Life’s too short to spend your life being told what to see and what to think.
Always question the truth of things you didn’t see it with your own eyes, hear it with your own hears or touch it with your own hands.
Why?
There have been many people in history who believed it was better to die for an outdated ideal rather than live a good life.
You’d think that time has passed, however, I’m sure it hasn’t. The scariest thing is those people believe they are right regardless of how many people tell them they’re not.
“How are you?” I don’t know about the rest of the world but in Ireland it’s a question that’s asked a lot with the expectation of a one or two word reply such as, I’m good, thanks. I’m great, everything’s okay and the occasional “nottoobad,” I’ll go into more detail about that response later in the post.
So, how are you? Is an interesting question. If the question is being asked by someone in the medical profession, you’d probably give an honest answer. If the question is being asked anyone else, the answer will be dependent upon the relationship between you and the person asking the question.
If it’s a man asking another man, how are you? That’s nearly always a rhetorical question. Why? Men in general don’t like discussing their feelings.
If it’s a woman asking a man, how are you? Please see the previous paragraph, same rule applies.
If a man is asking woman, how are you? That’s a different story altogether. If the woman replies with the expected positive response, that’s okay, the question will continued to be asked, however, if the woman goes into detail about why she’s not okay and there’s nothing the man can do to fix the situation, the question will only be asked once.
If a woman is asking another woman, how are you? I don’t know the answer to that one because that’s when a man leaves the room. Although I’ve heard many of the world’s problems have been resolved after that question has been asked.
How are you may be a rhetorical question a lot of the time, however, your reply should always be positive. The example below explains why.
One of the answers I used to give was, “not too bad,” however, as I delved more into self-fulfilling prophecies I changed it to, “I’m good, thanks.” The reasoning behind the change was, feeling not too bad is still feeling bad, and I didn’t want that message being sent to my subconscious mind to help create my future.
Everyone in charge knows what they’re doing is my favourite lie. The reason it’s a lie is because people are only human, they learn, they make mistakes and last but not least they follow process without questioning if there’s a better way of accomplishing the same task. If you ask the majority of people in charge why they do the things they do? They’ll answer with the following line.
It’s always been done that way. I’ll leave you with one final quote.
“The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. ” -Georg Hegel.
It’s quite bizarre how much your mobile phone and your mind have in common.
The operating system that allows you to use your mobile phone is equivalent to your subconscious mind in that you know it’s there, you don’t know how it works but you know it allows your conscious mind to function.
The memory and storage on your mobile phone is equivalent to your conscious mind in that you control to a certain extent what gets stored. The cookies you collect on websites is equivalent to the advertisements you’re bombarded with all the time. You know they’re there but you try to ignore them. Let’s look at both individually.
The mobile phone
If the memory and storage on your mobile phone starts to fill up, you’ll be informed through notifications, apps will start to behave erratically, you’ll miss phone calls, your online activity will interrupted by constant buffering. Your mobile phone can freeze until the operating system is reset or it may stop working altogether.
The conscious mind
If your conscious mind starts to fill up through stress, worry and over-thinking you also receive notifications in the form of headaches, inability to concentrate, restless sleep patterns, physical aches and pains, poor immune system and ill health. These will prevail until you reset your thought process or someone else helps you to understand the changes you need to make.
Storage fixing process
Whether it’s your mobile phone or your conscious mind, the first step is to understand you are responsible for the information you store. The second step is to realise all the information you store is historical. The third step is to understand you have the power to review and delete that information.
It seems like common sense that you’d look after your own mind and your mobile phone’s storage, however, some people don’t want to delete their history because it’s their crutch or they refuse to accept responsibility for their life.
The storage fixing process can be much easier to accomplish on a mobile phone than on the mind. However, the process works on both when you take responsibility for your life.
I know next to nothing about the ongoing conflict between Russia and its former Soviet partner Ukraine so I’ll not comment on that, however, what I know from history is that war doesn’t determine who’s right or wrong, it’s carried out by bullies who don’t get their own way through peaceful dialogue.
The people who start wars are rarely seen on the front line, they send people to die in their place. Maybe if their own lives were at risk they wouldn’t be so quick to start the wars.
