Just because you’re one of those rare people who still bursting with energy late in life doesn’t mean life hasn’t ran you down.

My dad, my aunt, myself, are we the way we are with people, with situations that hurt us because we’re weak rather than strong??? I spanked Daisy moderately on the behind, and then 5 seconds later across her cheek hairy hard. WHY DID I DO THAT TO THIS LITTLE CREATURE I LOVE DEARLY? BECAUSE SHE GROWLED EVERY TIME I PICKED HER UP TO GO OUTSIDE [IN THE COLD] TO GO POTTY??? BECAUSE AT ONE POINT, AT THAT POINT SHE FEIGNED BITING??? SHE DIDN’T HURT ME PHYSICALLY. AND I don’t ever want her respect through fear or intimidation. And what about all those other people I hurt in previous years???😪 Shouldn’t they matter moreso!!! GOD forgive me!!! Daisy forgive me!!! All you out there I have hurt, please, please 🙏🏻 forgive me!!! I’ve been wrong! 😔

You wanna be what you wanna be

You’re gonna be what you’re gonna be

It’ll happen entually [blossoms-Bruce Springsteen].

So what are the benefits of no longer having cultural lines within America? And who benefits most from a society that is just a mixture of races and no longer specific races?

A relationship or a marriage has a better chance of surviving if we seek to help those we are married or in relationship win relationship with even during those times when they disappoint us come even hurt us.. I’m not implying that in every instance a relationship or a marriage should be sustained or even can be.

In a sense, it’s partly our responsibility not to bring those around us down. If for no other reason, they’re state of mind, whatever happens to be going on in their life at the moment, or whatever’s happened to them in their life previously, they may not be able to handle any more. Call it more of a consideration than a tactic[al move -you see we met often do things in our relationships for a number of reasons; and not always the best ones 🤔].

I just had a thought from many years ago about one of my early relations. My girlfriend and I had great sex until that one fateful day came when she said “I don’t feel like it toda or tonight”. It makes a person start wondering -at least it did me. I was unable to accept it for what it was if that in fact all it was. It nodded at me because I thought there was something wrong with me or something was going on with her and someone else. It nawed not at me until I broke the relationship. It wasn’t the last relationship this occurred. Have problems with things like this throughout my life. Problems like this at other men would probably take issue with as well as women. But also problems that I’m sad healthier, more well rounded people are able to cope with better.

If you are under the impression that life isn’t tough [for all of us]… When it is you may find yourself:

•Caught off-guard;

•Thinking life isn’t fair;

•Thinking you’re justified and turning to alcohol or drugs;

•Thinking about violence or manipulation or lying as a means of getting around your situation;

•Thinking your a victim [and all sorts of things can ensue from there[;

•If we say think something’s not right we’re more apt to deal with it wrong [some of us].

How do you react to the things that mean most to you being messed with? A lot of people don’t seem bothered by the things that bother us because they don’t mean as much to them as they do to us. But finding what does karma and then witnessing how they deal with it… Not everyone has the same value on things that we do. But more importantly, not everyone deals with things being messed with that mean the most to them in the same way as we do. Kind of complicates things a little bit. The message I’m trying to impart to you is the manner in which you deal with things being messed with that mean most to you.

I’m guessing between 25 and 50% of people won’t go away if we don’t push them away. This includes our relationships.

How we act and react to[wards] others has everything to do with how they act and react to[wards] us

You might be surprised at how many people in our world try to succeed at failing. The broken heart’s, the traumatized spirits… These adverse effects and many many more effect our willingness to engage in life, to engage with people successfully. Negative experiences often reverberate for decades andecades and take the life right out of many of us in one area or another. I think it’s a bigger problem than most of us realize.

There are 2 kinds of success:

On the one extreme it’s the one that everybody knows about and makes the person a lot of money – Movie stars, rock and roll….. On the other end, it’s the one that doesn’t come with a lot of notoriety or money, ateast not while you’re alive.

Perhaps 2 of the most important factors in success are:

1)One’s potential brought to fruition [and properly applied];

2)Do you want to succeed or don’t you [that’s obvious you say?]?

I’m not a fan of people buying things at Walmart and selling them for double or triple the price online. Nor people renting movies online for a fee when they’re free on tubi.

