Seeing Past the Smoke

July 14, 2015 by Scott Todnem

Everything in moderation seems to be good advice for most things.

Eat in moderation, drink in moderation, work in moderation, sleep in moderation– dare it not be too much or too little. Dare you step out of the lines of life already drawn out for you. Moderation keeps people in a nice neat box. And because most people follow the rules, life and society exist in moderation.

Life continuously flows, day in and day out, sun up and sun down.

But nothing happens in moderation. Nothing. Inertia happens. It might keep life easy but nothing is changing or growing, it just rolls right along into the next day.

Always Waiting

June 26, 2015 by Scott Todnem

Time is an odd thing conceptually for me. Conventional wisdom would tell you that we should live in the present but we must constantly evaluate our past to process our present to secure our future. Time in general has a different context for everyone, from physicist to philosophers and spiritual advisers.

There is one constant truth no matter what your belief is on the subject. Time is finite for a living being and we all strive to do something important with it that makes us feel valuable.

Being Fooled By Expectation

May 07, 2015 by Scott Todnem

So many times in our lives we create ideas in our heads about how something should be.

We imagine how a certain situation would go down or what we expect from an action we take, how people should be reacting to something we do.

To be fooled means that you have been tricked or duped. To be a fool means you are deficient in judgement or wisdom. If one feels fooled, they will feel foolish, most likely to never to do that particular action again but depending on the action, I raise you a challenge: what if you just change your expectations?