Have a Bootiful 🎃 Halloween 👻
Two Short Stories
Read Two Short Stories Now!
Prometheus the Magic Man - what happens when Magic meets it's match the power of ❤️ Love.
The Nightshade hotel - can a Ghost compete with a new Love?
Two short and wonderfully entertaining stories! Perfect for 🎃 Halloween or anytime!
Enjoy! 🐱 CAT
Monday, October 31, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Are You Real?
Truth.
It has many levels.
Do you value honesty?
Would you lie to save your life or someone else's?
How about a lie of omission?
Is that your standard of honesty?
Most of the time you tell the truth. You avoid lying whenever possible.
Have you met people who appear to be one person and then you find out they are really quite different?
That nice person became mean, and then he or she showed you their good side again and you became confused. Who are they really? Which personality is the real one?
Eventually, you decide neither one is real. You walk away, because you can't stand the pain.
One day you find out who has been the biggest liar of them all.
You remember the ideals of your youth, the promises you made, the love you forgot. How many years have you lived a lie?
Everything you have is someone else's dream, not yours.
Just when you think you made it, you remember who you are and you don't know yourself anymore.
Which one of you is real?
Who are you?
It has many levels.
Do you value honesty?
Would you lie to save your life or someone else's?
How about a lie of omission?
Is that your standard of honesty?
Most of the time you tell the truth. You avoid lying whenever possible.
Have you met people who appear to be one person and then you find out they are really quite different?
That nice person became mean, and then he or she showed you their good side again and you became confused. Who are they really? Which personality is the real one?
Eventually, you decide neither one is real. You walk away, because you can't stand the pain.
One day you find out who has been the biggest liar of them all.
You remember the ideals of your youth, the promises you made, the love you forgot. How many years have you lived a lie?
Everything you have is someone else's dream, not yours.
Just when you think you made it, you remember who you are and you don't know yourself anymore.
Which one of you is real?
Who are you?
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Healing the Body and the Mind
I've come across very encouraging news regarding healing that is taking place for people who had previously been paralyzed due to physical injury.
To grossly oversimplify, the doctors and scientists created an exoskeletal machine that was responsive to the patient's brain waves. This meant the person who was paralyzed could cause paralyzed parts of his body to move by using his mind to move the machine. When the patients began to regularly use the machine to walk and move, after a while something unexpected happened. The people began to regain some movement and feeling in the previously paralyzed areas. They began to heal! They also regained some control over their bladder and bowel functions.
By simulating and re-creating the experience of moving and walking again, the brain was stimulated and caused to rewire it's connections. The body and the brain began to repair it's connections and the muscles that had atrophied below the severed injured areas began to respond. This effect was not expected by the doctors, but it is very encouraging because instead of just simulating the experience of movement through an exoskeletal robotic mechanism, these people are actually beginning to heal! This is fantastic!
The difference with this therapy versus other therapies that just move the body, is that the brain was involved. That causes the brain to repair and rewire it's connections. The human body was designed to heal itself, because life is a positive experience. If it were not innately positive, no one would be able to survive.
Life is a miracle! The fact that you are here is a miracle! If life we're not good, not only would you not be able to survive, you wouldn't want to. Life and time relentlessly move forward because there is only one direction. No matter what happens, there is always tomorrow.
This medical miracle is a metaphor for all of life's troubles. Don't forget to get your head in the game. You have to believe and you have to engage your mind no matter how much the odds seem stacked against you. Just do something positive; think something positive. Make the effort; plant the seed of faith and watch what grows.
❤️ CAT
To grossly oversimplify, the doctors and scientists created an exoskeletal machine that was responsive to the patient's brain waves. This meant the person who was paralyzed could cause paralyzed parts of his body to move by using his mind to move the machine. When the patients began to regularly use the machine to walk and move, after a while something unexpected happened. The people began to regain some movement and feeling in the previously paralyzed areas. They began to heal! They also regained some control over their bladder and bowel functions.
By simulating and re-creating the experience of moving and walking again, the brain was stimulated and caused to rewire it's connections. The body and the brain began to repair it's connections and the muscles that had atrophied below the severed injured areas began to respond. This effect was not expected by the doctors, but it is very encouraging because instead of just simulating the experience of movement through an exoskeletal robotic mechanism, these people are actually beginning to heal! This is fantastic!
