spring

There are many phases to social endeavor. They include failure, failure, failure, failure, and then someone you know hooks you up with a job. Those who find personal success have a much longer road with many more let downs and failures to meander through. Those who endure through these social phases then remember what they have known the entire time. They remember what is valuable. Values are never stolen or bought off. They are enhanced by the flavor of those around us. Social life ages everyone out naturally, but the values we leave behind serve as examples to the younger generation. The young do not know failure, they expect success as if it was part of the natural order of things. LLc 98.2

falls with

One may expect from all the disarray provided through certain media channels that a Republican state will become reality. With that will come a new order that will be sold as national security. Soon we will all have id badges with our fed number on them. Once the cards get boring, new legislation will be introduced that requires all of us to have that chip implanted in us which will contain all numbers and vital information; not to mention the tracking that comes with. One can expect cameras to be almost everywhere leaving complete privacy out. Social networking sites are visible to everyone; part of the transfer of our freedom to another completely separate entity. LLc 98.2

tommycat

Enlist your faculties past the bricks and barriers of your perception. Taking time to reflect on progress is fine so long as progress is being made toward your specific goal. However, if that goal has within its wrappiings and trappings a feeling of succeeding in the eyes of the other, then you have succeeded in their eyes and no other. (The Tommycat) LLc 98.2

slow

Sometimes I think the world misses out on good people because policy and procedure within a particular structure hinders progressive thinking. Those who claim to know can sometimes miss out on things they didn't know because they have been playing their hand only. They forget that the game requires more than one hand to play. Anyone who holds a set of cards should have the ability to play his hand without being slammed by the "no talking" rule. But there are many hands to play and many ways to see what cards your opponents are holding. Policy and procedure hinders that part of the game, the enjoyment of it. No joy, no game. No game, all is the same. Policy and procedure is a social construction designed to set the deck before the hands are played. LLc 98.2

dome

You have the desire to be something recognizable in the eyes of your fellow man. You then construct a bridge leading to the crew associated with what you want. Some choose an alternate route; the longer, less traveled road; the one litered with plastic bags and shredded tires. They do this because they are unwilling to play those roles that demand a total dismantling of who they are as people. This says nothing about their community, it just means they play a harder game. The bridge builders are no different that those with worn shoes; they just lack what they can never get back, the experience of failure time and time again. LLc 98.2

sparks

Take a serious and deep look around you and think about what you see. Think about what you watch on television and what kind of movies you see. Think about all the things you see each day but never think about. Think how these things affect your life choices and thought processes. Use your imagination to determine where you will be in five years. Once that is done, think about what you watched then and compare it to what you watch now. LLc 98.2

We have ideas about what it means to be successful. These ideas come from available sources and reference points all of which are representative of different people, different times, and different places in time and space. All we know is what we hear or read about other people and their meaning of success. I am just not convinced yet that one person's meaning of success coincides with mine. LLc 98.2