FOOD FOR THOUGHT SONG APPETIZER:
Would life be any fun, if you weren't always "scared" of something on some level?
How would that be on the regular? You'd have none of those simple annoyances and worries, like not having a care for whatever ends up in your stomach for dinner this evening, until it happens. Or, getting your taxes in, because your spending the time doing them, and you've done them your whole adult life.
Now a lack of fear doesn't mean you won't experience things you hate or dislike; you just don't fear experiencing them when they happen as you know they may. Because you know you have good "forage". And if you don't, you trust nature and the highly present and persistent survival instincts it gave you. You'll know how to find it. Finding is fun. Even finding time to do your taxes. You don't have to fight for survival. That's already in you. You've done that plenty already. How boring? Don't fight with it, play with it, and accept your lumps. You can't fight it, the F-Factorium in your brain, but you can play it, along the way, because you fear not fear, because fear is a factor of the F-Factorium, and fear can even be fun, and very motivational.
The Five Primal Fs of evolution, the motivational behaviors in the brain that drive the activity in the hypothalamus of vertebrates, especially mammalian (you're a mammalian vertebrate) are fascinating and fun: Fight (confrontation), Flight (non-confrontation), Freeze (Brain Freeze, do nothing/Sleep), Forage (Find), Food (eating/drinking), Formicating (Mating/Maternal/Paternal instincts), and Fun (Play/Adventure)! Everyone is fixated in these, no matter what fancy or fantasy they pretend.
Huh, counting them up, I guess there are more than five (or four as originally foisted by evolutionary biologists), especially when you include fascination/curiosity and the F-foraging of the mind (Learning) ... finding out things is rewarding - The joy of discovery!
If nothing really got a rise out of you, in this fearless state, would you even forget to breathe sometimes in such a peaceful hibernation? Nothing to stir you, sift you, or sore you. Death, always the chaotic friend you meet at the dawn of another day, to conquer the darkness again, and win all the obstacle courses, or at least get through them, with maybe a few scrapes and bruises. Yay! And maybe even having a good ol time doing it, despite the upsets and unplanned events that appear ... most of the time...or not most of the time. Some days you may have a pretty bad go f things...but most of the time things go alright, and you can regroup the next day with new plans. I think most of us would get really bored if everything always went as planned. Humans love a mystery and a challenge, generally, and we're highly adaptable, or at least said to be when not riddled and restrained by cognitive biases.
Or maybe, without any fear or worry, or complaints, people around you would think you somewhat too staid to be thought fully conscious, maybe seeming uncaring, unaffected, or a dullard, out of touch and near comatose. Or maybe a robo-tron, who only answers when addressed, and speaks and behaves as programmed. Are you a robot, programmed by your DNA (nature/set) and your culture (nurture/setting)? Maybe so, at least to some degree.
Yet in the utmost degree of not having any fear, you may seem silent, distracted, head in the clouds, foolish, or even shy, because you wouldn't really experience the world in the common language of fear. Conversations with "normals" would probably always awkward. I'll bet a lot of the fear others entertain would look silly, and pointless … Maybe that's why the tribal idiot, the fool on the hill is laughing so much?
Maybe you'd be mostly non-responsive, or maybe just an idiot who spends most of their time smiling and riding the raging river that is called life, as a modern primate during the flood of fellow apes..
I salute you, my fellow primates... especially those whose rivers have stopped raging, and are experiencing calm waters...and lest I expand on "rivers", or even get to livers, I should say, if you can't be a great ape, at least be a good one!
That should do it, no matter how you make your way. A life filled with goodness over time becomes a great thing, like compounding interest.
May you never die before your true death, and never shed one tear at your time of passing for anything lost, especially your life because you know you lived it full ... maybe just tears of gladness when your last words are, "Thanks for the trip god, and to all that rode it with me by my side!", before your brain cashes out its chips and your last experiences during brain death are out of this world!
And if you feel like you've died a thousand times already in your life, count yourself one lucky sucker when the real one comes! Maybe call yourself, "Spared-a-plenty!" before that one event that was one too many.
FWIW: Most animals forget distress and near death disasters quickly and get about their ways...re-stabilize back to a normal "on-state" situation a-okay, much faster than we human beings do. I also know that high cortisol levels from stress is bad for your guts, and your nervous system, among other things, and shortens your life, and ages you. Most of the time, you should follow your gut, and your better human instincts, instead of the BS people-bots from corporate earth sell you or tell you. None have your best interest in mind, and if so, rarely.
