Today we start a new decade. 10 is a nice, round number that’s easy to work with. So, with my limited math skills, I like to divide my life into decades. Sometimes I like to look back, decennium to decennium, and see how my life has changed.
And the change is always dramatic. My life circumstances 10 years ago are much different than now. And with each 10-year increment, remembering backward, I find more great differences.
The philosophies I live by are also very different. They’ve constantly and imperceptibly metamorphosed, day-after-day, to adjust to my gradually changing life. From yesterday to today, there’s not much difference. But from 10 years ago, there’s been a sea change. That doesn’t invalidate the way I guided my life a decade ago. It only means that I’ve had to change my ways, ever-so-slightly, day-to-day, to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of life.
Thus, I’ve concluded that there is no one guiding philosophy for life that can survive the test of time. We must change, and keep changing, to adjust, correct, and compensate for the viscous foundation we stand upon. As our lives change, so must our perceptions and philosophies.
It seems to me that the philosophies you and I live by today have never been used before. They may resemble philosophies of the past, but there are subtle differences. Life as we once knew it is not the life we know today, nor will it ever be again. And so we’ve had to make adjustments.
And as we progress through this new decade, we’ll have to keep adjusting.
But I wonder what drives the adjustment process. How does this miracle occur that enables us to adapt to each new, changing day? Is it inspiration from a higher source? Is it cues we receive from others? Or is it reflection, from the meditation of our own minds?
Whatever it is, be it deified, social, or innate, or perhaps all three, I believe it’s absolutely essential that we never lose touch with it. Especially if it seems to be working. For this is the source of our philosophy.
This, I believe, is our bread of life.
Happy New Year. And may the bread of life you consume this year, and this decade, be abundant and delicious.
Categories: Inspiration
Chasing Unicorns 
Very perceptive! I prefer my bread sliced which, I would suggest, makes life adjustments just a little easier?
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Perhaps that depends on how sharp your knife is.
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Not really TG as that’s the way I buy it. Of course what I put on the bread can certainly impact change in positive and negative ways. Somebody we both know (who shall remain nameless) puts “nutter fluffing butter” (or something that sounds similar) on her bread! Go figure eh?
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Nutter fluffing butter explains a lot of things, when you consider that we are what we eat. And I’ll bet she shovels it on.
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Make that 2 (who shall remain nameless) who are chalking up trouble!
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If you’re looking for a man with no name, here’s one:
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Oh yeh! “Make my day!”
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Shaking my head! You are so very “helpful”!
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…mmm…! Oh I need some coffee, but it seems to me that the year has barely begun and someone (who shall remain nameless) is already chalking up trouble on their “clean” slate.
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He’s such a bad boy. I don’t know what gets into him.
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Oooh now if that isn’t the “pot calling the kettle black!” 😄
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Sounds a little prejudiced to me. Our kettle is a metallic colour. Even our pots are metallic.
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Oh my gosh, thats …! …mmm…! Whether metallic or black, the meaning is the same. 🙂
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Really? What would be the meaning of a metallic pot calling a metallic kettle … metallic. Rather obvious wouldn’t you think?
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“No comment.”…. i am probably safer that way!
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Carolyn must be eating that nutter fudder stuff. Now you could say that a pot has a lot of mettle, but one pot calling the other metallic just isn’t cool.
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Isn’t it hot to be cool? Have to remember TG that, based on a Comment she made on an earlier Post, she is sharing a brain with her sister! That has to be awkward ,,, and hot … and perhaps even cool?
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She’s sharing a brain with her sister? Her poor sister. I think I know who’s getting the worst end of the deal.
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…mmm….! I see its happening again, where I think I have seen all the comments and then find I missed a couple so “important” ones! I would explain about the “sharing a brain” comment that I made to my sister, but I don’t think it would help, for you guys are already on a downhill roll and rolling really fast to a hole!
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… and a dreamer! Oh well TG, she is amusing eh!
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“Haha!” you just keep that in mind, the “amusing” part that is.
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She’s better than the 3 stooges.
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Oooh the “3 stooges” that I know are alot crazier!!
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Oh I think not.
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Well you thinketh wrong! Sorry!
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Who’s sorry? I’m not the one who “thinketh” in King James version.
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Well whether you think or thinketh you still are wrong! 🙂
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Hmmph.
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Hmmpheth!
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Well please throw a shovel in after us.
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No problem, you all better duck so it doesn’t hit your heads!
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Too late. Poor Colin.
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LOL! Well you never know the gentle hit may have got those marbles rolling the rigjt direction. 🙂
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Which direction is rigjt? Does Karen have the spelling part of the shared brain as well as the logical/analytical side?
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This might depend on which side of their heads these Siamese twins are joined at.
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Cannot agree with you there TG. Based on the performance so far, I have no doubt that sister got the analytical, logical cells. Our friend here got the impulsive/don’t check anything/wing-it cells!
