So, whether I have ADHD I don’t know kind of like the whole depression thing again I don’t know I’m not going to be one of those people where oh that’s totally this or it’s definitive, I’m positive though it could just be having a bad week. It could just be a hanging glum I can’t remove myself from, could just be not having had enough food or water. I don’t know I really don’t.
Personally I don’t think that’s a problem as I stated last night or morning, whenever it was that the whole of the post is created. And why one may ask, it’s due to thinking we’re not meant to know everything due to the fact that if we did what would be the point. What would be the point for children to grow if they had nothing to discover on their own. I remember discovering things even now I remember the first time I read Harry Potter, and I’m not complimenting the f****** writer I’ll straight up say that, I am complimenting what it meant for us as kids to open up that book and get enveloped into a world that completely removed all the nonsense we as kids were dealing with. Straight up I am not supportive of Rowling, I completely am still behooved with her behavior especially due to the fact of all the people that found themselves through her damned writing and then for her to go and pull the crap she did was completely unfair to the readers. It was more than just a slap to the readers.
Whoa, sorry, but that’s what I’m getting at in this post today, it’s the motivations and the people we meet and that inspire us that change how we think and how we perceive the world. So I bring two quotes of the Stoics
“To bear trial with a calm mind “robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” –Seneca
Life is chaos, though there are moments of the calm and quiet nature in ourselves and the world around us, it’s ravaged and gobbled up with in a moment upon noticing that of the silence that we recognize…and then that whirlwind comes. Personally I’ve had my weight of issues, of chaos and honestly I wish I had found this quote sooner. Not that I would have listened to the heeding of Seneca. We get comfortable with the typical monotony don’t we? But I feel that the more we grow, the more we learn, it tends to leave a residual essence of how we should act and how we affect the others when we can’t keep calm. And I feel that is what Seneca is getting at.
When we’re faced with the adversities, that you know life likes to throw, it is in us to be prepared and not just be prepared but to take it calmly, to be peaceful and aware of how we act. It’s in us to how we create our emotional control during these times and the words that we use while that’s happening. As it is words have an amazing and terrifying way of affecting so much more than we think, look at the world now, look at the chaos that we’re seeing on the news. It’s brutal and it’s overly egregious which brings my call for being mindful and I definitely do agree with Seneca on this. We are to be at peace when adversity addresses us, how we act and how we create our response is the telling of who we can be and what we’re going to become.
“It is not so much our friends’ help us, as the confidence of their help ” –Epicurus
My friends were Bradbury, Vonnegut, Harry Potter, the Hobbits, and Dream from Neil Gaiman’s works. There was also King, Jackson, and a myriad of others. They were what helped provide the courage to speak, a tapestry to learn what’s good and evil and how to tell the difference, as well as it giving me the inspiration to truly become me.
Meaning if there is anything I can do it will be to help or use the right words that one person finds to inspire them and help them become who they are. That’s why I am a writer, that’s why I’m an artist, and that’s why I put my son and my wife front and center, I’ve made mistakes but as I stated before, we have a choice, do we take the negative or do we choose the positive? It’s on each of us and I take each day with new light and an intentional want to be the best I can be for myself and those I may touch through art and the words left here.
So I leave with a song
‘Hope For Now’ – City and Colour
Good morning and good night, good night and good morning.
Nosce Te Ipsum
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