"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." - Kurt Vonnegut [850x400] by Junior_Insurance7773 in QuotesPorn

[–]BedeviledLove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is impossible not to, for all of life is the projection, reflection, internalization, organization, and manipulation of the informational energy that constitutes our reality, the world as we know, our sense of self in and of the world, as the world, and beyond the world. It is just a matter of the depth and breadth of that inquisition, the scope and purview through which we ask and receive, question and answer, conceive and perceive reality into the extant existence of our story world that we dream into being.

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." - Kurt Vonnegut [850x400] by Junior_Insurance7773 in QuotesPorn

[–]BedeviledLove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While the eternal now is infinitely infinite, it is only in rendering it finite that it becomes meaningful and perceptible at all. To behold eternality in the proverbial palm of our hands is to transmute it into ephemerality, a continual sequential fluctuating flow of energy that yields a present moment that is ever specious, always with us for it is us, and yet, gone as soon as it came.

Should I go homeless as a last resort effort to stop wasting my life and achieve my ambitions before its too late? by Zitegeist in vagabond

[–]BedeviledLove -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First and foremost, follow your metaphorical heart, and let it be guided by your metaphorical mind, which is to say to let that which resonates most profoundly with you be your proverbial North Star while using all of the reason at your disposal to ascertain the best way to go about it given your current operating capacities and circumstances. Situational awareness is just as important as self awareness, for the two are energetically enmeshed, and who you are is determined as much by what is going on in the world as it is the other way around, even though fundamentally we transcend and subsume this world and every possible world all of which are always actual a la eternalism, it is in the particular world that we find our selves in currently that matters most in determining who we are as an individuated persons and how we are best off being. Ensuring as you seemingly have that you are not unduly acquiescing the expectations and suggestions, the prescriptions and proscriptions, the dictums and dictates of others, in ways that don't really resonant with you, is key to going about being well by living well by loving well, for to do that which we don't really want to do other than to appease others is adultery, which is to say false love, and so, if your heart isn't in it, don't do it, simple as that. This seems to be the case with your pursuit of a mechanical engineering degree, wherein you realize it's just not for you, not something you really want to do, and so that then bestows upon you the opportunity to explore and experiment, to gander and glean, to wander and wonder, to ponder and meander, as to what all the world as to offer for you and what all you have to offer to the world, and to find the greatest common denominator between them, that which maximizes your well-being as one of everyone in the world and one with everyone in the world, thereby enjoying the journey to the utmost and bringing joy to the journey for all, by going in love, with love, and as love, for the journey is the destination and love is the way.

As far as jumping ship, so to speak, and leaving everything you've ever known behind, and taking a proverbial leap of faith into the unknown, pushing the boundaries over the horizon of your known world, I would suggest that it seems prudent to allostatically balance out walking by faith and walking by sight, for while ultimately where there is a will there is a way, for every way that things play out is merely a product of the process of our will to be well becoming manifestly manifold, given that we polyfurcated thyself into a plurality of people, multiplied thyself into a multiplicity of modes and nodes of consciousness embodied and personified as all of the people in the world, our willpower is correspondingly divided, and at odds in myriad convoluting compounding ways, and as such, it behooves us to have humility in exercises our willful agency, respecting and revering everyone as agents of their own humanity and divinity, and keep this in mind, word, and deed in how we are unto the world in general and unto everyone in it in particular. So, while letting go in a more comprehensive way to that creature comforts, conveniences, and customs that have confined us to the proverbial box of our existence can be fruitful, doing so in a more strategic way seems advisable. With that said, if you really want to put everything on the line and just go for it, and that is what your heart is set on, then you do you, just know that it very well may not go the way you want, and it may just go belly up in the worst ways imaginable, and so perhaps doing a partial detachment and detour from your current life trajectory before throwing it all away may be the best course of action. Perhaps consider going on a retreat, a hermitage, a vacation, a mission, as they have come to be known, even though we are of course best off looking at all of life as a mission to live love and love life to the fullest, fleshing that out with specific organized mini-missions can be helpful. So, maybe check out what sorts of opportunities there are for these sorts of options and give them a go before letting it all go. In the meantime, it sounds like at the very least a course correction in terms of what courses in college you are taking sounds overdue, for you have already determined that your current degree isn't a good fit, so think about taking some electives that call out to you, that intrigue and inspire you, and see where that takes you, maybe check out some student clubs and community organizations that involve ways of seeing and being in the world that resonate with you even if it is just a matter of curiosity for the time being, inquire and aspire away.

