What are your daily habits?
An average weekday….
Wake up
Say good morning to the dogs
Drink water
Go to work
Let the dogs out/back in
Go back to work
Feed the dogs
Feed me
Sit outside with the dogs and a book
Go to bed
Category: Random
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That’s fine, keep knowing shit, rock on!
But if you don’t know, don’t act like you do. Don’t tell someone – with gusto – that their idea or thought is wrong or can’t be done, and then give them some dumb ass, non-answer answers when they question why so that they can understand for now and in the future. This makes them question further, and you would save time, energy, and frustration for both parties if you simply fucking admit that you don’t know.
It is absolutely fine not to know. Be ok with that fact, and push yourself to learn more. It is much more detrimental to pretend that you know rather than admit you don’t. You can solve lack of knowledge. You can’t solve ignorance or ego.
Oh, and this especially applies to you acting like you know based on any sort of assumption about other people’s thoughts or actions (that you haven’t witnessed).
Today’s lesson: Pretending that you know? Asshole. Admitting that you don’t know? Exemplary human being.
That is all. Have a wonderful evening!
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What exactly is the function of the Adam’s apple, current or past?
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How do you waste the most time every day?
Overthinking or going down a random rabbit hole of information.
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What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
Physically? My eyes.
Mentally? My intelligence.
Emotionally? My tendency towards compassion.
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Almost everyone in the world has heard of a person being a “jack of all trades”, but I have actually heard it expanded. I don’t know what the original is or who wrote it. It’s something like – and I’m paraphrasing here – “a jack of all trades and a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”
Generalism as a word is actually not found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, though generalist is. An internet search for generalism gives you articles on medicine, ethics, a few on butterflies of all things, and random definitions – all of which basically state that generalism is the practice of not specializing your knowledge base.
I have come to realize that I am a generalist. I know tidbits about a lot of different things, but I am not necessarily an expert in anything. I am ok with that. I truly believe that knowing more about many different things is better than knowing everything about one particular thing. It opens your mind to possibilities, to relationships between things. I know now that being stuck in a certain area of knowledge – like medicine or physics or finance – wouldn’t be enough for me. Yes, it would be riveting and fascinating, but still somehow….. not fulfilling. And that I am not ok with.
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How many times have you said this to others or yourself? And how many of those times was it actually true?
I’m truly beginning to question anyone saying this, including myself.
I have seen many instances of someone saying this, but they really do care. They have a preference, or they would be hurt by a particular outcome, or whatever the case may be. But those words and feelings are stifled by the urge to please, or the need to not hurt someone else. And, for the record, not hurting someone else can often hurt you in the process, and neither is actually less hurtful than saying what you think right off the bat.
And this applies to situations where you did the right thing, but there was negative feedback, or you were hurt in the process of doing the right thing. You say, “I don’t care” or, even better – “I don’t care anymore“. And you do care. You care hardcore, from the tips of your toes to the top of your head and from there to the moon and back – you. fucking. care. But you’re putting up a front so you don’t have to deal with the pain of still caring. But ya know what?? The pain you cause yourself by ignoring the pain of caring is worse than anything, because it impacts not only you, but others that you care about, and you don’t even realize.
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What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Well…. I have done without lots of different things in the course of my life – some luxuries, some necessities.
I can honestly say that there isn’t a luxury I can’t live without. In some cases, would it suck? Would I bitch and complain for a bit? Absolutely. But my mind and my body are fully capable of adapting, and I would survive, and still be breathing to conquer the problem a different day. And that is the key.
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Random memory time!
Forever ago, I saw an ad for Celebrex, an anti-inflammatory drug. The narrator at one point says, “A body in motion stays in motion.” This was a cute little reminder to people to keep moving before you can’t because of your condition. Phsyics aside, I think of that quote often, even though i first saw that years and years ago. I try to use it to remind myself that I need to get up and move to keep my condition from getting the better of me.
I was just sitting here and that popped in my head and I realized it’s the one useful thing I ever got from a drug company and didn’t have to pay for. i could rant for pages about the evil of pharmaceutical companies, but I won’t. Today, I would just like to thank whoever wrote that commercial and the drug company that paid for it. 😊
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 