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Life is hard. The only place to soothe the roughness is home. Home is where you find your smile and where you are understood. Welcome! @Burningwords The writer. 👆
I don't trust people who have deep hate for liars.
They're usually liars themselves.
When somebody starts telling you something, an idea, or a news, or something they like, don't cut them off because you already know what they're gonna say, or because you heard it before.
Be silent, and let them finish. In fact, ask them more about it.
I know you want to show off by letting them know you knew, but think about it.
What good comes out of that? You'll only erode their openness to you. They'll start sharing less with you.
On the other hand, when you listen to them,
* you'll cultivate a strong bond;
* you'll train your ability to listen more than you talk;
* and you'll begin to have patience with those less skilled than you are.
People's self-expression can be more important than your ego.
This is a very good rule of thumb for fostering a good relationship with people around you—with very few exceptions.
#small_words
The value of being around people you love, and people you grew up with is massive.
You don't know how valuable that is until you lose it. Sahil Bloom described it best: The people who will be at the front row seats at your funeral? Those people matter.
If you're not seeing and meeting those people, I know for sure that you feel a void. Some emptiness.
Time is really small. I don't believe I have long before I connect with my people.
It's horrible to be disconnected from dear ones.
Some people have this urge to move out from people they love, for various reasons. Unless for an extreme reason, never put yourself in a position where you'll be physically disconnected from the people you love.
It's heartbreaking. It's number one, or close, in making you feel regrets of your past choices.
As a social animal, one of the prime reasons our brain is huge is because of our intricate social life. Depriving yourself of good relationships will break you down.
The lone wolf survives, but the pack thrives.
I've seen people move away from their parents and their friends and watched them deteriorate daily.
Even research supports that the number one indicator of good health, good aging, is relationships.
Make time for the people who will be seated at the front row on your funeral. What really matters more for you?
Have a good day! ❤️
A person you can anger is a person you can control.
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Ruth was his girl for very long.
And one day, she broke his heart.
Now he's ruthless.
#three
What shocked me about the incident, is that some of the normal-looking Muslims I know are stating that the Christian deserves death.
Their reason: he offended the Prophet (and by extension Allah, I guess).
If a Muslim with influence gets on a platform and talks shit about Jesus, haven't you been alive long enough to understand how that backfires?
Urging to see a Christian's blood spilt, just because his beliefs offend yours, is a recipe for destruction.
The Christians did not ask for the killing of the Islamic figure who blasphemed against the Son of God. The Christians, and this is to my knowledge, are urging other christians to band together in order to free the one in captivity.
And this is not good.
If these dominoes continue falling, the likely outcome is chaos and war.
Nothing good comes out of such blind rage.
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This is not to sound like I'm a saint, or to say that my children will be saints. That's an impossible. I definitely do and say things that I certainly should not be doing and saying, only to regret it moments later.
But having a lens through which I view life has given me a newfound sense of control.
When you know what's most important for you, you see time as the tool to achieve that which is most important. Other whims, dreams, and wishes become irrelevant.
The most powerful god that works against us when it comes to achieving our potential is the god of dreams.
It's that deity that makes our dreams infinite.
But reality hits, and there's no time for all those dreams. There's time only for select few.
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I can't pick every girl, I can't pick every attractive skill, I can't go for every fun thing, but I can try one or two.
Understanding the finite nature of time made me quickly understand that my whims and wishes and dreams are not that important.
For me, what's most important is becoming the kind of man that I would want my daughter to marry, and the kind of man that I would love my son to become.
That is what's most important for me. Nothing else is more important.
And when I figured that statement above, it became a lens through which I evaluate my time, through which I choose what to do and what not to do.
Do I want a man who fucks every hole he sees to marry my daughter? No.
Then I won't too.
Is my son going to be a porn addict who has no sense of responsibility on his shoulders? Who doesn't make real sacrifices for his parents, and wife, and children? No.
Then I know what to do.
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I began understanding the finite nature of time, instead of fearing it. The difference?
