Personal Meditation No. 94

"Life is internal conflicts masquerading as external conflicts."

Embrace the Within.

Folks do like to say they are about freedom and rights and then they throw that conjunction in there. They throw their buts right in your face. And folks love to show their buts.

Life is about controlling you. It’s all about internal conflict. It’s about you making choices. The choices you make sometimes lead to you getting involved in external conflicts, however, external conflicts are far less important than what you learn about yourself from those conflicts. The external conflicts should impact you internally. They should help you grow. They should help you make better choices in the future. They shouldn’t keep you the same.

And that is one of the problems I see today. Folks that are just resigned to being who they are. You hear it all the time. “That’s how I was raised” or “I’ve always been like this” are just excuses for not growing. Your genetics give you a framework just like your childhood gives you a framework. You do get to choose what to do with that skeleton. You get to change the muscle tone and the outcome. You get to choose what you feed that body. You get to choose what that body learns. You get to choose.

And getting to choose for ourselves is one of the things that makes us unique. And we don’t want anyone else to run our lives BUT we have no trouble telling other people how to live their lives. It’s baffling. A bunch of free folks walking around with personal freedom that want to impose their beliefs on everyone else. Wanting to mandate folks to live how they should.

I guess it’s because we know much better how to live someone else’s life than they do. Do you think someone else should make the decisions for you? Then why are you in any better place to be making the decisions for others? We have a whole system based on a group of people knowing better than us how to live our lives and look where that has ended up? You think those folks in Washington, Annapolis, Harrisburg, Richmond, Dover, Charleston, know better than you how to live your life? Then get your BUTs out of everyone’s face. You are no better suited to take charge of anyone’s life BUT your own. So get your butt in gear owning that life and stop micromanaging everyone else’s. I’m tired of you showing your BUTs.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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