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๐Ÿ˜’ would i rather ๐Ÿ˜Œ

Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2025 10:51:43 AM

be right, or would i rather be happy? short answer, i want to be right and happy! i asked a question the other day about why some of my peers, whom i cannot stand being around are so popular with the rest of my peers. i wondered what it was i was missing and today as i sit here asking a different question, i am starting to get a clue or three about what may be going on. i am falling back into a familiar pattern of having to be right, even if it create chaos within me. my “need” to be right is overriding my desire to be happy. 😡
what then is the answer to this conundrum? the same thing i have been writing about for a week, do my fucking step work! i may not instantly jump on to the bandwagon with the rest of my peers, but i will certainly calm the chaotic storm within me or at least start to do so. i have often said i do not stay clean, day in and day out, to create my own misery and yet here i am, living in that house of pain. the irony here is so delicious that i am rolling on the floor laughing my ass off! 🤣
i have one more week of not working and as a result, i certainly know that i have to start getting myself ready to enter my new career in retail. with the inner turmoil going on, the immediacy of having to deal with customers means that i have to take a step forward into improving my emotional and spiritual fitness. i have a path forward and the ways and means to make it so. just for today, i will not find anything to distract me from doing the needful and see what happens.

∞ DT ∞


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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

3) We meet it and do not see its Front; we follow it, and do not see
its Back. When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things
of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the
beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao.