LET'S TELL IT HOW IT IS... ?

What does the word 'compelled' mean to you?

For me, 'compelled' means having to do something that I feel is so right within the limits of my own judgement, and my world, that therefore, I ultimately feel I have no other option other than to reveal such... one way, or another?!

DOCTOR ALWAYS KNOWS BEST...

Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper once said:

"If we learn to balance excellence in work with excellence in play, fun, and relaxation, our lives become happier, healthier, and a great deal more creative".

... but what if you're not of an excellent standard to begin with?!

HOW TRUE DO YOU BELIEVE THIS SAYING IS?

"If we respect ourselves, others will respond accordingly by respecting us"

DOES THIS SENTENCE MEAN YOU ARE NOT THINKING INDEPENDENTLY?

"You trust your own experience: you don’t need numbers or generalisations to back you up".

According to a paper by a Counselling Group, and I quote... this sentence may seem like you are thinking independently, but in fact, it’s very likely that you’ve interpreted your experience in line with unexamined conventions.

I personally think this is a very misleading piece of text, and not remotely helpful in any way to anyone, because there are just too many ways of viewing the context.

1)
If you are confident on your subject matter then surely you would already know the ‘numbers and generalisations’. So by trusting your own experience does this not mean you must be confident in your understanding of the subject matter to begin with?

… you’ve interpreted your experience in line with unexamined conventions.

2)
Interpret means to understand, or make sense of something doesn’t it? So why would you attempt to trust you own experience with something you did not understand, or that did make sense to you in the first place?

3)
Unexamined means you’ve not examined your subject, so how would you be confident enough to even try and pretend otherwise, and my understanding of conventions within this particularly text is I can only assume relates to a set of generally accepted standards.

In my experience I often find that those in the business of trying to help others with their problems etc, always try to impose the opposite meaning to anything: in other words they turn everything around. I don’t really see how this ever really simplifies a problem, but I can definitely see how it nearly always manges to complicate one!

Or maybe it‘s just me being wickedly narcissistic!


I'd be really interested to see what anyone else thinks ; - )

WHY DON'T CATS SUFFER FROM INSOMNIA?

My beautiful cat Ellie McNelly... doing what she does best!

REAL OR NOT?

If the opposite of fantasy is reality, can we really say for certain that fantasy is unreal? If so this would imply that it does not exist.

So now tell me... do you know of anyone who has never had a fantasy?

SIGN POST MADNESS!

Even more worrying if you have a red car!

Good to see someone has a dry sense of humour!

I wonder which disciple was the chosen one?!

WHAT'S THE MEANING?

I read this quote today by T. S. Eliot:

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"

And well... it got me intrigued, which isn’t hard I suppose considering I'm Gemini! But I couldn't help but think how wonderfully simple, and yet complex these few words truly are, and indeed just how far reaching the meaning of these seemingly plain words can actually be for so many people, in so many circumstances, and in so many ways.

The way any one individual may chose to interrupt such a quote is directly down to their own conscious sphere of translation accordingly, and so of course this can be in a good, or bad way.

So are ‘quotes’ just another way of proposing an open question… can there never be a right, or wrong answer, if no-one can all agree at the same time on a definite and final conclusion?

If you have any thoughts and feelings about my deliberating and pondering moment, please post me your comments ; - )