Fearing
When I'm in fear, I don't think clearly. I lose the energy to break free of the loop I'm in. The hours pile up, and all I've done is all that came my way.
Understanding
Time is indeed limited. And seeing it like that, without freaking out about it, makes me understand that time being limited means that I too am limited. I can't do or be everything I wanna be in this one lifetime. It's not enough to do or be everything, BUT it's enough to be something.
Understanding the finite nature of time makes me think of all the things I wanna become, or things I wanna do in life, and it forces me to choose.
Time is limited. Maybe I have thirty years left to live, maybe thirty days. Being in control of my time doesn't mean using it all for fun: I don't wanna have fun all the time anyways.
I wanna build and create and learn and make great connections. Lots of people have their own theories, methods, approaches to life, and when I understand this finite resource I have, my approach to life reveals itself. I have to be selective.
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Good Lord. 😪
I'll never understand Americans beef with the metric system.
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait til I grew up. Til I became a grown-up who everybody respected, somebody with freedom. A naive wish.
I grew up, then time became my enemy. Of course time doesn't care about me, or anybody else for that matter. Time doesn't mean me any harm: time just is, and it's moving forward.
And there's this feeling in me that makes me think that it's too late.
Too late to begin that business, or too late to start learning that skill, or too late to get that job, or too late to fix that relationship. Generally too late to alter the direction of my life.
I don't feel in control of time, because my time is being stolen by various activities. I'm stuck in a loop, which seems to have a very strong grip on my hours and days.
But I know it shouldn't be this way. My waking hours cannot be mindless flow from task to task to another task. I'm becoming painfully aware that if I don't change something fundamental, time, with its blitz speed, will push me in my seventies, or pull me in six feet under.
Death is any day.
I fear the finite nature of time, how small time really is, but recently something changed.
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I've written quite a bit over the years, haven't I?
What a gorgeous life.
Have a good day. ❤️
I have to be honest... This really does not look like a coincidence...
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Treat your lady better. You don't need multiple women, and be grateful of her efforts.
Good morning.
Never posting anything offensive ever doesn't mean you're "nice." It only means you're a people pleaser.
Never said anything offensive? Same.
Trying to hard not to offend makes you inauthentic.
Retards will equal what I said above and say to me, "So you're saying I should offend people in order to be authentic?"
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Without women, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I love it when you are miserable without me.
#toxic
The Paradox of Giving Without Receiving
For vigin and retarded guys.
Ladies do have hair on them. So what?
Good day to you.
If we're gonna be close, one thing I take a good look at is how you treat people you're exposed to daily.
That says a lot about your character.
You're treating me good now, only because I'm a stranger. The way you treat your closed ones, that's the fate that awaits me once I'm no longer a stranger.
Christians dying at the hands of Muslim extremists
Besides the killings worldwide, recently a Christian has been imprisoned for speaking wrongly about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). And this Christian did not insult the Prophet:
In fact, a respectable Islamic figure was talking down on Jesus, saying that Jesus kissed a little boy on his lips.
And the Christian was responding to that, saying what kind of a man the Prophet was.
Suddenly, some of these Muslims band together to get this Christian killed (he's currently held captive).
Allah, as per the Quran, does NOT seek to exterminate people who criticize the Prophet.
There's no instruction in the Quran that makes some of these Muslims hunt Christians down.
In the infamous Sword Verse (Quran 9:5), Allah urges Muslims to slay the pagans. Not because they're pagans, but because they BROKE agreements with the Islamic tribes. In the same verse, however, Allah commands Muslims to show mercy to those who repent.
This verse is very much grounded in the proper context, and yet extremists take it out of context, and justify why they're slaughtering innocents.
Majority of Muslims are not like that, and yet these small minority make big noise, and it seems as if this is what Islam is all about.
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The good old days.
It's Sunday.
Get some sunlight, reset, and breathe.
When engaging in conversations, it's always best to assume that the other person knows something that I don't.
If I don't assume that, I'm just going in for clash of words, not for learning.
I must be willing to change, specially if it's an issue I'm not an expert on.