That was the simple question asked to me by a colleague. Occasionally, trivia questions or the sort will be past around my office, I guess to muse or redirect focus from the mundane business of work. My answer was "time is abstract, it's based on the culture and it's people." In the back of my mind, I wanted to say time is also relative, but I was already being overly technical. I didn't want to go overboard and define it by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. If you don't look at the clock, your mind doesn't know what time it is because your brain doesn't keep track of counting upwards of one second, every time a second passes. If you were out in space or out in the jungle without a timing mechanism and your brain lost track of counting, you'd lose the exact time it is. And determining time by day then night with the sun or moon's positioning like a good mountain man is only an approximation.
Counting is a very basic function a normal brain does. The first person who applied counting to time, I guess you could consider the first philosopher to develop the calendar. Whether you're in a Roman or Lunar culture of calendar, the calendar started with seconds. Duh! you say to this basic concept: seconds leads into minutes and minutes leads into hours and hours leads into days, then weeks and years and so forth. But it started with applying counting in the concept of time.
Back to the original topic: my colleague said "you can't tell can you?" So basically what he is asking is how can you tell the Roman counting system applied to time passing in space? Without a counting mechanism or your mind having perfect counting and tracking it, the answer is no. Time is a system created and exist only in our minds based on a system. Time is based on a point of reference. They say dinosaurs existed thousands of years B.C. (Before Christ). Time is changed based on the region you are in. The United States has four time zones. It's 8:00am Eastern Time Zone as I am writing this right now, but in Dubai it's 4:00pm. Time can also be changed based on the season, Daylight Savings Time is coming to an end in a week.
Space can be established as another realm and depending how far out in space, in it one can detach from the system of time set in earth. Technically, without a timing mechanism (like a clock) or your brain tracking every second, you would not be able to tell what time it is. The only way would be to find a new method of counting upwards by one in seconds from that time you left earth to maintain the Roman time system. In that aspect, yes there is away to find out what time it is in space: only if you develop a new system to keep the region of time you are from in earth. The answer to the question: "How can you tell time in space?", is that you cannot if you don't have either a clock that still functions from earth, superior counting in your head or someone transmitting that time to you in space from earth. The yes to that question is if you develop a new system of timing away from earth's timing system. Hypothetically, if a new born wanted to find what time it was and he didn't have one of the above mentioned, he would not be able to find time on earth but he would be able to create his own timing system and even change the cycle of time, say counting up by two equals a minute. In the same concept, someone who is secluded in the jungle from civilization and decided to ignore societies time structure would have time totally eradicated. Say in the morning the volcano he sleeps under, because it's warmer there, vibrates at what our culture deems as 8:00am one morning and 8:30am the next morning, the outcast would still consider it 8:00am every morning as the volcano vibrates because he is ignoring societies time structure. The outcast could deem sleeping right when the sun sets, but sometimes during the season the sun sets at 6:00pm and others at 9:00pm, he would still deem sunset everyday at 6:00pm because he is ignoring the Roman time system. Not only is the answer to my colleague's question yes and no, but he asked a question not so simple to just answer yes or no because time is abstract and relative. Time in space does exist, it is just abstract like in any region in comparison and relative depending on the type of system you compare it to.
---I am employed, for now, so my timing system is relative to the time I leave work and counting upwards by one until my ass has to be at work the next morning deemed when my company says I have to be in. If I were unemployed work time wouldn't apply to my system of waking up because I wouldn't have that requirement to be at work at a certain time. My relativity to waking up in counting up by one in seconds would increase if I were unemployed. Einstein states it another way...
---"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein
---If you were in space a foot from the sun, based on how most time systems are set by the position of the sun, every second would be daylight and you could say every second is 6:00am. Every life span would be a second also because you'd be burnt up.
---Time is a very important system to epoch events in our culture, time determines change and how something can last, even in space. He asked a very valid question.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Incident Report
So, I missed September's post but it's October 1st, close enough. I'm going to update on an incident that occurred on September 4th, 2011. It was a quiet Sunday, no one around, when I walked outside from my house to my car. There was a scent in the air, the scent of marijuana. Whether it was coming from me is besides the point and will not be pointed out here due to refusing to self incriminate myself. It could not have been more than five minutes from lingering on my porch to getting in my car and sitting there for a minute. During that five minutes, I lit up on my porch and sat there a few minutes and finished it in my car, I think it was a cigarette, I think. It could have been a Bidi. I sat in my car for a minute, by the time I started my engine I see flashing lights behind me, guess who it is. Within thirty seconds I have one police officer on my left and another officer telling me to lower my back window on my right passenger side. I guess someone was around because the driver's side officer tells me someone reported it.
