the unexamined life is not worth living...
but when I employ this maxim thru blog-speak, I'm sure it sounds like all I do is complain. That is not my intention. One of the big things I've learned from Lorie Ladd is that we as individuals, choose to examine the world thru a variety of "lenses"... there are many myriad types of lenses that we can view the world thru, and we can change them as frequently as our initiative to "take a fresh look at things" occurs to us. For instance, we can view the world (and ourselves, our personal lives) thru a lens of "victimhood". Imagine this quite figuratively, that we wear a pair of glasses (lenses) that program our minds to believe that we are a victim in this world. Someone could experience some hardship in their lives that adjusted their self-opinion to believe the narrative of victimhood and begin to live underneath the power of that programming. I know I've done this at various times in my life. It takes an experience of enlightenment, viewin...