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Thanks MM, for you input. I am kinda surprised by some of the stuff on this thread sometimes! I guess there are those moments in life when what we are experiencing is like a really bad script from a made for guys movie, but thankfully, I really do think there is quite a good variety of humans walking around the planet. I actually have literally been shocked to get in on people's inner life and discover what they found attractive in life and people, for example. It is a guarantee, that it is absolutely varied! Hahaha! Maybe we just all need to watch a little less television. Anyway, as we get older, thankfully, we will mostly have a bigger vision of the world around us and get to speak to people truthfully, as they admit that although society has tried, it has not succeeded in indoctrinating us all! Hallelujah. I am trying to imagine going through all this effort just to please some other human and possibly an ingrate at that. Sometimes it helps to think beyond the moment and out of the fishbowl. I wasn't born yesterday, but I started wising up early, thank goodness. It's pitiful how people torture themselves. All this work for some people who may not actually bring joy or more than superficial compliments, like another passing fancy to my life!
Hellz To The Naw!! Glad I have my eyes open, some. As if there isn't enough of a history of slavery, still to this day, in this world and it's like people are looking for ways to trap themselves further. Goodness. God bless us all! I like freedom so much, sometimes I kinda forget about NBE, lol. When I encounter people's (including myself) driving themselves crazy with certain types of slavery (I happen to have experienced some OCD in my life, too. Maybe a little too much hand-washing or wanting to fill a top a certain way when I'm having a dance party in my apartment on a fun lazy afternoon , I've just gotten to the point where I may seriously or nonchalantly ask, "So, uh, you've been doing that thing. How's that working for ya?" Guess how many people have said, "It works great!" or "It makes my life better?" Kinda seems like zero. I have seen where for example the media is a big influence, but it seems like people forget the morale of the story in the same media where they make it obvious that, for example, all this mental/emotional/spiritual slavery ends badly and isn't worth it. Remember? It's all there, y'all! Helps me to remember to laugh with myself, too. Pshew. Oh, my. Good luck, my dear lovlies. Please remember this next time you need to hear it or remember or know it! Know this, I love You!
PS: BonitaDD, I too, can be quite shy. I was quite the mouse when I was pretty young. It's true sometimes I wanna be on stage singing karaoke, hehehe, and other times, Nu-uhn. Lol!
Thin? Reminds me of some of my favorite people. Hehehe. I have all kinds of people I love and that I find attractive. My best friend teased me about being a chubby chaser, (cause she is a beautiful big woman, whom I have partially lost to a tall handsome, sweet man even though I saw her first! When I met my mate, he was worried about being overweight. And he was serious! I was like, "Huh?! I don't get it. You're kidding! You are hot, man!" This thread is a reminder that we have got to monitor the game of pretend "mind-reader" that our minds use to mess with us, sometimes. I don't know exactly what is even attractive about that to people. I guess maybe people are so afraid of being disappointed, we sometimes walk and talk ourselves like zombies, into disappointment.
Seriously, though, I send y'all some happy waves. I hope we all get away from the (pardon) bubetube & celebrity mags sometime and take a walk in Nature. Cosmo and fashion mags can have some interesting material in them. Haha. That was hard to even say, but anyway, when I apparently had nothing better and checked them out, it just makes me wonder if people, or sheeople are really that desperate. "What's hot!" for example. And then if people do those things, their lives will be better just because People magazine said that suchandsuch did it!? The same people in the next issue discussing their rehab & family problems?! Seriously?! I suppose that sometimes, obvious is not really obvious. Who are the crazy or evil masterminds behind these nefarious practices anyway. I think it may be us! In a way, we encourage it. What if we just, Didn'T!?
Big, warm hugz y'all!

Oh, yeah!! There's a LOT of nice people all over this flat earth, problem is, you pretty much have to FIND them!!

I think we need to watch a LOT less t.v.!!!! 99% of it is either pure shit or flat out lies anyway!! Video games are taking away our sociality, too!! I keep thinking of how, when I was a kid, there were ALWAYS LOTS of us outside playing in the streets and having fun!! These days, I REALLY MISS the sound of kids playing on the streets!! We'd play Kickball, Release, Frisbee, Dodgeball, Murderball, or we'd go exploring a few caves nearby, or just go out riding bikes.. If there was a new house being built, we'd take over the sand pile and build roadways and tunnels in it and run our Hot Wheels through them. Sometimes we'd have a yard full in the pool. There was almost always SOMETHING going on outside!! These days, I'm lucky if I even see so much as a few little kids quietly riding by on their bikes!!

Like Rick Nelson sang: You can't please everyone, so you gotta please yourself!!

I know!! You CAN'T live your life the way some bullshit scandal rag TELLS you live. Live YOUR life YOUR way!!!! As long as you aren't hurting anybody!! The more people that take their own lives into their OWN hands instead of allowing Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton TELL them how to live, the more FREE people we'll have in the world and happier those people will be that they are doing it THEIR way, and the more powerful we'll ALL be BECAUSE of it!!!!

Well, Char, I could tell you who a lot of the masterminds are, but, it'd be a VERY long reply!! We aren't really the ones MAKING it happen, we're just the ones LETTING it happen!!!! :-( Same said magazines drive the less intelligent to blindly follow the piper into the mouse trap as if we think THAT'S what we're SUPPOSED to do and if we DON'T, we won't be able to hang out with the cool kids anymore!! Before you now it, they ARE trapped and looking for a way out or just happily following the program because that's what they're TOLD to do!!

Thanks for the hugs!!!! When I was in college with Jennifer and the others that were in the school's art club, we had a tiny little office on the third floor of this mansion (two beds would've taken up ALL the floor space!!) and we made it a rule that EVERYTIME someone came in or out of the office, hugs were shared all around by everyone that was in the room!! Wouldn't it be a much nicer planet if we ALL did that everywhere!!!!

Peace, love and music to you ALL!!!! (The ethos of Woodstock!!)

MM