If there must be obligations in life
And there must
Then let’s be obligated
To tackle the problems before us
With good cheer. 
We’d have fun
And improve our lot
​At the same time.

Assuming you do what you like and do it respectfully … 

If you like to show affection, you are a healer.
If you like to be trustworthy, you are a healer.
​If you like to beautify eyesores, you are a healer.
If you like to embrace diversity, you are a healer.
If you like to clothe those in need, you are a healer.
If you like to grow food for others, you are a healer.
If you like to clean that which is dirty, you are a healer.
If you like to prepare meals for others, you are a healer.
If you like to create order out of chaos, you are a healer.
If you like to repair that which is broken, you are a healer.
If you like to keep the ground free of litter, you are a healer.
If you like to teach people who want to learn, you are a healer.
If you like to encourage others to meet their potential, you are a healer.
If you like to let people know where they stand with you, you are a healer.
If you like to ease people’s minds without resorting to the lie, you are a healer.
If you like to treat miscreants of all ages with dignity and respect, you are a healer.
If you like to offer help when someone is struggling, and respect a no if you get it, you are a healer.
I you like to raise children to be respectful, self-sufficient, well-rounded, helpful, and resilient, you are a healer.
If you like to control yourself to avoid extremes, you are not only a healer, but also a lover of freedom - and you are needed in this world.

Seeing may lead to believing
But some things can only be seen with the mind’s eye

Hearing may lead to understanding
But some things can only be heard with the mind’s ears

Feeling may lead to knowing
But some things can only be felt with the mind’s hands

Like any modern tech
Our bodies contain both wired and wireless communication systems

Physical senses communicate via the wired neural system
Mind senses communicate via a wireless plasma system

May we keep both communication networks free of debris
Pollutants come in many forms - Physical, Mental, and Emotional.

We live in a bipolar universe. 
There is nothing in existence that is not bipolar.
Bipolar means both/and are true, not either/or.
That means we need to learn to see — and balance — the bipolar in everything.
Select the best of both worlds and integrate them.
Including the best of our bipolar selves.
We are bipolar.
That is not a pathology.
Being unable or unwilling to balance our bipolar natures is where pathology can take hold.

Extroversion is pathological when it is not balanced with introversion.
Introversion is pathological when it is not balanced with extroversion.

Embrace our bipolar nature.
Become skilled at balancing every facet of the equal opposites within and without.
That’s a life skill I can get behind.
That’s how we end all wars for all time, too.
The wars within us, and without.

​Once upon a time, I sought the input from a psychologist. I’m sure she meant well.
 
She asked me, “What is your favorite color?”
“I have many favorite colors.” 

“But which is your favorite?”
“It’s difficult to choose! I only know I don’t like orange, does that answer your question?”

She showed visible frustration as she asked the next question, “What is your favorite flower?”

​People who think only of what they can take from this life, create an unsustainable future of increasing terror. 

People who think only of what they can give to this life, create abundance for all, generation after generation.

It’s about way more than lies being bad
Yet, we are wise to remember that lies of all sizes and orientations break healthy connections between people.

Pinocchio stories show how important it is to be real
As well as the perseverance it takes to be real in a world where fake is the dangerous norm.

Pinocchio stories also show how dangerous escapism is to being real
When we expend our energy on escapism, the world crumbles around us - and nothing could be more sad, because the world needs us.

Real People

• Real people do not fake their way through life.
• Real people do not hide their true feelings.
• Real people do not run from reality.
• Real people embrace the repairs always needed by reality.
• Real people love reality and make it the best it can be within realism (healthy) limits.
• Real people avoid unwittingly crossing the line into fake.
• Real people never fear speaking up about what is important to reality.
• Real people know that real ugly is a byproduct of uncaring people, not a byproduct of reality.

Real

• Real sings and dances its ass off - and needs no lessons.
• Real speaks its mind - and fears no repercussions.
• Real never lets go of the life-blood of a well-lived life: Curiosity.
• Real has an insatiable, respectful desire to learn and become better at being real.
• Real doesn’t want or need cookie cutter anything, because diversity is the best life has to offer!
• Real is the most wonderful place in the universe to be.