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Two things I consider an absolute human prerogative, the choice to use time and the time to make choices!

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The Root of Confrontations

So I've been thinking bout why there's a lot of disagreements and violent resentments across various issues around the world. A'mean it's okay if we see things differently, but why does it have to result into aggressive conflict?

It hit me today! Truth is, as humans, it's extremely hard to ignore stupidity!

If someone is being stupid around you, it feels safer to let them be and not want to get involved in their stupidity right? But on a second thought, you ignoring that stupidity inadvertently implies that you're either just as stupid, or incapacitated. Especially when the stupidity in display can hurt someone else.

See the complexity?

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Holding your Position

Some times in the game of power, your best bet is to hold your position, keep your head above water and let the currents move you. Powers can shift, people can disappear, survive and let time do the rest.

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The Mark

Some one asked me a striking question today. He said, How does a person make his mark on the earth and how would he know when he has?

My first response was a rhetorical question. I said, it sounds like that person already knows what the mark is and is only concerned with how to make it and how he'd know when he's made it. I continued after some amusements to say, "Making a Mark" is less about a destination and more about a journey. It's a search for a feeling we're never satisfied with. I think it's a quest to keep advancing. Most people who leave indelible marks on the sands of time weren't aware they were doing so as at the time they were at it (some knew, but to what extent the mark would last for, they could never have known), but years after they passed their legacies live on. The mark, I think, is in the journey.

The goal is to give everything to anything we're involved in, in all sincerity. If it's not worth doing, don't do it, but if it is, go about it in a way that you'd look back and say "there's nothing else I could have added or removed from this" and then move on to the next thing with the same drive. One day when you're not there, someone would look at what you did and concede "I couldn't have been able to do this even if I tried a thousand times" of course that wouldn't be true, you might have tried it ten thousand times before you got it done, but in that moment, you've left an "impression" in that person, and what other synonym could there be for an impression? You guess right!

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As my first draft here, I'd love to lay credence to one of my favorite Roman creeds, the "Memento Mori" meaning "Remember Death". We are plagued by uncertainties all round and through our lives but one event remains an inevitable certainty, and it's the fact that we all will die one day and that outcome is spread equally irrespective of race, gender, age, inclinations, status, ideologies, beliefs and achievements. Memento Mori calls to mind the inevitability of a common outcome for all and provokes an introspection aimed at closing whatever chasms might exist between humans. We will agree, disagree, debate, provoke, love, hate, infringe etc. It's just human nature and it's also human nature that we're doomed to the same end on this side of reality. So as we socialize, share thoughts and stories, agree and disagree, I am reminded constantly not to delude myself into thinking too highly of my ideas, viewpoints or personality because one day, all of it will mean nothing and will count for nothing in the bargain for whether I live or die. So cheers!