Tag: choices
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Cake and Iced Tea
I woke up late because I stayed up late. I’m still tired. But I joked to Stephanie that this was like shooting myself in the foot and then complaining that my foot hurts. I’m awake and have eaten a little so far. Cake and iced tea for breakfast. I need to make better choices if…
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Struggle and Gratitude
I have been saying “The struggle is real but so is the gratitude” a lot lately. It is my own phrase though in the end it will probably be misattributed to Aristotle or Confucius. But I’ll spell out what it means to me right now in this moment. The word struggle is deeply tied to…
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Choices We Can Make
I am a believer in the concept of moral agency. This is primarily a religious view. The freedom to choose is baked pretty deeply into Mormonism. But another secondary reason it that it seems counterintuitive at best that humans would have evolved a sense that we have freewill if it were only an illusion. That…
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Where are my Weirdos?
It’s been three days of “Trump is going to be the president again.” Some of you are ecstatic I’m sure and some of you are hurting. But if you have been sticking with me for a while then you know I will try to be awesome no matter who the president is. He does not…
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Desire for a Legacy
What is the legacy you want to leave behind? I have a granddaughter. I love that I helped her father to be a father. I would like more grandchildren. That is the legacy that I very much want to leave. I have a spiritual life that I think will be valuable to the world. I…
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Sacrifices or Transactions?
What sacrifices have you made in life? I don’t have many regrets about the choices I’ve made in life. Any opportunity has a cost of all the other things that I cannot do. All those possible futures have been sacrificed at the moment of those choices. But those choices are very often transactional with me.…
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What We Choose Is What We Become
Do you believe in fate/destiny? I believe that the choices we make shape our destiny. We cannot go back and change the past so the choices we have already made are part of that destiny. Sickness, old age, and death are unavoidable. Those are part of the destiny of every human being. But we each…
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Mellow
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? I was a very high strung little boy. My uncle nicknamed me Fred Smith because I reminded him of Federal Express. As I got older I learned to focus my nervous energy and got into choirs and theater. It was…
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The Choices We Make
What could you do differently? On a plane to Germany when I was 17 I was listening to a motivational speaker through the onboard headsets. He talked about being in traffic behind another car and the car had what will sound like a rather mundane bumper sticker. The sticker read, “I’d rather be golfing.” The…
Latter Day Sinner 