The difference with this therapy versus other therapies that just move the body, is that the brain was involved. That causes the brain to repair and rewire it's connections. The human body was designed to heal itself, because life is a positive experience. If it were not innately positive, no one would be able to survive.
Life is a miracle! The fact that you are here is a miracle! If life we're not good, not only would you not be able to survive, you wouldn't want to. Life and time relentlessly move forward because there is only one direction. No matter what happens, there is always tomorrow.
This medical miracle is a metaphor for all of life's troubles. Don't forget to get your head in the game. You have to believe and you have to engage your mind no matter how much the odds seem stacked against you. Just do something positive; think something positive. Make the effort; plant the seed of faith and watch what grows.
❤️ CAT
Friday, October 7, 2016
The Advanced Class
As we trudge wearily through the earth, we question time and again why we have been asked to comprehend so much. Why have our lives been filled with such irony, such pain and such great loss?
Why have events conspired against me so that I suffered such great and unnecessary loss?
So much time appears to have been wasted. Feelings have been hurt. We have misunderstood each other, attacked one another, and then felt great sorrow realizing our mistake.
There was once a time, in a faraway place, where the decision was made. We are tired. We don't want to be here anymore. It is time to graduate. And so we find ourselves now in the advanced class, learning lessons well beyond our paygrade. Struggling to comprehend life's mysteries, trying to make sense of it all, we are caught in a trap of our own device.
Welcome to the Advanced Class.
Why did that happen to me? Why did I lose so much?
Why have events conspired against me so that I suffered such great and unnecessary loss?
So much time appears to have been wasted. Feelings have been hurt. We have misunderstood each other, attacked one another, and then felt great sorrow realizing our mistake.
There was once a time, in a faraway place, where the decision was made. We are tired. We don't want to be here anymore. It is time to graduate. And so we find ourselves now in the advanced class, learning lessons well beyond our paygrade. Struggling to comprehend life's mysteries, trying to make sense of it all, we are caught in a trap of our own device.
Welcome to the Advanced Class.
Monday, October 3, 2016
Impersonal Instruments
When we see people in person, we tend to treat them better.
However, when someone's lifestyle is unrelatable, most people cannot empathize with them.
This is why cultural differences, gender and generation gaps exist. This is why we are put here on this earth, to learn empathy.
The internet further dehumanizes people. It becomes just words, and we don't have the same self-restraint.
These impersonal instruments, our phones, tablets, computers keep finding more and better ways for us to interact impersonally. We can hide our voices, faces, even our real names behind a screen.
How you treat people when you hide behind your shield of anonymity, that's who you really are. Remember that a real person is reading your words. Words can cut deep. Hateful and harsh words desensitize others and cause more ugliness.
Sometimes there's nothing better than a warm hug or having someone hold your hand when you're tired or feeling down. If all you have is a screen, you can't see or hear what's really going on with someone.
Maybe it's hard to muster compassion on these primitive, impersonal instruments. If that's the case, then get out in the real world, show your face and lend a helping hand rather than a hurtful word. Let me be the first to Thank You!
However, when someone's lifestyle is unrelatable, most people cannot empathize with them.
This is why cultural differences, gender and generation gaps exist. This is why we are put here on this earth, to learn empathy.
The internet further dehumanizes people. It becomes just words, and we don't have the same self-restraint.
These impersonal instruments, our phones, tablets, computers keep finding more and better ways for us to interact impersonally. We can hide our voices, faces, even our real names behind a screen.
How you treat people when you hide behind your shield of anonymity, that's who you really are. Remember that a real person is reading your words. Words can cut deep. Hateful and harsh words desensitize others and cause more ugliness.
Sometimes there's nothing better than a warm hug or having someone hold your hand when you're tired or feeling down. If all you have is a screen, you can't see or hear what's really going on with someone.
Maybe it's hard to muster compassion on these primitive, impersonal instruments. If that's the case, then get out in the real world, show your face and lend a helping hand rather than a hurtful word. Let me be the first to Thank You!
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