of my life, I will take the later even if it means death, which is certain anyways.
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So then the days you are to focus, and something comes up like illness in the family/friends, you can't ebb and flow if you have rigid expectations and systems. You can't control life, no matter how hard you try. No matter how much you want that job/girl those are things you cannot control, but yet they directly affect your life and the quality of it.
Jack Canfield had in his first Chicken Soup for the soul book the 10 Rules of Being Human, IMHO a much more fluid way at looking at life than the 3 Days you've presented in your OP.
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