How to Circle a (Davis) Square

Step one:  Stifle your ego sufficiently, then proceed.

Step two:  Disgorge soul.

As a longtime sufferer of depression (to start the conversation light & impersonal), I have a special hatred of advice that can be summed up as "Get Over It" — I've seen too many situations where that's impossible and cruel to suggest.  Yet as a philosophy nut I fully admit that such advice may sometimes be useful, though this doesn't dampen my eye-rolling, fist-shaking rage when it is.

The thing is, you really can't benefit from any good influences that are around you if you won't pay attention to them.  (I know, Buddha is an effing broken record sometimes.)  And you really can't pay much attention to them if you're busy being overwhelmed by how much you resent / are horrified by / hate people or deities for / wish you'd never encountered the past…or how much you hope for / are afraid of / are worried about some aspect or another of the future.  In this sense past and future are obstructions, to peace, answers, and help.

So when things hit a certain kind of deep-dug, long-term suck, "get over it" — in the sense of making a conscious decision to stop letting thoughts of past or future intervene, to shelve your ego and just do what's in front of you as best as you can — is sometimes, unfortunately, the best advice.

Step two point five:  Refine.

Don't fight the darkness;
Watch your flashlight.

Step Two point seven five:  Chit-chat.

So things are good here, work is great, family is great, arch-nemeses both corporeal and psychological are failing to destroy both…I took on the hundredpushups and twohundredsitups programs and they're awesome; been getting to class lots too, woot…sleep schedule is still Everyman 4.5 for now, but I travel more often now and it's monophasic then, due to not having set up a way to nap in Home #2 yet; but thank the gods for E4.5, even; it's a big help. 

How are ya'll?

Step Three:  Hit "Publish".

Step Three Point One (Optional):  Add Picture for Effect.