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[thefirstchoice]

Goals ...

I have a question. Ideally, if circumstances and odds weren't stacked against you and you were free to pursue whatever goals you wanted to and pursue whatever life styles or careers or what have you with your life, what would you be doing? Thank you for your answer.

— aleatoryalarmalligator

What a fun question, this fan thing never worked for me before, so I will answer in a post. Honestly I can say that for the most part, I have never set or had a goal. I guess if I were to say a goal, it's always been to be the best right now, at whatever. My outlook and attitude about life ... Be happy Now, and make life better in everything I did was not a goal. This did btw, drive my father crazy, He was an efficiency/planning/methods/ecology engineer manager kinda guy, that designed factories and who was completely goal oriented and driven. Making life better in everything I did, required me to be the best at everything I did, which required me to stay always focused to the tiniest of details and did not leave much "extra time" or luxury to have dreams per say. And because everything changes always, being completely aware of now, I can feel the subtle energies shift in everything around me, and has always offered the best perspective on seeing opportunities as they arise. From one perspective it could be said, my life is shit, because i have had every circumstance imaginable thrown at me over the past many years now, and my current situation is one that most people would not wish on an enemy let alone have to live through themselves.

I have to lean heavily though towards the perspective that everything is exactly perfect right now as it has unfolded. Trust me on this, If I was a planning person, snowballs chance in hell I would have planned things out this way. I could also say ... getting here has been very interesting.

Now that all being said, the way it appears that things are unfolding, with but a tiny little nudge from me ... perhaps travelling and living in a vintage westphalia, following the nice weather of the south and south west, managing this blog, meeting all sorts of interesting people, and see what unfolds along the way, till my final breath seems a nice idea.

Thank you for the fun question, and I hope I have answered it sufficiently, hey, if not... feel free to ask more?

Wishing your day is filled with smiles, hugs, love and loads of happiness. 

--tfc

[thefirstchoice]

Loyalty

Loyalty to non-violence, always. Loyalty to country, if it offers safe refuge and promotes non-violence, sure. Loyalty to a government, if it upholds non-violence for everyone equally, sure. Loyalty to any group of people, if they stand for non-violence, sure.

Sorry Samuel, different times my friend.

--tfc

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain. (via quotedojo)

[thefirstchoice]

Choice ...

My freedom comes with her passing.

Her passing breaks my heart.

How can I look forward to my freedom?

[thefirstchoice]

Going with the flow

me: like all things in life, go with it an play an see where you go, or fight it friend: i usually just go with the flow me: nice way to go ... unless the flow is going over a cliff... :p friend; LOL me: *curtsies politely* ... thank you .. thank you ... :D

[thefirstchoice]

Cause and effect

The effects can not be changed,

If the cause is ignored.

[thefirstchoice]

The First Choice ...

The First Choice blog is a mirror to my observations of "life." You will see so much of what is beautiful in life. I love all sorts of beautiful things, "Stuff I love," both natural and person-made. You will also see what is ugly and thought provoking. The parts most people choose to ignore. In my observations of life, Both "good" and "bad," for all life, are related to a single choice. The choice to either accept or reject justifiable killing. The human "model" for when, where, what and who it is okay to kill, is an ever evolving model of some seriously elaborate smoke and mirrors, contradictions, complications, never ending, always revolving door of "details" and just pure unadulterated BS. No one escapes the responsibility. It always "catches up," some call that karma, or justice.

Justifiable killing is, at the polar extreme opposite side of nature and all life. There has never been, nor will there be, peace, love, compassion, so long as justifiable killing is an acceptable solution to anything. The people of the world will always need to be told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, as long as they believe there is some acceptable justification for killing. There is, was and will always be, an ancient solution and choice.

[thefirstchoice]

Thou shalt not kill.

chlomeygosh said: I like the reclarification. I might say that it is ultimately Jesus’ commandment to love your neighbor as yourself that isnt being met/understood, which ripples to the others. The illusion of separateness seems to be the root of most if not all evils

2 inseparable sides to the same coin ... If you ignore either side, you negate the other. If you live according to one, you automatically live by the other. Yes, the illusion ( and lie ) of separateness "opens the door."

Loving your neighbor, is the same as not harming your neighbor, which by it's very nature is reflexively equal to, wanting your neighbor to love you, and not harm you.

--tfc

[thefirstchoice]

The smallest act of kindness, done with the grandest intention of causing or sharing happiness, IS the greatest gift of gratitude to all life, that any person can choose. --tfc