Can You Read This?

Stupid question, right? “Can you read this?” Or, is it?

Well, my apologies but, at my age, I have too much time on my hands so I find slight tangents running from rote ideas all over the place. Rote – like being able to read. I learned to read more years ago than I care to remember. I used my ability to read to learn servers and that took becoming familiar with code which required stretching my mind to its limits, a thing I had not done to that extent since college. Actually, it became a proving ground for me in that it pushed my confidence in myself right to the edges of my stagnant reality. That made it fun and challenging, both.

Further, it brought me up a level or two from where I have been since ceasing to work in my profession. It also got me thinking about how simple life is with some type of education. All things I, we, took, take, for granted. Such as being able to read. Of course mathematics is at yet another level for our minds but what I recall of mathematics you could put in the coin pocket of a pair of Levis.

How is it that we are the only ones who read? The only ones who do math or psychology? Architecture? Plumbing? Carpentry? We have an innate ability to do pretty much anything we need or want done. Sure, some take more practice and thought than the other but I haven’t seen an Armadillo out building a freeway of late. Or had to keep an appointment with a doctor that is a racoon. It seems that we are the only ones in the known universe who are able to do all these myriad things. Yet, we kill each other at the drop of a hat. Sort of weird, isn’t it? Am I lacking focus? Am I more silly than a Mocking Bird? No, I just have time to think and my thought process is formed very much by scripture. God, in a word. He gave us our abilities for al that we do, some better than others but each of our own abilities that we take for granted each and every day. We complain about having to do that which we are good at. What we need to do is take nothing for granted.

The reason I got old was to think of these things I guess. There is no better reason that I can come up with. I am still busy so, no, I do not have too much time on my hands. Nor do I drink or smoke weed nor do I perform debauchery. I keep my nose and mind clean at all times except when I think back to the war I was in. A war that showed the worst of what humans are capable of if misdirected by governments.

Take nothing you are as a human being for granted and be thankful for a bad day because you could be dead and bad days we all have. That person who insulted you? Forget about it as you are better than that person is. You don’t go around insulting your fellow man or woman do you? If you do then take a lesson for how it feels to be insulted and change your ways. It is all so simple. Just be nice. That alone is probably the most difficult thing you can imagine doing though, right?

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