Friday, January 28, 2011

L.R.O.I....

Low Return On Investment

that's how i describe my current family life.

i get angry sometimes, but the reality is likely i have/had unrealistic expectations. my current situation is a reflection of my questionable decision making.

meeting a chick at a busted strip club & working to create a relationship w/her is an unusual enough idea. factor in she's a high school dropout, has a baby w/questionable paternity, is an incest survivor, etc. & you have a person that most cats would have run away from at top speed.

not me.

i thought i could help. i thought being supportive & loving would make a + difference. over a decade later i'm left w/a particular emptiness & the responsibility of caring for the fresh human that resulted from this apparently handicapped relationship. it seems that AVD plays a role in this situation as well. what comes off as selfishness, uncommunicativeness, & insensitivity is very likely AVD manifesting itself. it might not be so bad if there wasn't such a history of repetitive deceit & infidelity. being taken from w/o being given to creates a very distinct drain on the psyche.

distractions...

i suppose i have little reason to have any confidence in my family relations. how inspiring...

make like having shitty family relations is encouraging...

PEACE
...be calm...

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

ever moving forward...

requiring frequent + stimulation is quite a tedious task. it has to be done responsibly. - stimulation leads to too much collateral damage. how is + stimulation maintained in an environment that is not exactly + energetically? my new motto is becoming "i am in trouble." i suppose that's not the most + outlook though. my variable attention span can be quite problematic within this context. the damage done up until the discovery of this state of my finite being has been relatively significant.

damage reveals itself in various forms from current/past behaviors/actions. more recently i've been eating too much outside prepared food. this is an expensive activity. i am definitely not in a position to make a habit of it. i have to start cooking for self again. the family meals have been problematic lately. i actually enjoy cooking, but the kitchen issues w/my current environment obscure much of the pleasure of the experience. pulling dirty dishes out of their storage areas tends to remove the enthusiasm of the preparation process.

i'm hungry as i write this, but the food that i've eaten from family meals has not been tasty. sometimes the food is over/under done, or it just does not look/taste appealing. it's rather discouraging, but eating out is not a viable solution...

i have much to do. moving forward w/o inflicting further damage is key. what  a challenge. i have to keep telling self that it can be done. if i do not, "i am in trouble..."

make like all is under control in the finite realm...

PEACE
...be calm...

Saturday, January 22, 2011

source of + energy...

what can i say?

what can i do?

apparently i have not done so well in establishing an environment that is progress friendly for my finite self. this is not a recent development. this has been a situation that i have had to deal w/my entire finite existence thus far. i have struggled consistently w/it since assuming responsibility for my finite navigations. my original care providers were not exactly the best models.

i continue to work toward improving the nature & means of travel, but i seem only to be successful in expanding my consciousness. my efforts to convert said consciousness into a form that promotes more satisfactory forward progress have yet to produce long-term successes. it would be the utmost of understatements to suggest that i am frustrated. i feel i am beyond frustration.

my family is not even a source of + energy for me. if your family is a source of frustration, what happens next? i don't even find peace in spending time w/the godren. it would seem that the person i chose to introduce into my life as a partner is not quite able to be one. no peace there either. i have to create my own peace. this is something i find increasingly difficult. my distractibility & the disruptive nature of my current environment are not great partners.

i had thought that things could be worked out. it often appears that said partner functions in such a way as to not work things out. the repetitive nature of the issues over a 10+ year period makes it quite difficult to continue to suggest that things will improve to the extent needed. i would be horribly mistaken to state that nothing has changed, but certain things that needed to change a while ago do not appear to be changing.

it is difficult to maintain when you have no one to trust & be self with. my distractibility being as it is i feel i need to be in a solitary state, but i do not like the idea of extended isolation. isolation isn't a natural social state for humans. no matter how distractible i am, i can't see how it would be good for me.

the only real + energies for me lately are my light oriented thought(s) & creativity. apparently the strengths of my finite being are concentrated in these areas. these are the areas where the infinite & finite connect most regularly. i have to work this to my benefit. i have to create to live. if i do not work through & beyond my frustrations w/being, there is the danger of tormenting self to darkness. darkness is that place next to actively pursuing termination of self. this is not ok. this is becoming a daily battle. sometimes i grow tired of fighting it...

my challenge is distinct. what to do w/my finite self. the distractions & my interaction w/them are the only hell that exists in my finite reality.

make like navigating the finite is simplistic...

PEACE
...be calm...

Sunday, January 16, 2011

the great hustle...

how is it that humans seem so easily manipulated by the fear of the unknown?

my comprehension of the answer to the above does not remove my distaste for the hustlers of religious faith(s).

i caught the tail end of a Todd Coontz infomercial earlier today. i'm not so much disturbed as i am amazed that humans facilitate the hustle of cats like this.

fear is a powerful motivator. humans truly fear the unknown. this fear is about as universal among humans as the universe itself is to reality.

the thing that saddens/bugs me is that it is extremely difficult to get those who are caught up by these types of hustles to realize that it's a scam.

it isn't even just w/religion(s). there are a few well established social institutions that humans would seem literally to be willing to kill/die to defend. i suppose it's like trying to get an eyeless human to visually acknowledge the sun.

the power to manipulate human perception is far too often abused by those who do not have the interest of the greater common good in mind...

make like the unknown is gleefully embraced...

