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๐ŸŒ  my inability ๐ŸŒŸ

Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2022 12:21:25 PM

to accept personal responsibilities, was certainly amongst the issues that were driving the bus, back in the day. it still pops up, now and again, and when the whole world, except for my selected echo chamber is clamoring against me, maybe, just maybe, i need to look and see if i have once again returned to living in self-will and abandoned some or all of my personal responsibility. this morning after failing to complete an assignment in the time allotted, i am going back to the drawing board, and finishing the coding exercise. oh i could whine and moan and say how unfair it was, as the person who interviewed me said there would be no time limit and i would be able to proceed at my leisure. i have decided instead, to complete the project and send it over with the other code sample i intend on sending over, later this afternoon.
today, as i was awake far too early, obsessing about finishing that project, i am way ahead of my normal Sunday schedule., i have been to the store, walked some miles, had lunch and am about to finish my laundry. i am planning on taking most of the afternoon off, but first i have to get the stuff done i want to get done. just as i have accepted personal responsibility for my health and my recovery, so do i have accept personal responsibility for getting a new job. with that in mind, i will post this little exercise and get to “nerding” harder, so i can enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

1) The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree,
and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. All things alike
go through their processes of activity, and (then) we see them return
(to their original state). When things (in the vegetable world) have
displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its
root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness;
and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled
their appointed end.