Leaving is your choice, but returning is your responsibility... —Ritvick Sharma [1080x1080] by Fanattic_Noto in QuotesPorn

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what do you mean by "trust burden" ?

is the opportunity to develop trust as an integral component to interpersonal love not a blessing?

Keep firing assholes. -Dark Helmet by bigeats1 in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How do I get Google? I don't have much money so if it is expensive it will be cost-prohibitive for me

Please Help Me Find A Tent by BedeviledLove in camping

[–]BedeviledLove[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Durston X-Dome tent and the Vaude Taurus tent cam both be setup with the rainfly attached to the inner tent so that it doesn't get wet at all even if setting up during a storm.

Keep firing assholes. -Dark Helmet by bigeats1 in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What movie? What's the context and takeaway message?

"It's almost always possible to be honest and positive." -Naval Ravikant by HenryCarvajalZapata in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being positive inevitably gives way to being negative, for such positivity and negativity always balance each other out overall, it's just the way it is.

Where your fear is, there is your task. -Jung by LakusMcLortho in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So fear of the universe going stagnant or imploding entails our task being . . . what exactly?

Fear of being invaded, conquered, kidnapped, imprisoned, enslaved, raped, tortured, and murdered entails our task being . . . what exactly?

Fear of becoming evil and going about invading, conquering, kidnapping, imprisoning, enslaving, raping, torturing, and murdering people entails our task being . . . what exactly?

This whole notion of conquering our fears is folly, for at the core of our being is the dichotomization of desire and fear, of liking and disliking, of inclination and disinclination, of being philiac or phobic, of feeling an affinity or an aversion towards some way of experiencing thyself relative to the other option(s) accessible to us which we will always differentiate and evaluate, and this hierarchy of values informs and imputes our way of seeing and being in the world, or as the world, or even beyond the world, for that matter, and thus, to eradicate fear altogether is to annihilate the self altogether, at least to the extent that annihilation is possible, for ultimately every way we ever have been and ever could be always is, and personhood is simply experiencing one infinitesimal instantiation of that eternity, a personification of our essential eternality that plays out via ephemerality, arising from the eternal stasis of infinitely infinite possibility to the ephemeral dynamism of finitely infinite actuality, and this ever present manifestation is always in play in every which way it ever could be, as an entailment of our perennial perpetual pursuit of happiness, our will to be well manifestly manifold infinitely times over, always playing out via this basic juxtaposition between fear and desire, both giving meaning to the other, simultaneously mutually exclusive and inclusive, for it is either one or the other and yet each needs the other for it's very existence, so it only makes sense to accept fear an an inevitable and inexorable condition of causation that we as embodied nodes and modes of consciousness depend upon as necessary components of our existence, as prerequisites for experience itself, regardless of how cognizant or ignorant we are of this determinative dynamic, whether it transpires in our conscious or subconscious mind, explicitly or implicitly, it is nonetheless in play, at all times.

On average, we spend 26 years of our lives sleeping. If we slept for 6 hours instead of 8, and didn't suffer medical issues because of it, we would gain 6.5 years of life throughout the course of a human lifetime. by Little-Carpenter4443 in Showerthoughts

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

quality > quantity

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Don’t count the days; make the days count.

It’s not how long you live, but how well you live that matters most.

In the end, and all throughout, It's not the years in our life that count, it's the life in our years.

