relationships
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Life would be so much easier if it were not for people. They all try to conform to what is normal, but nobody knows what that is. I believe normal is this: people are strange. Many are often overly critical of others while giving themselves lots of leeway. Each one believes themselves to be the…
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John and Paul were right. All you need is love. The Beatles, not the apostles. To know unbounded love must be heavenly. Love that does not limit, inhibit, or prescribe. Why do we struggle so with it? When we love someone, we want to change them, make them something else! This is not love, but…
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Happiness is a state of mind, a prevailing feeling that all is well, and a foundation for mindfulness. Everybody I know wants to be happy. We are born with instinctive needs. The need for food, shelter, and companionship is innate because it is essential for the body’s survival. Our minds are something else altogether! Our…
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Tonight, my head is filled with images from my past. I see my young self, tanned so dark that other kids asked if I was Indian. I had thick, curly hair. I wore black-rimmed glasses with one arm taped on with masking tape. The tape was a light cream color. I used a marker and…
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I don’t like myself. I am unbearable, hard-headed, opinionated, and arrogant. Sometimes I am just a troublemaker. I know this not from self-discovery, but from something less subjective. Two months ago, I came home from a day spent with friends, watching a full solar eclipse. The eclipse was spectacular! Seeing the sun disappear, hearing the…
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By all accounts Joe is ‘a good man’. He was born the only child to Joe and Joanne Wish. His parents loved each other and raised him well. Unfortunately they also gave him their unremarkable genes, and the last name Wish. His mother was short. His father was wide. Joe was short and wide. ***…
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First love, the one that got away. I know! Cliche! But so very true for many. Sometimes the end of a first love is a good and necessary thing because it leads to emotional growth. Such an experience makes us better, more experienced! There is no growth without pain, and pain leads to gain. So…
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We are what we eat. Yeah. But we become what we think. Think well of yourself, count your blessings, do not compare yourself to others. Their opinions of you is none of your business, and we should cut others some slack. Life is tough and there is no manual, we learn by messing up and…
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Family! You can choose your friends but not your family. You are born into a group of people, raised by them and set on your path of life. Mother nature arranges this, and she knows what she is doing. You are the best physical version of what you could be for your parents, and they…
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Humans are wired! Our bodies are loaded with nerves and our brains with receptors. The mechanism is the same for everyone, but the response to stimuli is very unique for every person. This requires us all to be attentive to each other’s needs and wants. Our reactions are mostly defined by our experiences, and these…
Tales from my head 