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RE: Weekend-engagement week 67: The important week

in Weekend Experiences • 3 years ago

So, the Oracle learned how to narrow questions down for the better. And man, geez, this sounds like a test! 🤣

Let me see:

Three important things in my life. First, learning; second, making mistakes; third, stepping aside.

It's not new to say I like learning about new stuff and how to do other things. If I would stay idle, my guess is I would go crazy. Maybe out of boredom, or anxiety. Perhaps, both. I like to keep my kuckleheady walnut busy. And I know know that I'll stop learning stuff when I die. But that remains yet to be seen

About the second, I remember girls at high school crying and crying like babies when they did something wrong. And I've met a lot of people who are fixed on being perfect when they aren't. Expectations make people believe they cannot get anything wrong. So they deny themselves the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. I make a lot of them daily. When I write, oh, my... I do like 20 drafts until the stuff is done. When learning to do something, well, the count goes up. But mistakes are the chance for iteration. And on each of these one can see the progress.

Now with the weird one. So, back in one of these activities someone mentioned the ability to let petty problems solve themselves. I like this and practice it daily. From Aikido I learned that confrontation happens when needed. And for most problems, you just need to step aside. This gives you the chance to keep moving or handle the problem from another angle. In life, it's also this ability to get off you world for a moment a watch it from the outside. It's a problem-solver thingy. Very useful and necessary.

Now I realize I didn't talk about people or material stuff, but I tend to go around groups and be around some people and then not. Material things, well, they are useful but don't own me.

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 3 years ago  

Your choices are legit and suitable. I didn't necessarily mean material things when I asked the questions although know they 're important too. A wheelchair to a disabled person for instance. Your answers are just as valid and I like how you've explained the logic behind them, how they relate to you.

Gaining knowledge, (learning) and applying it will mean failure, (making mistakes) and that's a process to be valued. Stepping aside (detaching) is a nice way of seeing the big picture, of learning through gaining that arms length so one can evaluate the entire thing. So...Legit Andres. Good answer,

It was an iteration of answers. I had to pick one because there were too many choices going in my mind, but this looked like a satisfactory one. Glad you liked it, Galen.

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 3 years ago (edited) 

You did well. I'm sure there's a gazillion things you could have said, like anyone, so well done isolating a few.

Thanks for the follow also.

Man I don't get it why my followings are dropping so often. Maybe it has to do with the connection. I don't know! 😅

 3 years ago  

Lol. I know right? All good man, I know you'll always drop by. There's obviously a glitch somewhere.

HIVE doing its usual thing! 😂

 3 years ago  

Dysfunctional. Lol.

I love learning! That is a great choice. Learning is so important, always getting to know more things, figuring out what you do like and what you don't like!
I think that's maybe what saved most of us in the pandemic, picking up new skills and new hobbies to keep busy and learning, without it we would have died of boredom in our bubbles..

Indeed! A lot of learning has been going on during these harsh times. I bet online courses have made a fortune.

without it we would have died of boredom in our bubbles..

No doubt!

Oh man any service that managed to offer something online was booming I bet. I myself didn't do that many courses, but I learned how to knit! What did you learn during the pandemic?

Making bread, more woodworking, origami, excel, yoga, and there's a lot more!

Here I am, and it's not even 5 O'clock there? What's a man to do?

I don't know if I could say this but you're weird 😂 but guess what! Being weird is just so cool... Who loves to make mistakes like you? Not me but I guess I'll start loving it from now.

Stepping aside does a lot of help in some situations, I could relate to that.

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Ha, ha, ha, ha. I know how weird I am. You don't need to tell me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Stepping aside does a lot of help in some situations, I could relate to that.

I'm glad.

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I'm glad we agree on how weird you are and it's really cool like I said... Uhmm where are you going to right now, getting people out of the way.

Ha, ha, ha. Always moving and going somewhere. Usually it's a fridge assault!

😂 Keep moving then

I'm always moving! 🤣

I know too many people who have been pressured to maintain some made up image of perfection and boy did that only bring trouble and burnout. Glad it was a lesson they learned earlier on and now it is back to balance.

I couldn't agree more with the last part. I have no time or use for petty problems. I simply let them run their course but key thing for me is to not get too riled up about it.

It is necessary to stop giving ourselves such hard times for appearances and perfection when it's an unachievable thing. I'm glad you could find it out early in your life.

I couldn't agree more with the last part. I have no time or use for petty problems. I simply let them run their course but key thing for me is to not get too riled up about it.

It's a good thing to do!

It wasn't my lesson to learn lol but rather few friends. I do agree with you about the unachievable part. :)

I see. Well, it's also good that way. 😜

What a wonderful, thoughtful comment!

Good to keep the old melon current, else it'll get mealy and soft, right?

Making mistakes means I'm still in the game. When I started water skiing my mentor said "If you aren't falling, you aren't trying."

Damn straight. God knows the amount of waste in my life before I learned that I could at least stop and maybe even back up to give things time to sort out. I'm sure most of them would fit into the previously mentioned 'mistake' category.

There's still a lot to be learned and get good at those things.

Damn straight. God knows the amount of waste in my life before I learned that I could at least stop and maybe even back up to give things time to sort out. I'm sure most of them would fit into the previously mentioned 'mistake' category.

It isn't an easy thing to understand. But seems you're on the right path with it not.

I'm sure most of them would fit into the previously mentioned 'mistake' category.

I'm sure they do as now you understand that not paying attention to them is a better option.