There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
It's really cool in this day and age that there are so many methods for posting to your online media platforms! Which do you choose?! You can SMS, MMS, or e-mail. Are there really only three basic routes? Of course, MMS is multi-media sending when you have stuff other than just script to send. So maybe that doesn't count as separate from SMS.
At any rate the options are multitudinous when you start considering the finer particulars of each avenue and then there are the apps for the new evolving phone/computer things we've got going called 'smart phones'! Fun in tiny packages is what I call them!
'Face Time' has taken on new meaning when 6 out of 10 (it seems!) people you meet have these little PDA/phone contraptions beeping and cooing at them whilst in the midst
of a social gathering.
Multi-dimensional experiences are taking place simultaneously as you are having face time happening in Austin (say) whilst your contacts in Beijing, California, and Denmark are getting real time status updates as you peck a one-liner while sipping your hazelnut mocha on a cafe patio. "Times, they are a changin' ". Yes they are Bob. ....Yes they are.
It's fun to be in the middle of such a quickly advancing techno time. It's fun to think, "What will our kids be using as standard device accoutrements in 10, 15, 20 years? What will those devices be capable of"? There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
At any rate the options are multitudinous when you start considering the finer particulars of each avenue and then there are the apps for the new evolving phone/computer things we've got going called 'smart phones'! Fun in tiny packages is what I call them!
'Face Time' has taken on new meaning when 6 out of 10 (it seems!) people you meet have these little PDA/phone contraptions beeping and cooing at them whilst in the midst
of a social gathering.
Multi-dimensional experiences are taking place simultaneously as you are having face time happening in Austin (say) whilst your contacts in Beijing, California, and Denmark are getting real time status updates as you peck a one-liner while sipping your hazelnut mocha on a cafe patio. "Times, they are a changin' ". Yes they are Bob. ....Yes they are.
It's fun to be in the middle of such a quickly advancing techno time. It's fun to think, "What will our kids be using as standard device accoutrements in 10, 15, 20 years? What will those devices be capable of"? There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
If you're the kind of individual that has the pattern of being in relative control of your surroundings, then parenting is, in My Honest opinion, an experience that will help to release you from that burden. If not, then you will likely need a psychologist to 'set you to rights'. Honestly, you will have to let go, either willingly or painfully. There may be 'pain' of sorts in any case.
Kids are spontaneous, and do not follow a 'procedure'. That way of living that we teach them--code of ethics, ways to interact with others, basic living principles--comes by through example. Of course they learn these things in stages as they go, as we all do. Through this, you as a parent learn So Much about yourself: your tolerance, your patience, your flexibility, your weak points, your inadequacies....mostly the weak links in your own internal chain of operations.
Parenting is very revealing. You can't fake This. The learning--Your Learning is On. Big Time. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Kids are spontaneous, and do not follow a 'procedure'. That way of living that we teach them--code of ethics, ways to interact with others, basic living principles--comes by through example. Of course they learn these things in stages as they go, as we all do. Through this, you as a parent learn So Much about yourself: your tolerance, your patience, your flexibility, your weak points, your inadequacies....mostly the weak links in your own internal chain of operations.
Parenting is very revealing. You can't fake This. The learning--Your Learning is On. Big Time. There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
Ask anyone who's been in one for 20 years or more. I think a big part of the puzzle is that Both people have to want it to work. If one gives up before the other then you aren't on equal footing. There has to be a reason to keep you committed to it, and that reason needs to be formidable. The relationship has to have a deep importance to you.
In this day and age of ADD culture it may be asking a lot of the individual to have patience and step back to take a grander view of the 'big picture', but this is exactly what is required if we are to return to the passé ideology of generations before.....and cultivate long lasting intimate relationships. Our lover/partner has to be our Best Friend. Can we find that Best Friend In our intimate partner? If we cannot or do not put forth the commensurate effort, then the clock is ticking.
Vulnerability always seems to be key to this process ( there is no escaping it), and it is a conundrum of sorts. This person, which we are challenged to allow in to our most vulnerable places then has the ability or the access to hurt us. Perhaps they have in the past and so then forgiveness becomes part of this equation of salvation. Whether or not they Have hurt us in the past, it is likely that someone has, and so it follows that Trust, Vulnerability, and Forgiveness are here together--all holding hands.
We can meet these Fellows of ours willingly and allow the Blooming of our Inner Beauty and Fulfillment to take place or we can be afraid for a Million reasons and back away and put it off for another day, another relationship, or another lifetime,.....but why? "If not you, then Who? If not now, then When?"
--a Zen saying There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.
In this day and age of ADD culture it may be asking a lot of the individual to have patience and step back to take a grander view of the 'big picture', but this is exactly what is required if we are to return to the passé ideology of generations before.....and cultivate long lasting intimate relationships. Our lover/partner has to be our Best Friend. Can we find that Best Friend In our intimate partner? If we cannot or do not put forth the commensurate effort, then the clock is ticking.
Vulnerability always seems to be key to this process ( there is no escaping it), and it is a conundrum of sorts. This person, which we are challenged to allow in to our most vulnerable places then has the ability or the access to hurt us. Perhaps they have in the past and so then forgiveness becomes part of this equation of salvation. Whether or not they Have hurt us in the past, it is likely that someone has, and so it follows that Trust, Vulnerability, and Forgiveness are here together--all holding hands.
We can meet these Fellows of ours willingly and allow the Blooming of our Inner Beauty and Fulfillment to take place or we can be afraid for a Million reasons and back away and put it off for another day, another relationship, or another lifetime,.....but why? "If not you, then Who? If not now, then When?"
--a Zen saying There is faith, hope and love, but the Greatest of these is Love.