In all your travels and in all your trials and in all your endeavors, if you haven’t got peace, then what have you got?

GOD knows beforehand what’s best for us; what’s good for us; and what is even going to make us happy. But often times we get angry at GOD for using this foresight because we ourselves don’t trust in HIM, trust that if we should go into it, our time would be wasted, and people we care dearly for could get hurt badly [we among them]. What I’m really trying to say is that we can either trust in GOD’S foresight, or get burned because we lack foresight? But how many times have you or I gotten mad at GOD for not letting us have our own way because the only way we can know what’s not good for us is to suffer through it when HE HIMSELF is trying to spare us all that! 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷‍♂️ This isn’t coming out quite right. Sadly, up until the moment we go through something 1st hand, we think we know better than GOD. I would have to say most of us are guilty of this.

The more we want something the more the lines between right and wrong get blurred. The more powerful the feelings we have associated with something, the more the lines between right and wrong get blurred. The more money that is involved, the more the lines between right and wrong get blurred.

The fact that you exist can work against you or for you. Depending on what you do while you exist; depending on how much value you place on your existence [I haven’t even mentioned the value you place on those you love].

“In the name of progress”. Progress towards what?

Screwing up and then learning from one’s mistakes should be the 2nd or 3rd option [last?], not the 1st.

There is a minority currently existing in this country; Let us pray that it does not spread into a majority. A group godless in their beliefs. A group that believes that money comes a power, and mankind himself is solely responsible for his future. An animalistic and tyrannistic mentality – It didn’t behind the veil of seeming intelligence and technological advancement. Not even their own children come and their own children’s children, and their own children’s children will be safe from their parents – In this ensuing barrage of self indulgence and twisted reasoning.

All these resources and all this energy coming out of people in this country and yet we still have millions of people who are suffering and doing without. To me people are either doing what they want to do, what they have to do, but very few are doing what they need to do. We need to be considering our fellow human beings above all other endeavors.

GENERAL OMAR NELSON BRADLEY (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) 

Bradley is known for saying, “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”^[76] “Omar Bradley – Wikipedia” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley

We choose who we choose to get along with. Sadly, money has a lot to do with who we choose to get along with. People do things for money they will not do for love.

You take a certain combination of cultures and produce a young and something incredible happens. There are many other things out there that are unknown to us that are incredible, fascinating…

It seems to me that in this age and time as man progresses forward things are only getting worse rather than better. What precedes the cycle of man getting better and what precedes the cycle of man getting worse? Right now in this country man is full of pomp and self will and materialism and sloth and a lack of compassion and charity for his fellow human being.

One’s progress in a relationship will be considerably hindered if they are unwilling to be vulnerable. Vulnerability seems to be the last thing we human beings give up and it is the thing that stands in between us and God and it is the thing that stands between us and others and it is the thing that stands between the alcoholic and God who can only do his work once we let him in. Two things, again let me reiterate, when there are multiple things propping something up it becomes increasingly difficult to counter it. Fear and ego are generally the 2 foes responsible for many traits in us stubbornly refusing to go away, to relent. It has been my achilles-heel all of my life. Surprisingly at a very young age, I was able to get sober and allow just enough of God in. Fear stemming from years of hurt and threat from the world around me has built a callous wall of that very fabric. Ego, probably runs in my nature or in my family 1st and foremost. As I’ve stated previously, some people go through a difficult childhood but ego does not appear to be their 1st line of defense. Defiance and so forth. Nor cruelty as kind of a payback. While I didn’t mutilate animals, or rape and torture, I hurt people -sometimes unprovoked. 😪 Mostly psychologically and emotionally, at times physically.

Funny how often we end up hurting people who had nothing to do with hurting us rather than hurting those who hurt us. At a traffic stop somebody runs past it cutting us off, or at another traffic stop somebody flips us off, never to be seen or heard from again. But if the next traffic stop… We do the same to an innocent person.

As children who do you think our 1st gods are? The adults around us for better or for worse and ingrained in us the vision of God. For many of us it stays with us throughout our lives no matter what attempts are made at intervening and giving us the true sense, the true essense of who God really is, and what he really stands for.