RICK'S BAD ROBOTS and HOPE

I was reading a couple of interesting things that resonated with me yesterday that I can relate to myself and to some people close to me.

"Our minds can't tell the difference between real experience and one that is vividly and repeatedly imagined"

Obviously this could be very positive if you are trying to go forward with a pure and exciting idea that seems out out reach. Like living in Peru and helping a community with their philosophies of god knows what. These experiences just seem out of reach for the average person.


My Robot (self image)
I have a little Robot
That goes around with me;
I tell him what I'm thinking,
I tell him what I see.

I tell my little Robot
All my hopes and fears;
He listens and remembers
All my joys and tears.

At first my little Robot
Followed my command;
But after years of training
He's gotten out of hand.

He doesn't care what's right or wrong
Or what is false or true;
No matter what I try----NOW
HE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!


This is obviously coming from a place of powerlessness and self pity but we can all relate.


This last one comes from Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the first lady of China in the 40's.

If the past has taught us anything it is that every cause brings its effect, every action has a consequence. We Chinese have a saying "If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans"
And this is true of every one's life; good begets good, and evil leads to evil.
In the end, we are all the SUM TOTAL of our actions.

CHARACTER CANNOT BE COUNTERFEITED, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a GARMENT to meet the whim of the moment. Like the markings on wood which are ingrained in the very heart of the tree, CHARACTER REQUIRES TIME and NURTURING for growth and development.

Thus also, day by day, we WRITE OUR OWN DESTINY; for inexorably...........WE BECOME WHAT WE DO.


I know I try to do the right thing with people and for them, but you know, it's a work in progress.

There are a couple of people that I make very happy and continue to do so, and then there are a couple of people that I really have cared for that I have just crushed with disappointment, and I apologize.

If given a second chance, I would do it differently.

We will see if I ever get that second chance or I just apply that knowledge to another person in my new life and hope that it resonates well with them and puts a smile on their face, forever.


RICK