Had too much Christmas cheer?

1. You know you have if you... notice your tie sticking out of your fly. 2. Someone uses your tongue for a coaster. 3. You start kissing the portraits on the wall. 4. You see your underwear hanging from the dining room light. 5. You have to hold on to the floor to keep from sliding off. 6. You see three cigarettes and light your nose. 7. You take off your shoes and wade in the dog and cats water bowls. 8. You hear a duck quacking, and it 's you,I do this sober,but usually blame it on Sammie. 9. You complain about the small bathroom after emerging from the closet. 10. You refill your glass from the aquarium. 11. You tell everyone you have to go home... and the party's at your place. 12. You ask for another ice cube and put it in your pocket. 13. You talk to the biggest bore in the room... and realize you 're in front of the hall mirror. 14. You pick up a roll, and butter your watch. 15. You take out your handkerchief and blow your ear. 16. You tell your best joke to the dog. 17. You realize you 're the only one under the coffee table.18.cook breakfast on the woodstove because you do not want to mess up the stove and hear about it later. These are from personal experience. Funny, years later, but still not funny to the ones who love you,or used to love you....

Hello everyone!

Hello to all whom which will read this.
At the suggestion of my beloved better half Sammie, I have moved some of the blogs that I have written on myspace to this destination in worldwide web infinity. This is why the composition dates all co-incide with one another, just in case you are wondering.I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a very,very proserous new year!
Lots of love,
Ed,A.K.A the fat polish kid......

Have you looked in the mirror lately?

When I ask you "Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately"? I dont mean for you to look and say...."Oh my, I am overwieght, I have a big nose, I wish I had bigger *****, I wish I wasnt so tall. my teeth are crooked, Im too pale, and so on.....you get the picture. What I mean is look past all of the outer qaulities and dig deeper till you find the inner qaulities in yourself. What does it look like now that you are staring face to face at it? Is it filled with radiance and beauty that follows you wherever you go.....spreading from person to person leaving them with a smile from ear to ear. Meaning...are you kind and loving that no matter who you meet(even a scrooge) you leave them with a smile apon your face? Do you make a impact on others lives each day that you breathe? Are you living your life to the fullest with absolute satisfaction to who you are? Or do you make others cry and hurt inside with each word you make? Are you a jealous creature that destroys everything in its path? Or are you just barely gliding through life with out any goals or expectations? Whatever your reflection is...the question I ask you my dear friend..........ARE YOU HAPPY....ARE YOU PROUD OF WHO YOU HAVE BECOME?

A fine line between words and weapons....

I hear a lot of talk no matter where I'm at. I hear folks that are law
biding citizens (and most financially stable) talk about the stuff they
hear on the news, or things they read in the paper. "OMG did you here
about that armed robbery! Or what about that poor clerk that was shot!
Man, they need to drag these criminals out back and shoot em!" Then I
hear all the crap about politics and the B.S. the government is doing
and what not. These same law biding citizens will talk behind the back
of fellow humans in such a way that is totally uncalled for, and
sometimes even say hurtful things to a person's face! They don't stop
and think or maybe not even care about what their doing to this person
emotionally! Then they b&tch about politics and then turn around and
impose their own kind of politics on you! Well, let's talk about
weapons of crime. We got your guns, knives, brass knuckles, ball bats,
blackjacks, tazers. Do I really need to go on? You can picture in your
mind the crimes committed with these weapons. I had a revelation! Not
to compare law biding citizens to criminals, but what about crimes
against humanity?! What about crimes against the heart?! I don't think
people realize or even care how words can hurt someone! That's right; I
think you know where I'm going with this. Are not words and attitudes
weapons? I would say positively yes! Sadly though, each and every one
of us harbors those types of weapons in our soul. It seems to be in our
nature to want to hurt one another! Is there no way to break this
trend? Are humans truly a lost cause? I don't know, that's why I'm
asking! When you, for no good reason poke fun at somebody, you are
using a weapon. When you lay your B.S. politics on somebody, you are
using a weapon. When you’re out of line with your attitude and say
hurtful things to a person, YOU ARE USING A WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!! To the
self righteous, rather than using your words and attitudes as weapons
and hurting others around you, or judging every one around you THINKING
that you're better, why not take some time out each day as I have and sit
in judgment on yourself!

Human potential

Human potential is the best options a person has to benefit the world.

Many see human potential as a personal goal. Personal potential. What am I personally capable of? This way of thought gives people ambitions that are mutually exclusive and impossible to reconcile with the ambitions of others. Keep in mind that there are a limited amount of resources at any given time.

We can't all be rich. For some to be rich, there must be others that are poor. So that some can have more than enough, there must be others that starve.

We can't all be famous. For some to have attention focused on them, the focus must come from everyone else.

We can't all be masters. For some to be masters, there must also be slaves.

People tend to blame greed for this predicament. I think there is a better explanation. There is, current in our society, a motivation to maintain and enhance favorable views of oneself. A placing of oneself at the center of his or her world. An excessive love of one's person that leads to unsustainable levels of vanity and selfishness.

It's almost as if we as a society have never grown up. Somehow, by having all our needs met, we've come to the conclusion that our wants are our needs and that our desires must also be met to survive. That it is automatically a good idea to try and obtain everything that we want without thinking. We are a society of spoiled brats.

Alternatively, Mature thinking follows that "we" are more important than "me". If I'm focused on me, I can't be focused on us, but if I am focused on us, I am also included in that focus. Doing what's best for "us" is a way to benefit myself without compromising the other.