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LOL, though I don’t want to! Shaking my head thinking you all must have chugged down a full bottle of extra wit to start this year off! But thats OK, no worries my friends, for the year has only begun! You do remember the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, correct? How the Hare was ahead in the race but .. 😉
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So you now have a tortoise brain as well?
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Nooo….thats not what I was saying!
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Ask your sister what you were saying. She’s the one with the logic cells.
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…mmmm…!! I don’t need to ask, I am pretty confident that you 2 stooges can figure out the meaning. 🙂
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Wow, all words spelled correctly in this comment. Did you get help from your sister?
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“Very funny!” No, she is no help! She just sits back and smiles!
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Perhaps our friend should be consulting with her sister before she posts anything.
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…mmm…!!
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Oooh you didn’t ask that!! I see how this day begins ,with …smacking my head!
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I see you still can’t spell “fluffer nuttter” right! Some people are so hard to teach!
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Looks like your “nuttter” has three “t’s” in it! Yup … serious credibility issue here. The fluffing nutter stuff has gone to her part of the shared brain I think.
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Ooooh … you aren’t going to forget that “shared brain” comment I made, anytime soon, are you! The extra T was the computer’s fault,! And its not “Fluffing” its “Fluffer!” 🙂
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Yeh … yeh … yeh … whattttevvver!
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And the “W” word has made a comeback with extra “T”s and ‘v’s” and “e”s”!
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Extra “eeee’s”! Where were they?
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Oh my gosh…well….lets just forget that I said that! ☺️
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Agreeeeeeed. 🙂
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My poor piece of brand new chalk is already looking quite worn from chalking up things on the slates of those who shall remain nameless. 🙂
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Oh, we’re just t’s eeeeing you.
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“haha!” You know how many times today, I have tried not to laugh while making a face at the same time at the words on the screen. It can be challenging!
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You must not laugh. That would be poor decorum.
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Maybe they were hanging out with her t’s.
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I heard she likes tea, but this is ridiculous.
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Yes, you are right! I lost count on how many times I have “smacked my head…”
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Oops. So nuttter is spelled with three t’s?
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We have a black frying pan, but our kettle is aluminum, and our pots are stainless steel with copper beneath them. They’re simmering after hearing that expression. Even the frying pan is burning hot. This is a touchy issue for them. But I wouldn’t touch them for very long.
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…smacking my head…!
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Just to help out some apparently confused , crazy, nutty, people….it is “fluffer nutter”, at least thats what I always heard!
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Oh well, fluffer nutter. Now that changes everything.
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Well of course it does. Trying to teach you both correct English. 🙂
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Someone is awake this morning. Very good insights to think about!As for what drives our adjustment process, I agree that its a combination of all three, and yes you are wise, we should never lose touch with all three. As long as we do that then we are starting the year off on the right foot! And now to help me start today off well I need coffee, being that some people were awake to watch the New Year come in! 🙂
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Thank you. And please listen to your inner voice very carefully. I’m sure it’s whispering, “Coffee is poison.”
I stayed up until 12:00 AM EST, and watched the ball drop and everything. And I also got a good night’s sleep. Still, naps are always welcome.
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Sorry! I think that inner voice got muffled.
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It probably drowned in a cup of coffee.
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I think change is eternal. And sort of a philosophy itself. I think I have changed a lot over the years, to the point where I barely remember what I used to think or why. Five, ten years from now: what then? Hard to say. But looking forward to the ride.
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I like your attitude. It is a ride. Sometimes fun, sometimes scary, and sometimes crazy. There’s always something new and unexpected waiting just around the bend.
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He does try so hard doesn’t he. He is obviously attuned to your limitations and goes out of his way to assist. A “thank you” to him would be rather nice.
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Oh no, no no… we aren’t going to start with the deserving a “Thank you!” …. I know how that usually ends up, but nope, not working this time!
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So you do know how to spell “thank you.” I feel proud of you. And, you’re welcome.
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Oh gosh! I didn’t say that word, though yes I can spell it!
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A “thank you” would be nice, but I’m not sure she knows how to spell those words.
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Interesting. Maybe it’s my own ignorance, but I don’t feel that constant turn of change. I feel slight modifications… It’s probably just our gut biome changing as we age and adjusting our minds to their needs… As for new philosophies — those are just subtle changes on the old ones. Not a lot of movement since Plato – Aristotle debate…
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I’ll agree that basic philosophies have stayed basically the same. But I believe we have to adjust them to our own unique situations. And those situations are constantly changing.
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All true. Just “feel” like my adjustments have been very, very small. Maybe that’s not a good sign.
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Only you can determine whether or not it’s a good sign. But if you’re pretty much satisfied with where you’re at, then I’d say it’s probably a good sign.
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Ok boomer. JK.
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