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sal: define "in love with".Sal
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Hi Sal ,thanks for the post.
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Are you in love with your life or are you in love with your past? But life is never concerned with the past .
We are all a product of our past.________________________________________
I see that you're an advocate for all .
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Life, like the swift-running water is always going forward and is never still and stagnant.
The past , no matter how rich and beautiful - 'was' and it will never "be again".
Are you in love with your life
Define "in love with".
Obviously Sal you already have the answer to your own question ,so why bother .
So why bother... why bother with what China?
As you can clearly see by the various answers in this thread, life is not like a swift-running water always going forward. Life is indeed concerned with the past.
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If not ,then it is one of those things that you'll have to "think it out " yourself , no 'ready answers' in life
Indeed. This line says it all. Party on. I'll just take my exit.
China : respect "what IS " for what it IS, 'cause it IS
Ha,I,ve told you ,you already knew the answer.
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You didn't meet your husband until *after* your crippling accident? Then he did so bargain for it, and you must be a couple of pretty extraordinary people.
'Course I knew that about you anyway... :smile:
But back to the OP's question. I'm not sure I know what it means to love your life, which is really why I waited so long to post in this thread. I certainly enjoy my life, I have interesting and useful things to do and lots of loving people around me, and I can afford to do anything I want and go anywhere I want, but the notion of loving my life never occurred to me. Love isn't the word I'd apply to how I feel about my life, I generally reserve that word to apply to people in it, not the thing itself.
China's brilliant at asking deceptively complex metaphysical questions I've never thought about.
Hi lone wolf,
Like the first part of your name,the second one also; its hard to "be that " here in China .Miss my solitudes in a Canadian wilderness.
Getting back to your post ....what is it that you "pretty much have to " and what are you getting ?
Like the first part of your name,the second one also; its hard to "be that " here in China .Miss my solitudes in a Canadian wilderness.
Getting back to your post ....what is it that you "pretty much have to " and what are you getting ?
Pretty much have to love this life. It's the only life this version of me is going to get....
Wolf
Wolf
Dexter Sinister,
On the other hand ,I like your logic Dexter though I think you will agree with me that there are moments in life that can be very illogical ; how do we react to those moments when... 'there is no logic'?
Thank you Dexter.Never thought you like my posts.
On the other hand ,I like your logic Dexter though I think you will agree with me that there are moments in life that can be very illogical ; how do we react to those moments when... 'there is no logic'?
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lone wolf
Have you ever thought that it is You who makes the "version"? Does life make you? What is Life?Lets talk.
lone wolf
Have you ever thought that it is You who makes the "version"? Does life make you? What is Life?Lets talk.
Oh, I've created and re-created the versions of me several times over. It's when I relax, let go and let it happen the way life unfolds - with good, bad and everything in between - that I live in harmony with my spirit and love the life I lead. Nothing troubles this conscience, yet I know I'm no angel. I have peace of mind. No matter how much I may dislike where I am at the moment, another page will unfold in my book of life tomorrow.
Wolf
I've never thought of them in terms of liking or not liking them. I often don't understand what your point is, but you're obviously no fool, you're a bright guy with a lot on your mind. You're certainly challenging and you've made me think about things I wouldn't otherwise have thought about, and think about things in different ways than I ever have before, and that's no bad thing. It's people like you, people who think so differently from the way I do, that draw me to places like this. I'm a little unhappy to learn that you thought I don't like your posts, I never meant to give you that impression. It's incomprehension, not dislike.
Absolutely I agree. Things often don't make sense to me, and somehow they always involve people who don't think the way I do. Most often it's my wife. She routinely makes leaps of logic that go right by me, I have no idea how she does it or how she got there, but 27 years with her have shown me that she's not wrong very often. Obviously she understands things I don't.
I don't know if 'I love my life', but I certainly am excited to 'be here', and feel 'lucky to be here', and
I ramain so every time I get out of bed, and look forward to the day as a new adventure, and I seem to ramain
positive almost all the time without much effort.
