Growing older is good. It's great to care about mundane things about as much as a "nit on a gnats nut" as D. Rather said. I wish I'd said that. I hope I think it especially fun to go to my ceramics class and make a dreamy knob that's no small cheese in twenty years. I'm just not hard-wired to behave like a sheep...except if he's really cute!
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity, so I say do both with style and enthusiasm. I think most people do what they please then become contrite. I prefer to just do as I please and skip the remorse part. If something that pleases you makes you unhappy then you're probably insane.
In my youth, I got asked a lot by concerned relatives, "Where's your sense of morality, child?"
My head was thinking, " The only thing worse than parents you can't control are ones you can."
That was where I got my grounding. I found out later "Sky-god" was thought to be responsible for peculiar events in almost every human life. How convenient!It didn't matter if you had diarrhea, lost all your money in a poker game, spent all your money on crack, elected the wrong President, helped murder the neighbor's tarantula, or diddled your grandson...it was Sky-god's pleasure, will, AND you could repent and be forgiven which would allow you to rest in the bosom of the "Sky-god Palace". Directions seemed to be vague, but money was accepted.
My security lies within, along with faith in myself. I'm curious about the beliefs of others, and respect them. Most beliefs leave me wondering and don't solve problems. Simply put beliefs either solve a problem or are part of it. I find most people's reality check is like a kite on a long string. It flies for awhile then will dip, tangle and crash because the string is finite and dependent. Wind comes from the four corners of the earth and is infinite, and does what it wants to do with the kite.
NEVER SUBMIT TO THE AGENDA OF ANOTHER!
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