Sometimes silence can be more powerful than the most reasoned of arguments.
People don’t have to be bad to scunner you. (scunner: to piss off)
Some people assume, don’t think, show no care or consideration, don’t check and then they can’t understand why you get upset with their behaviour.
What do they expect with their blinkered view of the world?
Why do you want a qualification?
The education systems throughout the world appear geared up to produce people with qualifications that suit or more often these days suited the needs of industry in the past rather than the needs of the learner today.
Even industry complains about the mismatch of qualifications to their needs.
And how useful is a qualification? It will help you get your first job and even then it might not be that useful.
There are too many vested interests, gatekeepers, who will try to convince you that you need their qualification and charge you a substantial fee, in some cases in excess of £30,000 ($50,000) for the privilege of working yourself to the bone and passing their exams. They convince you that their degree or whatever has more status than some other institution’s.
The system and common accepted views all support this perception BUT how true is it in an objective way?
Are you getting value for money?
Are the days of conventional credentials coming to an end?
Credentials versus ability. Some one can have credentials but have no ability and someone can have high ability and no credentials.
Which one do you want?
It seems like every one in the world has something to say, but…
Every one has something to say but how many want to hear or read those words. Reading can seem like so much hard work.
So much noise and it can swamp the great as effectively as the insignificant. A lucky few (relatively) rise above the background noise and generate an audience. The rest exercise their typing skills to no avail.
If only we could automatically detect the gold from the dross. Google, you think, might help but it does not do sophisticated semantical searches where meaning rather than character strings are matched. Too bad.
This is a ramble on how I think and feel.
Success is the holy grail to which we are expected to aspire. Be successful; realise your ambitions; have, set, and commit to our goals; be all you can be.
And could it boil down to something as simple as BE. You BE.
Out of being comes the experience of internal and external senses. Judgements arrived at and opinion formed, but with the realisation that everything is a head game.
How open are you to the influence of others and to what extent are you guilty of trying to be that really influential person.
We are unique yet some strive to be members of one or more tribes. Religion, politics, fashion, sports as spectators, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. We can be obsessive members. We think that the tribe will protect us, but it can end up controlling us, and not to our benefit.
What’s up with me?
It’s too bad that I am the way I am. It’s a curse and a blessing. I have too many interests and I have too many interests. The blessing and curse as one.
What is Hint Fiction?
hint fiction (n) : a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story – Robert Swartwood
That’s the definition as given by one of the leading lights of modern ultra short fiction. Does it go far enough? Possibly.
Hint fiction is not a posing of a what-if? question. It’s the barest of bones of a story; beginning, middle, and end. An oft quoted example is by Ernest Hemingway – For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. A tale of death, sorrow, and moving on, perhaps. You have to fill in the blanks.
It means the reader has to do more work than with most other fiction. The piece therefore becomes a joint creative effort; the writer and the reader in the most intimate relationship of shared thought.
This Lowrider is Already Broken – A talk by Noah Levine from Against the Stream
Noah Levine is a Buddhist Teacher working within the American Theravaden Tradition. I have found his talk entitled ‘This Lowrider is Already Broken’ very uplifting. It puts forward the position that even when a child is born you know that it will die as you will and that fancy new smart-phone or car or whatever will brake. Every living being will eventually die. Every thing will brake. The universality of impermanence, that is change, is the only certainty we have. So we should enjoy those moments in life and the pleasures we can get from our artefacts, knowing that one day they will be gone, and one day we, our friends, our children and on and on, will be gone.
Take joy in the moment.
Live now not in the past or the future.
NOW
Hint Fiction #23
Stop talking now. She would never ask again. The gunshot resounded through the mall. Even though it was full there wasn’t a single witness.
Hint Fiction #22
You have a choice. You always have a choice. It might not seem that way, but even a prisoner on death row has a choice.