There are tough times, sad times and great times, and those are behind me now, and I haven't been
shattered or knocked down by any of it, so, what's next!!
My life as a child was 'very' tough, maybe that helped, who knows, but many children had it tougher
than I, I came out of it in pretty good shape, a little bruised in the personality, but nothing that can't
be managed.
I ramain so every time I get out of bed, and look forward to the day as a new adventure, and I seem to ramain
positive almost all the time without much effort.
There are tough times, sad times and great times, and those are behind me now, and I haven't been
shattered or knocked down by any of it, so, what's next!!
My life as a child was 'very' tough, maybe that helped, who knows, but many children had it tougher
than I, I came out of it in pretty good shape, a little bruised in the personality, but nothing that can't
be managed.
Dexter Sinister
Back in Poland ,when I was still a kid ,I've asked a priest once (he was my (Catholic) religion teacher the very same question ....what happens when the logic ends .I can still see the priest smiling and whispering to me ..."when logic ends faith begins".I thought that makes sense until a moments later when he almost shouted at me...."but faith is terribly logical".So it is.
So here you go Dex.
Hi,Dexter,thanks for the post.
Back in Poland ,when I was still a kid ,I've asked a priest once (he was my (Catholic) religion teacher the very same question ....what happens when the logic ends .I can still see the priest smiling and whispering to me ..."when logic ends faith begins".I thought that makes sense until a moments later when he almost shouted at me...."but faith is terribly logical".So it is.
So here you go Dex.
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Haha, silly priest.
When I was young I genuinely hated my life. I spent a lot of time thinking about mostly existential issues. Strangely enough I first learned to control my behavior so that people would treat me like everybody else and then I began to live my life the way I chose. Somewhere, between balancing what people expect and what I want, I learned to genuinely love my life.
My God wolf ,if Johnny Cash was alive he would make a song out of your post ; make a no1 country&western hit and wolf you'd make allot money too.
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Have you guys taken the Myers-Brigg personality type indicator? She is likely an intuitive and you might be a senser.
If you want I will see if I can find a decent one on line.
Okay well let me explain then what I was responding to. In your original post you made it sound like one was in love with the past or in love with the present. The way you worded it, you implied judgement and that loving one had more value or was smarter.
Now you are saying "in love with" is about respect. Thus either one had respect for their past or respect for their present. You implied one had greater value and minimized my attempt to understand what you were asking. When people do that, I walk.
You can not have respect for your present if you do not have respect for your past.
You imply that one could totally walk from one's past with no impressions left. Do you believe that?
Sal
With China's conundrums, it's best to adopt a bird like quality and fly over them for a while, not settling down on any one thing - the obvious answer is not the one he is looking for - and after a bit when you discard the obvious, the possibly missed responses are worth plucking and sharing with him...
He loves to put us in twizzles.... and I love him for it! Sometimes our first answer spoils the truth and reality of a later response.
With China's conundrums, it's best to adopt a bird like quality and fly over them for a while, not settling down on any one thing - the obvious answer is not the one he is looking for - and after a bit when you discard the obvious, the possibly missed responses are worth plucking and sharing with him...
He loves to put us in twizzles.... and I love him for it! Sometimes our first answer spoils the truth and reality of a later response.
I'll try... just for you...
The thing is, I like to know which way the train is going before I jump on board. :lol:
I don't know if I believe, but it's nice to believe there's something beyond. Whether it be reincarnate life or a spiritual hereafter is beyond today. For now, today is all any of us really have. Don't we all have those deja vu moments?. I believe in that moment my heart stopped beating, I felt myself move beyond a sterile room in a hospital. Whether the faces I saw on that journey were those of Angels, or those of unconscious memories abandoning the ship isn't something I want to find out until that day comes. I do know I woke calm, relaxed and re-assured. Only that gowned gal greasing up the paddles could have jarred away the peace....
Wolf