PEACE
...be calm...

Monday, December 20, 2010

returning from the travels...

i was thinking as i woke today about how knowledge is still kept from the average human in today's society. in many senses, ignorance has been institutionalized. there appears to be a great deal of profit to be made from the perpetuation of human ignorance.

education is supposed to be important. funding education doesn't seem to be as important.

even w/the consideration of education being important, it can be observed that most educational goals are shaped around career training. education as the accumulation of universal knowledge seems rarely encouraged & seldom valued.

what career options are made available to those who study universal knowledge? what social status is rendered to those who develop ideas that cannot necessarily be turned into some kind of commodity?

how valuable is knowledge of being? how dangerous is knowledge of the truth? how sure can a human be of the truth when finite perception is limited? w/o some comprehension of the truth of the universe, it is difficult to even consider such questions & their associated issues.

why do i even bother thinking about such things when their consideration does not help me feed or support self & family?

make like knowledge is even remotely finite...

PEACE
...be calm...

Friday, December 17, 2010

swimming in the pull...

it sometimes seems like my infinite consciousness & my finite being are moving in opposite directions.

as i grow older & absorb more knowledge, i am better able to comprehend certain aspects of finite existence. i am able to see certain aspects of the human condition from a clearer perspective.

it can be quite frustrating because these realizations appear to be so simple to me. if i was not completely aware of the inability of the next human to perceive as i do, i would likely overly concern self w/why human society seems so stubbornly ignorant of certain human flaws.

the role of violence in human history is a great example. for thousands of years humans have persisted to address/resolve conflict w/the threat &/or use of violence. no matter how advanced human civilization seems to get, the idea of violent conflict resolution is still considered a viable option. the fact that advances in technology have only lead to more massively destructive tools for war speaks directly to this persistent flaw.

unlike many ethnically conscious humans, i do not ascribe this tendency to the prevalence of European influenced society. even a cursory study of human history outside of commonly Eurocentric presentations will reveal that humans have long been plagued by the use of violent conflict resolution. if general ethnic distinctions are made within the human family, the major groups of humans would appear to be African, Asian, American, & European. it seems reasonable to assert here that any other ethnic groupings of the human family extend from mixtures of these groups. even after making such distinctions, it cannot be said w/honesty that European expansionism introduced violent conflict to the various ethnic groupings of humans across the planet.

each major ethnic grouping would appear to have had a period in human history where its culture thrived. we currently find ourselves in a Eurocentric period. the ideas of expansionism associated w/this period would seem to reflect the unavailability of certain resources in the geographic region of the European human. many of the resources that have been considered valuable over the last few thousand years are readily found in the areas of the planet that have increasingly suffered from European expansionism. this is not likely a coincidence.

the prevalence of violence, the introduction of abstract monetary systems, the maintenance of fear inducing social institutions, & other similar social constructs all help to perpetuate expansionist ideas & activities. what better way to acquire & control that which you desire when you have nothing of considerable value to offer in return? if you attempt to trade & are told you have to offer something of similar or greater value, what are you to do when you have little or nothing that fits that description? clearly this type of situation would consistently create human conflict. consider this in relation to the developmental history of European influenced society. Europeans did not introduce the idea of violent human conflict to the human families, however, European society has gone a long way toward advancing the concept of massively destructive conflict.

even w/all this in mind, why do humans across the board continue to embrace violence as a means of resolving conflict? when will adult humans stop acting like spoiled children? why is it taking thousands of years to realize the foolishness of violent human conflict?

now, how is it that i am readily able to consider such abstract concepts, but i consistently struggle w/the everyday issues of my finite existence? in my estimation this is the nature of my gap. AVD is a distinct manifestation of this gap. the frustration is powerful. whatever issues i have as an individual do not negate the considerations above. are my perceptive abilities really so unique that other humans are unable to make such connections? i don't think this so.

what is the problem then?

perhaps if more humans were aware of the true nature of god, some of these issues would be better addressed. would revealing the truth of universal consciousness liberate the human condition, or would it imprison it by further fueling the ignorance of human conceit? it would seem to be a better idea to err on the side of knowledge instead of ignorance. make the truth known, allow the collective consciousness to thrive, & whatever issues remain can be addressed by the collective consciousness.

make like god does not help those...

PEACE
...be calm...

