Heraclitus and me

I love history and philosophy. Learning about how people lived, made decisions, related to each other, and just in general, lived here together on this planet. For the little I know about Heraclitus, pronounced her-ə-'klī-təs, I feel a connection. I am going to find how different or the same Heraclitus and I may really be. I set myself this challenge of literary adventure.

The auto immune paralysis of everyday living

I don’t think you can go through life without some sort of paralysis. You’re a child and you grow and grow until something in you says "stop growing so fast". Just the experience of constant change is an emotionally exciting time in most people’s lives. Young adulthood has its milestones. Finding a partner, making a family, including animals, working a job. Change and more change. But still, a deceleration of the emotional excitement that comes from experiencing these things as new. Even cleaning the bathroom the first couple years in your own place isn't so bad. It's the next twenty that kill you.
Anyway, so they become farther apart. Until they are no longer propelled by stages of life itself.
You are paraylized within yourself. You must become the catalyst.

Trust Yourself

There is a book called blink by Malcolm Gladwell that talks about how people of rational thought, talk themselves out of trusting their first impressions. Well, that might be oversimplified and my impression of the book.

But, my whole life, I have told myself to trust my instincts.

And then, am not sure that I act on what I believe.

Deal with the Sorrow of Lost Dreams

Dreams - something hoped for.

This is more a statement and a question of how than a writing of any knowledge I think I have. Everyone must put some dreams to rest, at one time or another, if they are lucky enough to live a good amount of time. Dreams that are the what if’s of your life. What if I had done this or what if I had done that. Would I be in a better place in my life than I am right now? You live with your choices until you die. And maybe then some.

Empathy and the missing link

Empathy – understanding of another’s feelings
the ability to identify with and understand somebody else's feelings or difficulties


Links are made throughout our lives. I connect with you and you connect to me - a link. Repeat to infinity. That simplistic concept rules our lives down to the most complex extent. Life is connected in sometimes the oddest ways with these links and it often seems that it is the links that define the road we travel. Now enter empathy into the equation. All the links that seem obvious become, ...well, not. Empathy is the missing link between some people. It can be the defining difference that can change our lives and set those we are connected to off to different paths. If you use your empathy wisely in your life, it can be good. But if you succomb to empathy, it can become a series of "I don't want you to hurt." This is usually good if the same will be reciprocated. But what if it is not? Does the "save yourself button" get turned off? Are you always trying to save someone else of the hurt and not yourself? The reality for a person feeling empathy is that you can never save yourself the hurt. Because in thinking about any situation, even for a second, you feel the other persons feelings.

So there can only be two separate existences - that will never touch. No link .

http://www.eqi.org/empathy.htm