I haven't posted in a while, basically due to the fact that I have pretty busy. Life hasn't been too overwhelming but is has been constant, and constant in the fact that I haven't had much time to myself.
I have though for the past two days been off which has been very nice, I did some reading, which didn't take long. I read a book called "The Little Prince." Very easy and quick read, but so deep. Just opening doors to the reality of many situations we consume ourselves with as 'man.
Lazy: We have become a culture that want's to buy and buy and buy quick fix items so that we save time, and get instant gratification. Is that a good thing? Have we become so accustom to being able to using our money and our selfishness to get what we want, that we won't even spend time make good, valuable, meaningful relationships? I mean I guarantee that if there was a store to buy friends, it would make more money than Apple Inc. and Windows Inc. combined.
Reign: We all desire someone to be over, we want to be important to someone, we have a desire to matter, to have authority, to be in charge. Right or Wrong it is still a fixation that we consume ourselves with at times. If we could just have it our way everything would be ok. Yet, we will never be in a place to have it 'OUR WAY' all the time, unless we exclude ourselves to a place to where we are by ourselves, leaving it pointless to have it our way. What good is it to be in authority, if you are in authority over no one? Leaving us relationship less and alone
Vain: We want anyone and everyone to clap for our accomplishments constantly seeking the approval of others and yearning the glamor of the world. Forgetting the love of the people around you because you are so self-seeking and self proclaimed that no one else even matters. Driving out anyone and everyone may have even once cared about you.
Compulsion:
"What are you doing?"
"Drinking"
"Why are you drinking"
"To forget"
"To forget what?"
"To forget that I am ashamed"
"What are you ashamed of?"
"Drinking"
The sad thing about this is, we do get into these pitiful cycles without even acknowledging the fact that we have a problem. We find whatever we can to go over our problems making the problem bigger by covering up because you soon just cover the original problem with bigger problems.
Busy?: Focusing in on what is important is great, but when you priorities are out of line it can be horrible. We often focus our priorities on being successful, reliable, important to those who don't matter, bosses, co-workers, clients, when your family is laying in the dust. When you put your success in your family and your reliability on your wife/husband and kids, or try to make yourself important to your spouse, or children, that is when your world will have meaning. When you set your priorities on the things your eyes will never see.
Knowledge: The saddest thing I've read was a geographer who spent his lives studying maps of places he would never visit due to the fact that he was too busy filling his head with knowledge of these places, to bring his head out of the book in order to live a little and 'explore.'
Tamed: When will we open our hearts to be tamed to someone. To 'create ties'. When will we be able to feel the pain of missing someone. When will start asking the questions that really matter? When we ask about someone's friend do we not ask:
"How old is he?"
"How many brothers does he have?"
"How much does he weigh?"
"How much money does he make?"
Which are quite ridiculous questions, when in actuality the questions that matter are:
"What does his voice sound like?"
"What game does he like best?"
"Does he have a butterfly collection?"
Forcing us to know someone better on a more intimate level. Our priorities are out of whack because we don't want to use our imaginations and live a bit. We don't want to make ties to someone who may end of being the root of all evil. We don't want to spend time trying to get to know someone who may want nothing to do with you.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
What makes things beautiful is actually invisible. One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
I realize that this is alot of random thoughts and it can seem a bit chaotic at times, but please remember, "All grown-ups were children at one time, yet few of them remember it."
Remember
Love You Guys,
Josh
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