As my favorite English teacher might say – each has baggage that it brings along. Connotations and impressions.
Most everyone likes success: “Woohoo – you did it!”
Not too many people like excess: “Don’t you think three helpings were enough?”
But really, just what is the difference?…
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Don’t they have something better to do with their time than to complain about this or that?
And don’t they see the irony in most of their complaints?
Ok – I may have just written about another aspect of complaining, but walk with me for a bit…
While I’ve often done my own thing, I hardly ever find time to complain about the system and its fairness.
The specific incident that taught that lesson requires a bit of a setup, so you’ll have to indulge me…
I’m not sure when it happened – perhaps covering anatomy within biology, but at some point in my youth, we explored the eye’s blind spot.
And it’s an interesting realization – that the mind will “fill in” what one can’t see – in order to make the picture complete.
And lately I’ve been considering the similar effect in the social world.
Are there spots that you can’t “see”?
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My vices are few, and I think they relate to such good experiences that I can’t help but to have fallen in love – with Chocolate, Gaming, and the Shower… (I know, not what you might expect to see following the word vice, but they work for me)
The last of these because of the insights I find letting the water splash over me.
[you're not the only one .. I do some of my best thinking in the shower ... ed.]
And this morning? A trip back to summer camp as a 5th grader, and one of the lessons there.
Come along and you might find something to think more on…
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