Lately I've been thinking. Thinking is always a good thing to do. Well I guess it depends on what you're thinking about... my study group night is fast approaching. I'm a bit nervous about attending my first one, but they seem to be welcoming and I really like that. There has to be a reason that I found out about them. Someone told me about www.meetup.com and I wish I knew about it years ago. I don't know when they first started but it's new to me.
I joined: Big Singles Events in Ottawa Group
Conscious Living Ottawa
Evolving Consciousness Ottawa
Less Wrong Meet Up Ottawa
Ottawa Dating Coach
Ottawa Women's Knitting and Fiber Art Circle
Ottawa's Very 1rst Heal Your Life Group
So hopefully that'll be enough to keep me busy for a while. What I like about it is that you can find meetups all over the place. It's not just for Ottawa, but for everyone everywhere. Beats having to rely on the internet only to meet new people... Been doing that far too much over the years. Yes, I've met some really nice people on the internet, but for each one of the nice people I've met, I've met some really messed up people. The nice & normal people are very few and far between these days. Either that or they are hiding from all the messed up people.
Although I enjoy a lot of 80's stuff, I feel like I'm in the wrong era. Society's expectations have changed people in many bad ways. Where did the modesty and morality go? Where is the humility? I'm talking about being humble, not humiliating people. People shame each other because they can't shame themselves. People want to be 'perfect' when there is no such thing, thus, they want to make or expect others to be perfect.
Why do things have to be 'perfect' to be happy? I don't understand that. Why do people over compensate for the things they lack in life when they have everything they could ever want or need within themselves?
Judgement isn't even about justice anymore. People judge other people when they don't seem to be 'perfect'. But what is perfection? Is it being what everyone EXPECTS you to BE? I don't get this whole SOCIAL STATUS thing. People end up fighting for the wrong things and reasons. When people don't understand me, they don't listen. People don't understand me due to their own ignorance or arrogance. I think a lot of this stuff has to do with the social class system. Because it's changed people's perceptions on how people SHOULD BE in today's society.
I wish we lived in simpler times. When people believed in having class, not social class. Just being classy and moral. Like in the 40's when courting still existed. Am I going to find a man to court me in 2012? Probably not... I get things like: "Hey, sexy, what are you wearing?" or "How big are your boobs?" Or they try hard to convince me that casual sex is normal. It's not. Not to me, anyway.
It is depressing to be in modern society when you have an old soul, like I do. Why can't people see the world through my eyes at least once in a while? To see how things could get better if they were like they used to be. Maybe some things got a bit better, but as far as society... I don't care for it. I guess you can call me anti-social because I don't believe in this society. It hasn't given me much hope or much to believe in. That is why I have to RELY ON MYSELF to give myself things to hope for and believe in.
I was reading something earlier that seems interesting... It's called The 6 Levels of Emotional Responsibility. How can people be emotionally secure when they are emotionally irresponsible? All I ever wanted was to be secure in life. Not financially, because that doesn't mean much to me as I want to kick materialism in the ass... Secure with myself. I can't do that without educating myself. That's why I do so much research... I feel knowledge is the KEY to FREEDOM. You know how people sometimes say that "The Truth will Set you Free?" Well the only way to discover the truth is through knowledge and applying that knowledge to personal experiences. People who are in constant denial are living a lie. Therefore, they'll never be free. Awareness is freedom. Knowledge is the path to awareness. Without it, there is only ignorance. Living one's life in ignorance is just as bad as shutting one's self off from everything that is good in life. Selfishness is ignorant. Self-awareness is way different from being selfish. When you are self-aware you are aware of other people, too.
"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change!" - Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror". I used to listen to that song when I was a kid... It brings back memories. When I go see my friend Jone, he plays that song. Went to see him yesterday. He's got this philosophy that is inspiring. He's from Africa and he said that a woman leads his tribe. Men play a major role in western society and I wonder how different life would be if it was the other way around... I wonder what society would be like if women set society's expectations... Would it be less centralized on greed & lust? I don't know, but would be interesting to find out!
If people thought of themselves and others as equals and didn't separate themselves and others due to social class or any other category, then people would feel better about themselves and other people. When people feel better about themselves and other people, they tend to treat themselves and others as they would want other people to treat them. I guess that is where RESPECT comes in... How can people even learn to be RESPECTFUL if they don't even know how to be RESPONSIBLE? Responsibility means 'ability to respond' to everything in your awareness. Denial is the opposite of being aware, at least in my mind it is. Denying the truth is just like denying yourself. Denying yourself is like depriving yourself. With everything that is available to everyone through knowledge, people have the ability to live fulfilling lives. People don't have to continually seek all those temporary conveniences in the physical realm. The physical realm is only temporary and will not lead to long term satisfaction. People need to AWAKEN to ACTUALITY. Meaning they have to ACTUALIZE their true POTENTIAL. Whether I will in my lifetime, I do not know, yet. All I know is that I am DIFFERENT in a lot of GOOD ways. There is so much negativity and evil in the world that people are BLIND to the GOODNESS life has to offer. Have you ever heard: "Seek and ye shall find?" or "ask and it shall be given unto you?" The energy of the universe surrounds us all and is within us all. Seeking it within ourselves should be the primary goal in life, not seeking 'social status.'