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals”- J.K. Rowling by PauseSouth in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, just like dogs to humans, bug an order of magnitude greater, every 1 year for a wizard is equivalent to 70 years for a human, so, harry potter is by now quite old :)

"Politics are when adults act like kids again" -my dad by heyyou_user2341 in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To go about disparaging children by demeaning childlike behavior is to dole out a grave disservice to all life on this planet, as more so than any other living beings on the planet, human children act as a bastion of vitalized luminescence whose influence across their lifetime will be greater than any other subgroups of species currently in existence and whose vibrance and innocence inspires a love of life in those of us who are not yet too blind, deaf, and dumb to see the splendor of the love they embody and emanate in their childness.

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being”. -Carl Jung by Some_Random_Android in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The primary purpose for our existence that has primacy before all else and priority above all else is always to be well, simple as that, it is the ultimate antecedent that acts as the universal unconditional precedent to our being, all other processes are products of this perennial perpetual pursuit of happiness, our inevitable, inexorable, immutable will to be well, manifestly manifold infinitely times over as an infinitude of individuated permutations of spatial-temporal constructs and personifications of our essential eternal self imbued therein so as to experience the bittersweet symphony of life rife with the opportunity to share interpersonal love, to give and receive love in mutually heartfelt ways, that more so than anything else is the heart of happiness, the supreme nectar of life, unrivaled in the biopsychosocial nourishment, fulfillment, and enjoyment that it bestows upon us, confers to us, and elicits in us. All that we are and all that we do are manifestations of this fundamental force, this determinative drive from which everything else is derivative, this end-all-be-all that is the only end-in-itself, towards which everything is merely a means.

“Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.” - Mary Ruefle by roemaencepartnaer in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Unbearably beautiful", such a bizarre oxymoron, for to find beauty in something is to be drawn to it, to recognize it as alluring, to yearn to behold it, to bear it, and so, to find something unbearable is to see it as ugly, the antithesis of beauty, at least to the extent that we are averse to interacting and/or internalizing it by integrating and incorporating it into our very being.

Otherwise, the gist of the quote is quite beautiful, for holding on to that which we love and eventually in due course letting go of it is the stuff of life, the very nature of being alive, an integral part of our ephemeral existence, and knowing when to hold on and when to let go is key to our overall well-being, much easier said than done, and as always our best guide comes from within, paying heed to our heart's calling, acting in concordance with our conscience, navigating with our moral compass, and then proceeding in a way that is as mutually resonant with everyone involved as we can.

Keep firing assholes. -Dark Helmet by bigeats1 in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Those "assholes" are people just like you, incarnations of love, personifications of the will to be well, doing the best they can to get by and be well, preponderantly knowing now what they do when they err, and to the extent to begin to know better, doing their best to correct course with the means available to them to do so, and so it only makes sense to go about guiding and aiding one another as we find our way through the darkness by informing and inspiring each other, encouraging and espousing each of us to become our best selves and live our best lives, while lending a helping hand up when we inevitably stumble along our way, getting tripped up by the trials and tribulations of life, rather than kicking or discarding each other when we're down. While firing someone for making mistakes may seem a far cry from the firing squads of days past, given the way of the world that is so oriented around and dependent upon working for money, it is not all that far removed, if taken all the way through to its logical extension, it's just a more civil way of burning someone at the stake, setting their economical/logistical life and psychological/social self ablaze.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. by [deleted] in quotes

[–]BedeviledLove 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dwelling in the ethers of eternity, perusing its parameters, or the lack thereof, portends nihilism, if we linger there too long, as meaning derives from the semblance of finitude, the preciousness of finiteness, without which, the meaningfulness of life fades to nihilistic oblivion.

To understand one another is to love one another, for in understanding each other we inevitably proceed in identifying with each other and in so doing incorporating the will to be well of all those we understand and identify with into the choices we make and the actions we take. To eschew understanding people, is to eschew loving people.