Tuesday, June 2, 2009

(3) Some decisions to make are precisely if to face life, pessimistically or optimistically.

Let´s define what we should understand when referring to both.

Pessimistically facing is keeping on just lamenting or denouncing the injustices without doing anything about it. It is being just part of the problem and the hoped for factor by the unjust and abusers.

They love the complaining people or as they call them, useful fools who waste their time doing just that. Or complaining as crying babies, or naively hoping that by showing tolerance and even bona fide cooperation in the minor welfare schemes the abusers set up when the waters of impatience start boiling.

Optimistically facing is not only lamenting but as the business people love to say, is to proactively do what is required, by way of example and untiringly influencing other people to do the same. The optimistic thinking behind this is that, one by one, if adamantly convinced, people will star to change, not only themselves but their surrounding areas of actions and influence.

In other words, we must optimistically do whatever is required to reach the uppermost goals of a worthy to be lived life, not only for ourselves but for the ones who cannot fight back, get away or defend themselves.

Resignation, procrastination, giving up, compromising, defending what little has been given or left for us, is what should never be accepted and what every decent human being should arise against.

In order to be able to do what is uppermost than anything else to accomplish this in the long term, is to exactly know where you are standing, in all the aspects of the life of the spirit, the mind, the emotions, as well as in the overall realm of the social interaction at all levels.

This includes the family, the friendship circles, the community, the society as a whole, but upper mostly as I said before, you!

You can go to extremes, lyrically, philosophically, emotionally, eruditely, sophisticatedly, whatever, but you cannot, unless deliberately, deceive yourself.

There is a sad, very sad, very unfortunate, very alienating circumstance that is already lasting more than anyone thought. Something that is already affecting generations and generational behaviors, probably up and beyond of what could be considered a recoverable and recuperating point!

A tragicomic and at the same time epical and superficial dichotomy! An unbelievable technological advancement, and a puerile even if astronomically tragic failure of human values, abdication of the self, immersion in what is undeniably stupid, external and mediocre.

I call it the pretending factor that is relegating the human soul and spirit to the darkest corners of reality and unreality! The real and the unreal! The valid and the twisted invalidity turn into a virtual reality and validity in all the realms of the human thinking, understanding of life, and behavioral responses.

The mediocre, the ruthless when lapidating others and themselves, disguised and hidden in the masses and the mobs, reign and isolate, and command, and abuse, and shout, and gesticulate, and convince themselves of an unacceptable, invalid, theoretical, self deceiving and egocentric rationale and pretended temporal leadership of the unthinking, unwilling, ignorant by personal decision, masses of this world.

I personally like a game that my wife and I usually play at nights, after dinner and before going to bed. The game is the RUMMYKUB game. The Fast Moving Rummy Tile Game!

In this game tiles are organized in sets of runs and groups. You combine them in many different forms to place them all on the table up to the end.

You maneuver keeping them hidden, moving them around and exchanging them with the tiles of your opponents in the game, according to the rules, until all are played and the game is won. It is an extremely exciting game!

I assimilate this game to life´s going on and its twisting events that its living tiles are made of. What tiles they could be?

In time and form! The tragicomedy of life nowadays! The tragedy of the poor and the lower! The comedy of the powerful and the upper!

You set up possibilities, alternatives and scenarios in order to play your tiles to your advantage by analyzing and anticipating the moves of your opposing partner in the game. It is easier and pleasanter that any chase game, the uppity and sophisticated game of utopian even if similarly strategized game.

You ask yourself… Is it unbearable to be isolated and rejected by the systems? What about inner peace, certitude, consistency of attitudes and values? Usefulness… uselessness… what about it? What do you really need in life? Is this whole business of living a puppeteer’s game?

NO! if we have our feet firmly planted on the earth of realities, and the eyes focused into the future, elevated to heaven for making our own the highest purposes of life, righteousness, rectitude, values, and trust and confidence in God. No!

And after everything is said, let´s be encouraged by recognizing, optimistically who we are… wayfaring strangers in this world, and…


Let´s give thanks to God because we have a home beyond the skies and rainbows.


Let´s recognize that what we are, wayfaring strangers, is not only that, a fact of life, but also the promise of a real destination of Joy, Peace and Eternal Blessings.


A wayfaring stranger!


I am a poor wayfaring stranger traveling through this world of woes. Yet there is no sickness, nor toil nor danger in that bright world to which I go.

I am going there to see my Father. I am going there, no more around. I am going only way over Jordan. I am only going over home. Oh, yes, Lord! Oh, yes, Lord! Oh, yes, Lord!

I know dark clouds will gather ´round me. I know my way is rough and steep. Yet, beauteous fields lie just before me where God´s redeemed their vigils keep.

I am going there to see my mother. She said she´d meet me when I come. I am going only way over Jordan. I am only going over home. Going home!

I am going there to see my loved ones, gone before me one by one. Oh, somebody show me the way home! I am going only way over Jordan. I am only going over home.

For the continuity of the message keep on reading down below

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