“That’s Just Their Way”
So it’s not in my nature to be outgoing. It’s somewhat ironic that I have said this twice in two days.
But it’s important to look at your nature and change whatever it is that makes you not do the right thing.
I’m growing increasingly aware that many parts of my nature suck, and this might not be the best way to be. Some aspects I can change, others I can’t and those are the ones I hide behind when I’m just plane not willing to change.
People who do the wrong thing are too often defended by well-wishers who agree with you while trying to reassure you by saying: ”That’s just their way.”
Bollocks. They should fucking change. They are making themselves and others unhappy.
“That’s just their way.”
Way shmay. And it’s not their way - it’s our way.
When people make others miserable, late, ill or whatever, it’s not just their nature, it’s their deliberate effect on the world and that becomes our way.
Change.
Same goes for people who have completely replaced the friendly goodbye with “I’ve got my phone if you need me”, or the guy who nearly drove into me this weekend at eighty miles an hour on the M25 because he was talking to his passenger while pointing something out on his sat nav.
Change.
If you’re making yourself unhappy while the world around you becomes a worse place, you have to change.
And don’t say you can’t if you want to because nothing lasts forever. The nature you’re hiding behind is as imperment as this blog or the eyes you are reading it with.
Thanks to everyone for the kind thoughts yesterday about the two year bloggiversary. I’m going to pour myself a whisky and contemplate this site entering the “terrible twos” - the difficult toddler stage of learning, complete with tantrums and bruises.
Blogmandu spotted yesterday’s blogday post and gave me a shout in their weekly roundup. Actually, it’s more of a bellow than a shout, because what they said was incredibly nice. You can read it whether it’s your way or not, in a section at the bottom of this week’s entry.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Om padme mani hum
Jai guru deva om
Om
October 9th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind
inside a letter box they tumble blindly
as they make their way
Across The Universe
Al Gore didn’t invent the internet,John Lennon did!
October 9th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Cheers Ed - at the risk of sounding ungrateful, it’s “om mani padme hum”
But you know me, no one on earth would enjoy a Sanskrit spoonerism more than me.
Hail the lewel in the jotus to you, too.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Ah, but were you happy being described as a “prom king”?
October 9th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Who’s the lewel? What’s the jotus? Why am I compelled to add,’…way down yonder in the paw-paw patch!’?
I was just trying to let my muddled inner buddhist out while pointing out that John Lennon described the Internet perfectly in ‘Across the Universe’. Think about that!
October 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
The prom king thing? I think it is swell.
Om mani padme hum means, roughly, Hail the jewel in the lotus.
Let it out dude. Bust that shit out.
October 9th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Is THAT what that means? What’s ‘jai guru deva om’ mean?
I suppose I shoudl look it up.
My inner muddle buddhist is still a biut too muddled to be released, it would be like letting Syd Barrett out loose again on his own. He might do OK, but then again he might not.
I often use the ‘Om’ mantra as a way to equalize my inner tensions, but it;s not spiritual with me, it’s physical- the round ‘o’ and the slow closing of the mouth to the ‘m’ create a resonant buzz within my body that seems to reduce muscular ( or in my case, fat ) tension. No spirit there, but a holdover from a layover in the Salt Lake Airport in February 1980, when the last Hare Krishna I saw in an Airport anywhere gave me a few books to read.
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