I joined: Big Singles Events in Ottawa Group
Conscious Living Ottawa
Evolving Consciousness Ottawa
Less Wrong Meet Up Ottawa
Ottawa Dating Coach
Ottawa Women's Knitting and Fiber Art Circle
Ottawa's Very 1rst Heal Your Life Group
So hopefully that'll be enough to keep me busy for a while. What I like about it is that you can find meetups all over the place. It's not just for Ottawa, but for everyone everywhere. Beats having to rely on the internet only to meet new people... Been doing that far too much over the years. Yes, I've met some really nice people on the internet, but for each one of the nice people I've met, I've met some really messed up people. The nice & normal people are very few and far between these days. Either that or they are hiding from all the messed up people.
Although I enjoy a lot of 80's stuff, I feel like I'm in the wrong era. Society's expectations have changed people in many bad ways. Where did the modesty and morality go? Where is the humility? I'm talking about being humble, not humiliating people. People shame each other because they can't shame themselves. People want to be 'perfect' when there is no such thing, thus, they want to make or expect others to be perfect.
Why do things have to be 'perfect' to be happy? I don't understand that. Why do people over compensate for the things they lack in life when they have everything they could ever want or need within themselves?
Judgement isn't even about justice anymore. People judge other people when they don't seem to be 'perfect'. But what is perfection? Is it being what everyone EXPECTS you to BE? I don't get this whole SOCIAL STATUS thing. People end up fighting for the wrong things and reasons. When people don't understand me, they don't listen. People don't understand me due to their own ignorance or arrogance. I think a lot of this stuff has to do with the social class system. Because it's changed people's perceptions on how people SHOULD BE in today's society.
I wish we lived in simpler times. When people believed in having class, not social class. Just being classy and moral. Like in the 40's when courting still existed. Am I going to find a man to court me in 2012? Probably not... I get things like: "Hey, sexy, what are you wearing?" or "How big are your boobs?" Or they try hard to convince me that casual sex is normal. It's not. Not to me, anyway.
It is depressing to be in modern society when you have an old soul, like I do. Why can't people see the world through my eyes at least once in a while? To see how things could get better if they were like they used to be. Maybe some things got a bit better, but as far as society... I don't care for it. I guess you can call me anti-social because I don't believe in this society. It hasn't given me much hope or much to believe in. That is why I have to RELY ON MYSELF to give myself things to hope for and believe in.
I was reading something earlier that seems interesting... It's called The 6 Levels of Emotional Responsibility. How can people be emotionally secure when they are emotionally irresponsible? All I ever wanted was to be secure in life. Not financially, because that doesn't mean much to me as I want to kick materialism in the ass... Secure with myself. I can't do that without educating myself. That's why I do so much research... I feel knowledge is the KEY to FREEDOM. You know how people sometimes say that "The Truth will Set you Free?" Well the only way to discover the truth is through knowledge and applying that knowledge to personal experiences. People who are in constant denial are living a lie. Therefore, they'll never be free. Awareness is freedom. Knowledge is the path to awareness. Without it, there is only ignorance. Living one's life in ignorance is just as bad as shutting one's self off from everything that is good in life. Selfishness is ignorant. Self-awareness is way different from being selfish. When you are self-aware you are aware of other people, too.
"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change!" - Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror". I used to listen to that song when I was a kid... It brings back memories. When I go see my friend Jone, he plays that song. Went to see him yesterday. He's got this philosophy that is inspiring. He's from Africa and he said that a woman leads his tribe. Men play a major role in western society and I wonder how different life would be if it was the other way around... I wonder what society would be like if women set society's expectations... Would it be less centralized on greed & lust? I don't know, but would be interesting to find out!
If people thought of themselves and others as equals and didn't separate themselves and others due to social class or any other category, then people would feel better about themselves and other people. When people feel better about themselves and other people, they tend to treat themselves and others as they would want other people to treat them. I guess that is where RESPECT comes in... How can people even learn to be RESPECTFUL if they don't even know how to be RESPONSIBLE? Responsibility means 'ability to respond' to everything in your awareness. Denial is the opposite of being aware, at least in my mind it is. Denying the truth is just like denying yourself. Denying yourself is like depriving yourself. With everything that is available to everyone through knowledge, people have the ability to live fulfilling lives. People don't have to continually seek all those temporary conveniences in the physical realm. The physical realm is only temporary and will not lead to long term satisfaction. People need to AWAKEN to ACTUALITY. Meaning they have to ACTUALIZE their true POTENTIAL. Whether I will in my lifetime, I do not know, yet. All I know is that I am DIFFERENT in a lot of GOOD ways. There is so much negativity and evil in the world that people are BLIND to the GOODNESS life has to offer. Have you ever heard: "Seek and ye shall find?" or "ask and it shall be given unto you?" The energy of the universe surrounds us all and is within us all. Seeking it within ourselves should be the primary goal in life, not seeking 'social status.'
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