Thought Hopping
I'm not really sure what you call this entry. This is the way these thoughts poured out of me. I'd like to think each one contains a small pearl of wisdom ... but like an essay or an article ... the next thought relies on the previous one or two. Let me know what you think
Thought Hopping to Human Kindness
By W. Owen Thornton
The more focused you become on a certain goal, the less able you are to carry other aspects of life along with you.
The faster you travel towards a goal, the less you carry with you.
The more focused you become on a certain goal, the fewer people you can carry with you.
The world may appreciate your speed and focus towards the goal you achieve, but your focus and speed towards it will cost you many other things.
An average life with some small goals attained will never be in balance the entire time but looking back on that life, a balance will be found in the average.
I once thought I wanted to be stellar, spectacular. I never made it. For a while it felt like a failure or perhaps even a punishment. But now I see average as in balance - and that is a reward in itself.
Great rewards come from great deeds. Great sacrifices must have also been made along the way.
Being average gives you a taste of many things. Most of them wonderful.
Being average is a myth. We are all unique.
Average, middle-class, people mostly experience the same things, but at different times and in different order and in different degrees. Therefore we all process mostly the same stuff but it is interpreted in different ways.
Being average and balanced and completely unique at the same time makes us all the same and completely different at the same time. This doesn't make sense but it is true and ... it is human.
Being balanced may be a myth. Sometimes we need to race to a goal; man the torpedoes: full speed ahead: Sometimes we need to ponder for a new direction. Wisdom may lie in knowing when to do these two different life functions!
Human Kindness lies in overall balance, I think. Most often human kindness lies in the slow, contemplative places and less so in moments of speed and focus. Being a good human, a kind human, may, in part, lie with being able to retain kindness in all speeds and degress of focus within your journey.
Forget your fellow humans along the journey, regardless of speed or focus seems to be a giving up of your humanity. For we are here for God, ourselves and ... one another.
Thought Hopping to Human Kindness
By W. Owen Thornton
The more focused you become on a certain goal, the less able you are to carry other aspects of life along with you.
The faster you travel towards a goal, the less you carry with you.
The more focused you become on a certain goal, the fewer people you can carry with you.
The world may appreciate your speed and focus towards the goal you achieve, but your focus and speed towards it will cost you many other things.
An average life with some small goals attained will never be in balance the entire time but looking back on that life, a balance will be found in the average.
I once thought I wanted to be stellar, spectacular. I never made it. For a while it felt like a failure or perhaps even a punishment. But now I see average as in balance - and that is a reward in itself.
Great rewards come from great deeds. Great sacrifices must have also been made along the way.
Being average gives you a taste of many things. Most of them wonderful.
Being average is a myth. We are all unique.
Average, middle-class, people mostly experience the same things, but at different times and in different order and in different degrees. Therefore we all process mostly the same stuff but it is interpreted in different ways.
Being average and balanced and completely unique at the same time makes us all the same and completely different at the same time. This doesn't make sense but it is true and ... it is human.
Being balanced may be a myth. Sometimes we need to race to a goal; man the torpedoes: full speed ahead: Sometimes we need to ponder for a new direction. Wisdom may lie in knowing when to do these two different life functions!
Human Kindness lies in overall balance, I think. Most often human kindness lies in the slow, contemplative places and less so in moments of speed and focus. Being a good human, a kind human, may, in part, lie with being able to retain kindness in all speeds and degress of focus within your journey.
Forget your fellow humans along the journey, regardless of speed or focus seems to be a giving up of your humanity. For we are here for God, ourselves and ... one another.
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