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ONE VIRTUE OF CURLING
Friday May 15, 2015
Getting what we want?
Easy. We just need chase it, be best. Win.
First, some decisions.
What do you want?
What do I want?
What do we want from each other?
… OK, hold on …
I wasn’t going down that path!
Why should it matter what we want from each other?
Isn’t life about getting OUR needs met?
Was Maslow wrong?
Every perfect child ever born has basic needs. We meet those needs because we love them, care about them and feel appropriately responsible.
As I see life, we can live our lives being givers, or takers.
Or choose some mixture.
We live 80-100 years, then poof – we’re gone.
Time specks. Nano-seconds of history.
So little time, being hedonistic takers seems a good bet.
Living a life opposite that, being total givers, covers same brief moment of history …
If it doesn’t make much difference – why does it matter so much to us?
To you?
To me?
Whoever we are, or aspire to be, we are governed by how we see ourselves. If we see ourselves as measured by worst things we’ve ever done, what are our chances?
Conversely, if we see ourselves as ‘the best things we’ve ever done’, our chances of having the life we want are vastly improved – our give/take ratio.
In terms of our short time here 80-100 years, less our current age, how are we going to use this precious time before it all slips through our hourglass? If live to, we probably have time to do a lot.
If we don’t have that long, perhaps we need to hustle.
As curling sweepers yell, ‘hurry hard’.
Mark Kolke
column written/ published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 7C/44F, misty/overcast, Gusta seemed chagrined even though we walked twice as far as yesterday but perhaps my pace doesn’t yet inspire frolicking …
Reader feedback:
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Hi Mark, Good morning, I read your musing today, I like the "design my life". My English is not good enough, but I can see it is full of positive energy, I like it. How is your foot, looks like still painful, you'd better not walk , just stay in bed and lift it a little bit higher, you can put a pillow or a pile of books under your foot . Hope your foot is getting better soon, take care. Have a good day!, EL, Calgary, AB
Nice -- love the Design My Life, LG, Calgary, AB
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