Let's show those overachievers how it's done! Worry less, take less, do more with less. Stop consuming what you don't need, and swallowing what is bad for you, even in the long run. Be good, do good, feel good. Be average. Nobody ever said you had to be great. Well the scientists did when they named us, but you know, as animals go, most are rootin' for the home team (altruism/loyalty). And scientist have been wrong before, fooled by their own biases. I don't think humans have better lives or a better experience of life than any other animal. In fact, it has been soundly shown that the more you know and understand, i.e., the more intelligent you are, the less happy will be ... but does a squirrel worry when scurrying about their day, wondering what makes them truly happy, or would the answer simply and always be, "Whatever I'm doing or experiencing right now." Animals are self confident, really. And if you're miserable, maybe you're a sick twisted bastard who enjoys it... well that, and maybe singin' the blues... I doubt squirrels ever sing the blues. I know they sing whenever a predator or a threat is about, and especially upon escape.. Probably something along the lines of, "I Will Survive!" sucka!
We are now entering the power of the minus, the takeaway....We're good apes at best, and when we're a lot of good for a lot of the time, or at the important times, we're great! It's our adulation of mother nature being kind and interesting and wonderful through us, humans who make mistakes, maybe because we think too much about what doesn't suit the situation, more than all the things that do. And growing up, humans complain a lot, until they get older and wiser, and realize just how good, or better than average life has been, and realize that life includes pain, along with the comfort. And believe it or not, it's better to feel great, than to look great...especially after a hurricane, or a flash flood.
And, d'you-know? This might just probably be how all the other animals experience things by degree, every day, especially the ugly and weird ones.. who neither find themselves ugly or weird, because they keep making more of themselves. Just like us. But I think we tend to make too much of ourselves.
Who Knows? It may all be just right, and just as it should be..
Would life be any fun, if you weren't always "scared" of something on some level?
How would that be on the regular? You'd have none of those simple annoyances and worries, like not having a care for whatever ends up in your stomach for dinner this evening, until it happens. Or, getting your taxes in, because your spending the time doing them, and you've done them your whole adult life.
Now a lack of fear doesn't mean you won't experience things you hate or dislike; you just don't fear experiencing them when they happen as you know they may. Because you know you have good "forage". And if you don't, you trust nature and the highly present and persistent survival instincts it gave you. You'll know how to find it. Finding is fun. Even finding time to do your taxes. You don't have to fight for survival. That's already in you. You've done that plenty already. How boring? Don't fight with it, play with it, and accept your lumps. You can't fight it, the F-Factorium in your brain, but you can play it, along the way, because you fear not fear, because fear is a factor of the F-Factorium, and fear can even be fun, and very motivational.
The Five Primal Fs of evolution, the motivational behaviors in the brain that drive the activity in the hypothalamus of vertebrates, especially mammalian (you're a mammalian vertebrate) are fascinating and fun: Fight (confrontation), Flight (non-confrontation), Freeze (Brain Freeze, do nothing/Sleep), Forage (Find), Food (eating/drinking), Formicating (Mating/Maternal/Paternal instincts), and Fun (Play/Adventure)! Everyone is fixated in these, no matter what fancy or fantasy they pretend.
Huh, counting them up, I guess there are more than five (or four as originally foisted by evolutionary biologists), especially when you include fascination/curiosity and the F-foraging of the mind (Learning) ... finding out things is rewarding - The joy of discovery!
If nothing really got a rise out of you, in this fearless state, would you even forget to breathe sometimes in such a peaceful hibernation? Nothing to stir you, sift you, or sore you. Death, always the chaotic friend you meet at the dawn of another day, to conquer the darkness again, and win all the obstacle courses, or at least get through them, with maybe a few scrapes and bruises. Yay! And maybe even having a good ol time doing it, despite the upsets and unplanned events that appear ... most of the time...or not most of the time. Some days you may have a pretty bad go f things...but most of the time things go alright, and you can regroup the next day with new plans. I think most of us would get really bored if everything always went as planned. Humans love a mystery and a challenge, generally, and we're highly adaptable, or at least said to be when not riddled and restrained by cognitive biases.
