Not Your Average Taurus

The prior post began with the following:

I don’t want to kiss and tell but she kissed me first and she knows it but that was in a different life than this one. A life where technology wasn’t being used as a replacement for the tip jar.

It was written by me, a guy who would not be described as your average Taurus.

You can read that twice if you would like and or lecture me on how to use then and than or suggest that your version of revisionist history is accurate.

Or you can just go about your business and submit to karma, fate and the knowledge that what is meant for you won’t go past you.

That is a line that always makes me smile because it is a feel good line for those who are skeptics and something that works for those who are agnostic.

I consider myself to be a bit of agnostic skeptic because every time I am certain there is nothing else going on in the universe something happens to make me question that position.

Doesn’t stop me from taking action to make my own luck because I don’t like giving control away so I figure it doesn’t hurt anything or anyone.

Is It Better Than The Alternative?

Some years back dad and I had a conversation about birthdays and age in which I said that saying it is better than the alternative as a response to aging might not be true.

“Dad, if this is all we get and nothing comes afterwards than I am not convinced that this is better than the alternative. If I was gone I wouldn’t have to worry about retirement, kids or a million other things. I’d just be done and it would be no skin off of my back.

Lots of other people would be upset that I was gone, but it wouldn’t hurt me one bit so we could say the alternative might be better, certainly less stressful.”

I told him not to worry because I have a long list of things I want to do and experiences I want to have so death isn’t something that attracts me. Not suicidal at all and still plan on being around for decades.

But I don’t have to adopt positions that I don’t agree with and if there is nothing else, than the alternative isn’t bad for us, just those who miss us.

I think of that as having a realistic perspective because when the day comes decades from now all stress goes with it.

Shared the same thought with someone else and they asked me what happens if I am wrong and there is something else.

I said I’d be around to experience that too and it is not impossible for me to change my mind if needed. But I don’t worry about being good for the sake of a reward in the afterlife.

One ought to be good because it is the right thing to do, period.

Anyhoo, I am exceptionally curious what my children will do with their lives and hate the idea of missing out on that.

Besides when I say I know things I have to stick around to see if what I know comes about as I expect. Wouldn’t be any fun to miss out on the opportunity to say “I told you it would happen.” 😉

I Am A Dreamer & I Am Not The Only One

If you want to live, I mean really live you have to have some dreams that drive you. You have to have some passion that pushes you to do more than just pass through life.

It doesn’t have to be something incredible or amazing. Doesn’t have to be special to all people, just has to be special to you.

So if something lights your fire and pushes you to follow that north star until you get to that place you have been dreaming about you ought to relish and cherish it.

That is the kind of thing that helps keep life interesting and helps keep you on a path that has a few adventures.

To me that is what it is all about, having adventures.