Thursday, December 16, 2010

the question of an owl...

for many years i have considered self a nocturnal creature. my comprehension of AVD gives me reason to believe this is yet another aspect of my finite existence that is shaped by the aforementioned.

why?

most directly, there are few other humans up during the hours that i find most pleasurable to move about. it is quieter. there are significantly less distractions. i am far more functional in such an environment. i am able to sustain linear thought patterns for far longer when undisturbed by various other randomly occurring stimuli.

the problem w/trying to live this way permanently is that it negates 1 of the more important environmental needs of those w/AVD: human fellowship.

there aren't a great many other humans that keep such hours. when i no longer desire to be left undisturbed, it is quite difficult to find any solidly + human interaction during nocturnal maneuverings.

focus & balance...

i am far more peaceful & settled when i am able to move along w/o being jostled about & overstimulated...

god lives to further comprehend the specifics of my gap management...

make like easy is the way of the truth...

PEACE
...be calm...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

who built this...

me?

yup...

so, based on my studies of AVD, it would appear that i have succeeded in creating & maintaining an environment that is not conducive to the pursuit of my life's goals.

how's that?
  • too many distractions
  • not enough support
  • way too little + human interaction
  • too few + &/or creative outlets
in addition i've apparently taken a very counter intuitive approach to pursuing my career goals over the entire span of my legal adult life.

imagine that...

i suppose it ought to be mentioned that my choice of relationship(s) has not been representative of what my studies suggest would be best.

what a fuckin' combination!

so, what's next?

how the fuck would i know?

actually i do have some idea. w/o question i have to keep working on these issues. unfortunately, i need help that either does not exist, i cannot reasonably afford, or just isn't likely to be available to someone my age. it is what it is. there is some help available. i'm going to have to do what i can w/what is available.

the knowledge that i've gathered over the years would seem to be far more helpful in these circumstances. the nature of my AVD issues quite often prevents this from being the case. at least i know this. i have to retrain myself. i have to find a way to get through the down times which tend to be a major side effect from my inability to avoid the distractions that foul me up.

such is my existence. this is the foundation of my finite challenge.

it's so magical!

DOH!

make like personal issues change the nature of universal reality...

PEACE
...be calm...

Monday, November 29, 2010

a state of constant distraction...

thanks to the writings of Drs. Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey, it would appear that my comprehension of what i will refer to as Attention Variability Disorder/Trait (AVD/T) is becoming more concrete.

the unusual nature of my thought process, universal perception, & the voracity of my imagination are all related to this neurobiological condition.

i'm apparently able to compile & recall large amounts of information, but i can sometimes have a rather difficult time organizing said information into consistently constructive patterns over extended periods of time.

short version: i have difficulty w/ignoring distractions...

it is quite frustrating to me because i know that i am intelligent. apparently many people who deal w/AVD have a difficult time w/their self-esteem. this is especially true w/regard to their intellectual abilities. i do not seem to have this specific issue, but i am rather troubled by the various other issues that i have experienced & continue to experience as a result of AVD.

my task at this point is to redirect my facilities in such a way as to efficiently manage the - aspects of my AVD while aggressively promoting the + aspects. this is not an easy task. it is even more difficult considering that up until this year i had no idea that i even had this issue. my life up to this point has essentially been me leading myself into a lion's den, covered in blood, while sounding a claxon. not a pretty situation. so far, i am still alive & have all my limbs!

i currently live in an environment that is counterproductive to my achievement of progress. it is highly likely that i require daily/weekly coaching, but as a result of my career meanderings, this is not financially feasible. in fact, my entire life at this point in time is not financially feasible. as people w/AVD tend to create piles of unmanageability, i have done so literally & figuratively. not only do i not seem to be able to financially care for self, i have made myself responsible for a family.

ouch!

w/all that i still hold my comprehension of the universe the same. i am still god. the problem is that i have thoroughly disconnected self. god is not singular as most seem to think. collective functioning is at the heart of human society. the idea that individuals are the core of human functioning does not reflect the universal nature of reality. as god it is not a me, but a we existence. in the case of humans like myself w/AVD, it is apparently even more relevant that the collective nature of being be emphasized.

as a collective consciousness, the finite beings that we exist as physically can compensate more for our individual gaps. the more we bridge the gap, the more we approach our universal nature. it is in our best interest overall to function as close as we can to the infinite nature of the universe.

how is it that i am able to see this so clearly? i cannot honestly answer this question. it disturbs me as much as the fact that i don't seem able to properly manage my finite course of business on a day to day basis. interestingly enough, the unusual nature of my thought process as a result of having AVD/T is most likely the source of this universal clarity. i suppose it would be quite easy for those who did not have my best interests in mind to make me out to be some kind of loon. i might even agree w/such people.

i know what i know. what i do not know requires patience & attention. 2 things that people w/AVD do not usually do well in maintaining...

the struggle continues...

make like i never have difficulty w/anything...

PEACE
...be calm...

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

the gap widens...

at times i swear i'm becoming less adept at managing this finite existence.

not a good thing.

being able to articulate the problem does not appear to be making that much of a difference in discovering viable solutions.

what is the good of having knowledge if it cannot be consistently put to use for positive gain?

comprehension is not useful w/o concrete action that reflects said comprehension.

make like i'm not frustrated...

PEACE
...be calm...