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Ignore the Wilderness of How To
Every Step We Take Has How to Directions
There are thousands if not millions of messages on “how to” ranging from how to wash your face with the proper toothpaste, how to wring water from a dried up sponge, how to search for and find the pot of gold , how to castrate a golden monkey, how to make your own rainbow, how to walk in the steps of the great ones, how to greet the first aliens, how to take over the world, how to create a money tree, and how to dry petrified fossils. Do you get the picture?
Certainly, there is no point in suggesting that it would be wise to find out on your own how to be yourself. That would be grossly ineffective considering we are not in this world to live up to our expectations. We are here to be for everyone else whatever it is that they think we should be for them. (tongue in cheek)
I think the last time I asked someone else what to do I was told to do whatever I want — but — in their opinion it would be wise to turn left. And then when I turned left and asked for further direction, I was told to turn back the way I came and travel to the proverbial land of “You Cannot Lose” Hmm — I lost. But never mind, the power of positive thinking then put an invisible blanket on my lack of…