Or maybe, without any fear or worry, or complaints, people around you would think you somewhat too staid to be thought fully conscious, maybe seeming uncaring, unaffected, or a dullard, out of touch and near comatose. Or maybe a robo-tron, who only answers when addressed, and speaks and behaves as programmed. Are you a robot, programmed by your DNA (nature/set) and your culture (nurture/setting)? Maybe so, at least to some degree.
Yet in the utmost degree of not having any fear, you may seem silent, distracted, head in the clouds, foolish, or even shy, because you wouldn't really experience the world in the common language of fear. Conversations with "normals" would probably always awkward. I'll bet a lot of the fear others entertain would look silly, and pointless … Maybe that's why the tribal idiot, the fool on the hill is laughing so much?
Maybe you'd be mostly non-responsive, or maybe just an idiot who spends most of their time smiling and riding the raging river that is called life, as a modern primate during the flood of fellow apes..
I salute you, my fellow primates... especially those whose rivers have stopped raging, and are experiencing calm waters...and lest I expand on "rivers", or even get to livers, I should say, if you can't be a great ape, at least be a good one!
That should do it, no matter how you make your way. A life filled with goodness over time becomes a great thing, like compounding interest.
May you never die before your true death, and never shed one tear at your time of passing for anything lost, especially your life because you know you lived it full ... maybe just tears of gladness when your last words are, "Thanks for the trip god, and to all that rode it with me by my side!", before your brain cashes out its chips and your last experiences during brain death are out of this world!
And if you feel like you've died a thousand times already in your life, count yourself one lucky sucker when the real one comes! Maybe call yourself, "Spared-a-plenty!" before that one event that was one too many.
FWIW: Most animals forget distress and near death disasters quickly and get about their ways...re-stabilize back to a normal "on-state" situation a-okay, much faster than we human beings do. I also know that high cortisol levels from stress is bad for your guts, and your nervous system, among other things, and shortens your life, and ages you. Most of the time, you should follow your gut, and your better human instincts, instead of the BS people-bots from corporate earth sell you or tell you. None have your best interest in mind, and if so, rarely.
Let's show those overachievers how it's done! Worry less, take less, do more with less. Stop consuming what you don't need, and swallowing what is bad for you, even in the long run. Be good, do good, feel good. Be average. Nobody ever said you had to be great. Well the scientists did when they named us, but you know, as animals go, most are rootin' for the home team (altruism/loyalty). And scientist have been wrong before, fooled by their own biases. I don't think humans have better lives or a better experience of life than any other animal. In fact, it has been soundly shown that the more you know and understand, i.e., the more intelligent you are, the less happy will be ... but does a squirrel worry when scurrying about their day, wondering what makes them truly happy, or would the answer simply and always be, "Whatever I'm doing or experiencing right now." Animals are self confident, really. And if you're miserable, maybe you're a sick twisted bastard who enjoys it... well that, and maybe singin' the blues... I doubt squirrels ever sing the blues. I know they sing whenever a predator or a threat is about, and especially upon escape.. Probably something along the lines of, "I Will Survive!" sucka!
We are now entering the power of the minus, the takeaway....We're good apes at best, and when we're a lot of good for a lot of the time, or at the important times, we're great! It's our adulation of mother nature being kind and interesting and wonderful through us, humans who make mistakes, maybe because we think too much about what doesn't suit the situation, more than all the things that do. And growing up, humans complain a lot, until they get older and wiser, and realize just how good, or better than average life has been, and realize that life includes pain, along with the comfort. And believe it or not, it's better to feel great, than to look great...especially after a hurricane, or a flash flood.
And, d'you-know? This might just probably be how all the other animals experience things by degree, every day, especially the ugly and weird ones.. who neither find themselves ugly or weird, because they keep making more of themselves. Just like us. But I think we tend to make too much of ourselves.
Who Knows? It may all be just right, and just as it should be..
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Admit, "Who knows?" We hug each other in the dark Your system blows creating comfort speaking sparks Dream of light that might enlighten minds so stuck were it sucks and blows, especially we the frightened kind grasping at threads CH Stand by me proof Stand by me proof to know Stand by me proof to say That these are things that no one can know Stand by me fools Stand by me fools who know can't ply me truth, just say you have a soul that will never blow away V2 Tilt your nose speculate about it all your system blows throw your jello at the wall Sip that cup of tea and speak to me of things that make it go on and on. can't talk with people so vain grasping at threads <CH> BR You sing to me the dream we just can't see <V2-B> <CH> © 2015 OneToMany |