Water of care

Caring about children is like watering plants: too little makes them dry, too much makes them rotten.

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Questions and answers

An answer puts everything in its proper place, but in a question those proper places are still uncertain and prone to change. An illusion of freedom.

Life choices

How many times, when I regretted not doing something, I wished so badly to be able to replay the situation or to get a similar chance. 

But on thinking again, could I have really done anything differently under those past circumstances?

And being completely frank, would I really do anything so much differently if I was faced with a similar situation these days?

Well, maybe.

At least, I hope so.

Understanding art

Columbo: Could you explain this? 

Francine: Well you see, we don't explain art, I mean, that's just sort of something you feel. You see, you look at a picture or a piece of sculpture and that either does something for you or it doesn't, you know.

from Columbo, S4E5 Playback
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Beauty of people

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Spiders

"Eyes of Jumping spider - Marpissa radiata" by Lukas Jonaitis licensed under CC BY 2.0



"Dew on a spider's web in the morning" by Luc Viatour licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Just a saying

What we can't cure, we must endure.

Becoming an adult

Children consume and have no responsibility for what they do.

Adults create and have responsibility for their actions.

Being an adult may be more challenging (and indeed many adults would like to keep a child-like lifestyle), but eventually, it's much more satisfying and empowering.

Ruling your Universe

Each of us is ruling their own little Universe. Many things are possible and doable in your own Universe, as long as they don't violate other people's Universes.

Ulysses and the Sirens

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Where there's a will...

Those who want find opportunities.

Those who don't want find excuses.

Teaching yourself

Our responsibility as adults is to teach ourselves what we weren't taught as children, and to give ourselves all the love, respect, care, and consideration that we weren't given as children.

Forever learning

Those who insist they have nothing more to learn are the ones who need to learn the most.

Love

Loved ones come in many shapes and sizes, but love comes in only one - Universal.

Regret

It's better to do something and regret it later than to do nothing and regret it all my life.

Gracefulness

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

~ George Will

Photo: "Jack of Hearts II" by Cat Mapper (Max Ogden), licensed under CC0 1.0

Centralization limitations

• 1 head vs 7 billion heads
• framework vs freedom
• one-size-fits-all vs individualized needs
• tried and proven vs trial and error => few new solutions

Appreciating old age

Many people are blessed with being young. But not all of them will be blessed with being old.

Being someone's number one

As years go by, and people grow networks of closeness around them, it becomes more and more important to have those with you for whom you will be number one priority, no matter what happens.

Cats and fish

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape,
then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

~ Doris Lessing

Photo from Unsplash by Stainless Images

Gazing into the eyes of another living being

Magic of the winter night

The earth is wrapped in fallen snow, with silence all around.
It's not the snowflakes but my dreams keep falling on the ground.

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Zhang Daoling riding a tiger

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Freedom of happiness

My happiness won't be the same as other people's happiness. 

I let myself be happy my way and others be happy their way.

Regulating food

Food is not entertainment. Food is a pressing need. When it isn't, there's no need to eat.

Kulning - Ancient Swedish herdingcall

The echoing hallway

Foggy mind is like an echoing hallway: past events and past thoughts keep echoing in it again and again, sometimes reinforced by new events and new thoughts.

Clear mind is like an open field: events and thoughts happen once and then disappear like a sound in the vastness of the air, without any trace.