Sharing Wisdom Through Experience
Are we the voice of thoughts?
A 2020 study, published in the journal Nature Communications was carried out by psychologists at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
They uncovered that humans think an average of 6,200 thoughts a day.
All thoughts are outward and come from an experience. This is the “cause” of the thought, and the “effect” is our reaction to it.
Through my own learnings, I am coming to an interesting idea.
Continue reading “#103 – Who Is That Voice In My Head”
I’m not a Trekie by any stretch of the imagination.
I’ve only watched, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
It’s up for debate, but the Inner Light is arguably one of the best episodes ever created.
Continue reading “#102 – The Inner Light – How an Iconic Sci-Fi Show can Enlighten Us”
Imagine if you will.
Having to drink your own urine to fight dehydration.
So little food that you can count the number of grains of rice for dinner.
Imagine taking part in a daily dance, called the Death March, where you are tasked with holding a heavy object over your head and the moment you drop the object, your life ends.
Continue reading “#101 – The Dragon That Saved a United States Veteran”
It’s easy to blame others for our problems.
It’s easy to push off responsibility to someone else.
However, what we perceive as easy, is nothing more than denying the inevitable.
Continue reading “#100 – Point the Finger, and Three Fingers Point Back”
We all deal with stuff. This can aptly be described as suffering.
When we are in the thick of our own suffering, it seems as if the world is closing in on us, and the capacity to deviate from the emotions of those issues may seem intolerable.
However, there is a refuge, a safety net, and new ways to comprehend our problems when it seems we have no way out.
I feel as if I’ve gone through hell and back these past few years. I’m still here, smiling, living, and embracing every single second I have on this giant spinning rock.
I hope the reasons presented, offer you some level of peace and tickle a funny bone.
No matter what you’re going through, you’re going to be okay, because if you’re reading this, then you’re alive, which is an excellent segue into my first point.
Enjoy!
Continue reading “#99 – 4 Reasons You Should Laugh at Your Problems”
A few months ago, I made the decision to leave my job. The factors and series of events were many that led to this calling, and untimely as it may seem to outward eyes, it was a yearning and timed perfectly for the sweet fruit of change was ripe for the picking.
I think much of life is a tug of war between what is within our control and what’s not.
Having a watchful eye on events outside of my control and being mindful to not be vested in their outcome has been important for my sanity.
Continue reading “Homeward Unbound- Chapter 6: Leaving My Tech Job, Nomad Life, and Re-thinking Reality”
Perhaps the greatest gift bestowed to each of us is our innocence. In a grief-stricken world driven by calamities and chaos of varying degrees, it is difficult to maintain the innocence of our youth. Where the world was once new, and the peculiar and weird were something of amazement. I am surprised to still carry some of this innocence and bewilderment, even if only an iota.
To see the world every day as new, untamed, and full of possibility is a beautiful thing.
I have promised the self a life of growth, that is it.
That with each new day, I have become a man who can, with all sincerity and honesty, make the bold statement, that I am a better man than yesterday. With this, I take great pride.
Continue reading “Homeward Unbound —Chapter 5: Deliberation with Nature”
It was 7:00 PM. We had just traveled about 6 hours from Phoenix, AZ to San Diego, CA. There, Alicia felt terrible and I was agonizing over yet another emergency room visit. We knew the drill. It would be yet another visit where doctors tell us nothing. Another tedious emergency room bill to deal with. Another visit with no answers, diminishing hope, and continued despair.
I made the decision to drive back to Phoenix, AZ. It’s where she felt good. It was her safe zone. A term we use for locations where the potential of her health being comprised is minimal. She has the nose of a bloodhound and her body responds in accordance with her present environment.
Continue reading “Homeward Unbound — Chapter 4: The Worst Day Ever, Tears, and Triumph”
Our hotel was on Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alicia insisted on taking me to her favorite eatery, Urth Cafe. It was located in the Wynn Hotel. We had to cross Frank Sinatra and Sammy David Jr. Drive to get there.
These men were members of the original rat pack. They were gentlemen, modern George Clooney types. The types of men I looked up to. They had class, and style, got up to politely greet a woman when she entered a room, and had a certain Je Ne Sais Quoi about them.
They lit up Vegas a half-century ago.
Continue reading “Homeward Unbound — Chapter 3: Sin City, Rethinking Reality, and Lessons From the Road”
Continue reading “Homeward Unbound — Chapter 2: Crater Lake, Camping, Death Valley, and a Near Death Experience”“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson