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Heraclitus (I think) said that ALL IS FLUX...some 2000+ years ago.

Most people, I think, have come to believe this, that THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE.

If that is true, than UNCERTAINTY, is an inescapeable part of life. It is unavoidable ; the very essence of life must be in its the unpredictable and the unintended twists and turns, the unforseen changes.

Therefore, unless we wish to be tossed about like so much flotsam on these waves of inescapeable change, we must place ourselves IN THE MIDST OF CHANGE. We must ride the current of change, rather than swim against it.

Ironically (and this is where the PARADOX part comes in) Risk-Taking is seen as going AGAINST the current, taking the hard road against higher odds.

In a world of CONSTANT CHANGE, however, a world where "WE CAN NEVER STEP INTO THE SAME RIVER TWICE"..... taking RISKS is actually just accepting this flow of change and aligning ourselves with it.....which, though we may SEE it as reckless endangernment, is the safest way to cope in an uncertain world.

To take a risk is to plunge into circumstances we cannot absolutely control, but the SAD FACT is that that those circumstances we actually CAN control and (what little AUTONOMY that control actually allows is) are so inisgnicant that it's hardy worth the effort.

so, in a world of constant change, RISK-TAKING is in truth a form of SAFETY, because it accepts this world for what it is.

CONVENTIONAL SAFETY is where the true DANGER lies, because it denies the world.

The sort of risks that put one in a position to control one's lot...are those that attempt tp add something of VALUE to the world.

So....paradoxically risk provides us with the greatest control over a changing world and maximises our chances of achieving a truly meaningful personal satisfaction.

and maybe saving those whales...

]]> ~nubesnegras http://nubesnegras.deviantart.com/journal/11720357/ http://nubesnegras.deviantart.com/journal/11720357/ Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:23:52 PST put away your praise and blame,
a glass can only spill what it contains!

Today I find myself struck by how we all try to seem more important than the next person, we try to compare and outdo on similiar grounds, when in truth none can be compared to another...

We are only that which is within us, amalgamations of all those inherent qualities we can't explain or justify, but which make us complete and unique.

I don't know.... I guess I'm just feeling that in order to experience true happiness and to approach fulfillment we need to start being wholly ourselves (cliche, I know) and ignore the expectations (and blame) others try to force upon us.... let our lives, in all their facets, speak of that which is within us...spill over the precious idiosyncrasies we all contain...

"the truth about conformity is it bites without a sting".

Oh, and I'm kinda annoyed that I somehow managed to add "mature content" to the details of my poems (I feel so inept)... they're not dirrrty, promise.

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AND THE LITTLE BELL AT THE TIP OF THE POINTY HAT IS:
I'm slowly slipping into my little land of dreams....

For all I know I've been in a coma for the past 17 years anyway.

Ooooh...something interesting I HAVE discoverd is that one can use the "Quantum Weather Butterfly Effect" theory to back-up just about any argument. Try it.

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And I've proven completely inept at submitting my deviations so far.

She will master it... she must.

Can't wait to leave stifling High-School and go to university....sweet, sweet escape (not like the Gwen Stefani song, yecch).

Yup. I am tired, and thus verbose and yet not very prolific right now.

My hyphen-key doesn't work. Wait, it just did. I need to lay off the chocolate-soy-milk (hyphenation again).

Will try to prove myself more pertinent in future entries.

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