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Friday, February 6, 2009
Life 101
get. However as life goes on, some of those chocolates you start to
recall tasting their bitter-sweetness before.
This I consider "the cycles of life". These cycles go around in large
circles like the vunerability of being a newborn to the vunerability
of being an elder. There are also smaller cycles like love
relationships that repeat the same patterns. These cycles even repeat
from one generation to another where you find yourself replicating
your parents relationship.
So what's the point of these cycles. Are they just a loosing battle?
These cycles are meant to teach you "something," as fustrating as they
may feel! You are meant to break the cycles. Be it overcoming out-
dated conditioning from your upbringing to stopping bad habits, cycles
will repeat till one day u realize "I keep doing the same thing in my
life over and over again but somehow expect a different result!" I
even believe your children "pay" for the cycles you have not broken.
If you find yourself experiencing the same shit over and over again,
it is not that you are cursed. Your feeling of "de ja vu" is life
saying "time to learn something". You must then stop and look at what
YOU are doing that causes this domino effect.
It's hard to do this (especially for someone as hard headed as me).
But it gives me a sense of relief to know that issues that repeat are
repeating in order to teach me something. There IS that so-called
silver lining to every cloud. Think of everything you have
overcome ... something good always comes out if it.
Yup it's a bitter sweet way of living but you stop going in circles
and you start to spiral upward ... to the next cycle.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Economy 101
But this dice has been thrown before... many times. If you go backwards and only focus on technology (one of many factors that effect the economy like politics, commodidies, society etc) the last time technology ruffled our feathers was in '00 with the bubble burst of the spread of the Internet. Before that, the spread of computers in the 60's (hello corporate America). Preceding that in the 20's radio, phones and automobiles thanks to industrailization that happen right before that in the 1800's ... get my point?
If not then think of how these changes affected many people. They too were thinking like you that their future was not what they thought it was gonna be. The only thing you can bet on in an ecomony is change itself.
Look at all the varibles affecting our economy today, this is my bet on this game of craps. The game itself will only get quicker. The race we on is one of making things more efficient and faster. So alot of skills out there will loose there value to the point of finding your self out of a job. If you are one of the chosen ones with a desired skill you still might find yourself getting "kicked out of the house to fend for yourself" so to speak. The corporation you work for will also have to handle the quick changes to stay afloat. And we all know if your ship is sinking you throw overboard as much as you can...
So here we are floating on this reckage called the economy. And were not alone thx to all the layoff parties and recession sales I've gone to. But what's happens next is a domino affect of individuals rebuilding there boat out of the reckage and packing light so they can be more flexible and fluid. Letting go of all the materialism that holds us down ( bye bye hummer ) utilizing the Internet ( welcome to my social network, shopping cart ... blog ) and shit I got this ship so why not sail around ( costa rica anyone ).
But all in all all these "changes" good or bad from the beginning of time has moved us forward even if it felt like it was draggin us down.
So keep the following in mind:
1. Pack light
2. Be ready for quicker change ( look out for the next generation on their heelys closing million dollar deals via twitter )
3. Live TODAY cuz if your stuck in tomorrow today will pass you by
( imagine all those vacations rather then the 401k's you lost or got tricked into ... but we cover that in corporare conspiracy 101 class)
Class dismissed.
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