Another problem with seeing human potential as chiefly personal is that there is no end to a person's individual potential. If your goal in life is to have money, how much is enough? If your goal is power, how much is enough? If your goal is love, if your goal is knowledge, if your goal is inner peace, if your goal is stuff, How much is enough? Where does it end?

"My goal is raising a family."

That's a good goal. It takes the emphasis off yourself. But how many people have a stated goal, an explicit goal, when their true goal is safety and comfort.

"I want to be safe and comfortable so I can raise my family."

How safe do you want to be? How comfortable do you want to be?

Is there such a thing as absolute safety? Absolute comfort?

Safety is the illusion of safety. The truth is, we could die suddenly at any time.

Experiencing comfort primes the mind to expect comfort. That which is a comfort one day, is a necessity the next.

There is no clear end to personal ambition. It ends with unlimited power by one individual. Unlimited personal ambition leads to concentration of power in those that already have power. It's as if society is a giant pyramid scheme, but one that hasn't been thought through to the end.

The people in charge that started civilization, (long dead), had the power to organize society along lines that benefited chiefly themselves, others like them and their children.
This is the class based society.
If you are born into power: lucky you!
If you are born without power: believe in reincarnation!

The newly moneyed masses saw the value of being included in such a scheme and fought for greater rights of participation. The pyramid of society started to wobble. The balance was gone. The ones in power then had to compromise to maintain their dominance.
Democracy was born.
Rule according to popular opinion.
Some opinions are more popular than others.
This doesn't mean they are more right.

Democracy takes a lot of thought into the field of psychology to work, (that is, produce the effect you want). The product of working to discover the psychological basis for opinions is a limited ability to influence opinions. The byproduct is commercialism: the manipulation of opinions for profit, the effect of which is concentration of power in those that have the ability to appeal to psychology.

Unless you have the money to support a huge marketing division, your ideas are little more than a shot in the dark. You have no idea if they're going to stick. This very manifesto is similar to a shot in the dark. I had no test audience to analyze the efficacy of the message. There are no fancy colors and pictures. No meaningless statistics. 5 out of 5 doctors don't agree with it. It isn't sold at "rock bottom prices!" or "One day only!". I'm working off pure faith that these ideas are good enough to spread. Before the internet, I wouldn't have believe it was possible. Now that information can be transported anywhere in the world without having to buy airtime and a charismatic host, it could be possible for an idea like this to spread to the entire world.

Something learned

If there is one thing...

I have learned, things are not always what they seem to be...We sometimes only see the surface of things because we don't get to see what is going on deeper... Sometimes we think that people that appear to have it all must have the most amazing lives and sometimes that is true, but sometimes that is far from being the truth ... I've always tried to look beyond appearances... It's not about the house that someone lives in or the car they drive or the clothes they were...That is only camouflage... Sometimes those are things that people hide behind because of a myriad of reasons... Does someone's pocket book make them more appealing than someone that lives a more modest lifestyle?...Does someone that knows all about the latest trends or all the posh new places more interesting than someone that enjoys the simplicity of life and can appreciate nature... Sometimes we get caught up in appearances only to realize that it is only appearance, it has nothing to do with the true nature of that person...

Finding the inner child in yourself.

Finding the inner child in yourself.
Isn't it strange how when you are only a child and one day appears where you see that hero through your eyes, and in that moment you know. You know what you wanna be when you grow up.

I remember seeing a series once when I was once a child like this - searching subconciously for my superhero - who after enough episodes realized that I had, in fact, found my hero. This character was someone who made me want to grow up, he was the strong and care-free one. The one in the group who no longer wanted to be cooped up and stuck with the everyday norm, but instead in reality became someone, something else simply because he chose to do so.

It gave me hope into being able to do what I want with my life, it gave me hope to never be like the sheep in the herd, but rather to be the herder... perhaps not guiding others, but merely guiding myself. And sometimes in life, realising that we need to lead our own lives. So often we let society and even those special someones close to us, tell us how we should walk, talk, dress and even what we should eat. Do we do this because we are scared? Or because we lack originality? Or even because we are all programmed like they said with the clones in the movie 'The Island' with just 7 different stories, all adjusted just that little bit in order to allow us to think we lead our own lives... it's an interesting thought, and no one has proven anything wrong, so in theory it's possible.

The man in this episode that opened my eyes, would be someone important one day and then someone equally important the next day, but in a different environment completely. He reminds me of a cameleon - how close we are to that one animal and yet, I think that sometimes we don't remember or realize how well we adapt to change, to our friends, family, fashion, work, our lives. This man would more than likely end up building an emotional connection with another person in this series, and when he did he would either save them, be compassionate towards them and more importantly where he could not save them, he felt what they feel.
Other than taking charge of your life and being your own person, have you ever helped someone else in your life... perhaps by just being you... perhaps by letting your heart and emotions do the talking instead of just your mind. How easy it is to have your life and be in charge of it, but how dificult it is to be so selfless at the same time.

There are so many things happening within us, and possibly around us that allow us to experience that extra something in our lives. Faith, hope, God, spirits, ghosts, intuition... there are endless names we call these feeling and yet sometimes we just don't trust them. We need to be awakened to the world that surrounds us - the real world and not the material world where everyone else cowers.. no, we need to brace ourselves for a bigger and better ride... A ride that will ultimately guide us to be the perfect inner child, the child that is not afraid of approaching someone and telling them what they feel, a child that trusts that feeling without question no matter what we or others call it, a child that is not scared to spend time around HIV infected children or adults, a child that is not scared to break out of the box of unchange, a child that knows what it wants for him/ herself.

Perhaps its time to live your life like that child you once were, perhaps its time to start to learn a little like 'The Pretender' did.
Perhaps its time to find your root and your inner happiness... take a step.