Sometimes all we need as individual people is an ear to listen and eyes to see. Feelings of being alone or overwhelmed can be debilitating to certain kinds of people. It is hard sometimes just to get someone to listen, someone to just be there for the short and long term. We should all be so lucky as to have a friend like that. Since I have no friends like that, I choose to be that friend for someone else and at least one other person.

I see people living a lie and I look in awe and wonder. I wonder how they can get themselves together every morning (preparation for role-play) just to go to their place of employment (another role to play) of which 75% of American's can't even stand. They do it because they have to do it. They do it because bills have to be paid. Without that job, without that preparation in the morning, without role-play, there is no money for no roof or car or clothes of fun or anything. It is something many people must do in order to maintain some sort of sanity. It's like you have to be insane to maintain your own personal sanity.

Self image is everything. Watch enough television and you will start to question your own self worth. This is the design of media, all media. Identify "a" problem and offer up a solution. You may not even have a problem... with anything. But you watch enough media to know that something has to be wrong. So something becomes wrong and a remedy is needed. Good thing there are so many remedies.

In our lives today there is no more destructive force than television. Through television we get to see problems created and solved with advertising. We get to see murder and marriages, juggling clowns and magicians. We get to be divided politically as we understand ourselves less and less in a world where there is always more and more. .

We have so many selves that it is sometimes difficult to choose which self to use in certain situations. For example, there is a self in us that we never show anybody and there is a self that only our friends see. There is a self in us only our parents see, but not our friends. However, there is one self that is uniquely our own. It is the self that only we see and know. It is the center of our existence. It is who we really are. It takes courage to show that side of us to anyone. But when we do, it is a form of art that everyone will recognize.

If there is one thing that binds us humans together it is the fact that each one of us has doubt about ourselves in some subjective way. For one reason or the other we get hit with doubt usually at the most inopportune times. Like a baseball player striking out or a bowler getting a 7-10 split. If it happens once, doubt says that it can happen again. Overcoming doubt means that success is possible. It means that humanity has a chance to better itself. We all have that chance.

People talk down on philosophy for many reasons. But the most common reason is that they believe that thinking is the opposite of doing. That sitting around talking about life and the order of things is fine, but there ain't no money in it. Certainly it is an exercise in imagination when people engage in the "heavy" topics. However, those who believe that talking philosophy is a waste of time, that having a philosophical frame of mind is somehow damaging to the human soul, actually embrace the idea of having no philosophy. Having no philosophy is having a philosophy. It is the philosophy of nothing.