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| OMG, i remembered what my third rule was.
here goes...
There are three things that I've learned over the course of the years.
These three things are now the standard metrics that I live my life by:
Life Directive #1 (Instinct): Trust my intuition.
I think I've inherited this from my mom. I have this keen sence of knowing what is about to happen. I'm just gona lay this out straight. I was driving down the freeway and I had this weird "dangerous feeling". It scared me, but I was in the far left lane with no left shoulder. Traffic was pretty heavy, but somehow moving at +5 to +10 the speed limit. A few minutes later, the second car in front of my crashed into the center divider and then spun a 270 and crashed into the car in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and the car next to me did as well. I wasn't going to stop in time. I was going to hit. Then I saw a hole on the right, so I floored the gas (yes, floored the gas) and changed lanes into the right lane. Looked into my rear view mirror and everyone else looked okay. No idea how i survived that one. So that was an example of my intuition taking over. But lately, I've noticed that I've been fighting my intuition and it's getting me no where. so, thus, i adopted this creed.
Life Directive #2 (Judgement): Failure is better than a missed opportunity.
I've been living with regret, in addition to other things i live with. I live so in-control and so static. You know how they have that little story about the guy that likes to catch butterflies, but he never catches any because he doesn't want to go outside? If not, okay, just act like you know the story. I don't remember why he didn't want to go outside, maybe afraid of the sun? or afraid of feeling inferior when he swings his net at the butterfuly and just gets a whif of air? Enjoy the failure. Keep on stepping forward, despite failure. It is mathematically possible that you might catch the butterfly on the first try. You don't want to beat yourself up, knowing that if you stepped out into the sunlight, you could have had the chance to achieve the almost-impossible feat.
Life Directive #3 (Human Respect): Golden Rule, contrapositive
You've heard of the golden rule, treat others how you want to be treated.
this is a little askew in that some people are ridiculous and want to be treated like a king or queen.
i'm not gona give everything I own to someone just because i want to be treated like a king (which i don't, by the way). mine Life directive is the contrapositive.
"Don't do to others things you dont' want done to yourself."
It's SOOOO much easier!, right? Just don't do bad crap to other people.
Treat them with some general respect.
Don't want to be cut off in traffic? Then just don't cut other people off. Of course, you'll still have people cut you off in traffic. But at least you have a clean conscience; you aren't doing the same thing to other people, of things you don't like. | | |
| not sure what you call it when you struggle to get simple things done...
when driving to Kinko's to buy a envelope and then driving to the post office to mail it out is a great great achievement for you...
when you feel like you're in a compost pit, where things just decay, debilitate and dematerialize...
when you just want to get out.... | | |
| dang, this makes three in a day.
I was stopped at a stop light one of these hot summer days.
My windows were down and a dragonfly flew in.
It crashed into my dashboard and started flapping around.
The flapping slowed and after about 10 seconds the flapping stopped.
There laid a dragonfly on my dashboard. probably all toasty from the heat (my car was parked in the sun for about two hours).
First thing that popped into my head.... dragonfly, xanga, sis blog....
sooo, I'm a little bothered by the symbolism. What do you think, sis, anyone else?
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| It seems that the new trend is integration.
Since the early days of capitalism, it was a new thing to work with competitors toward a common goal through integration of products and services. Making your products compatible with other companies' products. Since IBM made it big in the computer industry, most of the other computer companies modeled their designs to be compatible with IBM products. Do what's best for yourself and the entire group, not just doing good for yourself that might make the entire group suffer. Sometimes when the group suffers, it chains into an effect that causes everyone to suffer as well. (i.e. a recent event?)
Integration: this wil be theme for July.
A little while back Xanga had its own integration with lovelyish, datingish, hardestlevel and other blogsites.
Now, all the instant messaging(IM) program companies are integrating as well. It's a great thing to see that these companies are making their programs compatible with one another. I noticed that in googlechat, you can now bind your AIM account with your googlechat account and chat with AIM contacts AND googlechat contacts all from within gmail! Now i don't have to log into all my IM/chat programs (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Googlechat AND mIRC). I can just open the IM program that I like to use the most and add the contacts from my other accounts.
what a wonderful thing. ^_^ | | |
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