The police officer on my driver's side window on my left does not ask me for my license or registration, he just tells me to turn off the engine and to exit the car. He then ask me for my license when I am out of the car. I did not know at the time, but I am reading different statements that I have the right to not leave my car. But I am also reading that if an officer has suspicion of an illegal activity he does have that right to ask to exit the vehicle, that is if the officer sees an illegal item in your car out in the open, but the scent of marijuana? But who's to say it's from my car? None the less, I exited the vehicle and they pat me down. We are now standing on the back of my car and in front of the police car. While I am being asked questions by the officer on my driver's side door, the officer that was on my passenger side who asked me to lower my back window is now searching my car, which she leaves a mess. I was not prepared for any of this, this incident was the first time of this occurrence, but I was not nervous or scared, I just hoped they didn't arrest me. I answer the questions that the officer asks me. I know I have the right not to answer, "the right to remain silent". He asks me questions like do I live alone or do I have any outstanding warrants against me. I answer his questions and she's done searching my car. They go to the computer in their car, do a little search on my records and let me go. The final comment from the officer on my driver's side who was questioning me said: "Go home and do it on your own time". I drove off and got some food. After the incident: The question that come into mind is the search legal?
www.Legalzoom.com points out that yes, even though I read from other sources that it should not be, it was a legal search. I did notate the Precinct, Plate Numbers and Name of the officers stopping me. It is warranted as a legal search because the car does not require a search warrant. If the officer has a suspicion of illegal activity, they can. I guess even the scent of an illegal substance.
In Sturgis, South Dakota there is an annual event where thousands, and I don't mean one or two thousand, of motorcycle enthusiast and fanatics come to gather. It's a big event that bring all types. The other day they were showing a television show of how police officers handle and keep the peace during this huge event, they needed to recruit additional police personnel from outside departments. At random check points, a handful of these officers were questioning this driver at random. It showed that there was no smell, no open narcotics in plain sight, they just decided to pull him over and do a search. They do find marijuana in the car and they arrest him. Is this legal? It was depicted on television.
On September 23rd, 2011, an article by the news network NY1, written by Tetiana Anderson writes:
Know the law, especially if you tread on it.
-Most important lesson: If there is the scent of marijuana in the air, don't smoke anything, like a cigarette or a bidi in your car or outside. If you have any or over 25 grams in your house and plan to smoke it, don't smoke it in your house, any scent coming from your house and the neighbors report it can lead to a search. Over 25 grams will get you jail time.
-Home searches require a search warrant but based on any police suspicion car searches do not require a search warrant. If you're walking and the police suspect you, based on appearance, your look, or fishy activity it's enough for them to "suspect" and stop, then give you a pat down, which the court determines as not a search. A non-violation of the 4th Amendment which safe guards against unreasonable search and seizure, which is very court defined but when there is a uniform with a gun aggressively by active or verbal force demanding or insisting you to do something, you can plead law but a gun or abuse is in your face is another story.
What about those innocent or the low level marijuana users who use it for recreational purposes. What about the people that use it just to relax or use it to relieve pain. I was not arrested but I could have been if the officers stopping me had fount even a little bit of marijuana. I am not a criminal. I am not drug dealer. I don't steal. I have family. I work my 40 hours a week. I pay my taxes to feed your police salary.
Fuck off my Freedom.
The police officer on my driver's side window on my left does not ask me for my license or registration, he just tells me to turn off the engine and to exit the car. He then ask me for my license when I am out of the car. I did not know at the time, but I am reading different statements that I have the right to not leave my car. But I am also reading that if an officer has suspicion of an illegal activity he does have that right to ask to exit the vehicle, that is if the officer sees an illegal item in your car out in the open, but the scent of marijuana? But who's to say it's from my car? None the less, I exited the vehicle and they pat me down. We are now standing on the back of my car and in front of the police car. While I am being asked questions by the officer on my driver's side door, the officer that was on my passenger side who asked me to lower my back window is now searching my car, which she leaves a mess. I was not prepared for any of this, this incident was the first time of this occurrence, but I was not nervous or scared, I just hoped they didn't arrest me. I answer the questions that the officer asks me. I know I have the right not to answer, "the right to remain silent". He asks me questions like do I live alone or do I have any outstanding warrants against me. I answer his questions and she's done searching my car. They go to the computer in their car, do a little search on my records and let me go. The final comment from the officer on my driver's side who was questioning me said: "Go home and do it on your own time". I drove off and got some food. After the incident: The question that come into mind is the search legal?
www.Legalzoom.com points out that yes, even though I read from other sources that it should not be, it was a legal search. I did notate the Precinct, Plate Numbers and Name of the officers stopping me. It is warranted as a legal search because the car does not require a search warrant. If the officer has a suspicion of illegal activity, they can. I guess even the scent of an illegal substance.
In Sturgis, South Dakota there is an annual event where thousands, and I don't mean one or two thousand, of motorcycle enthusiast and fanatics come to gather. It's a big event that bring all types. The other day they were showing a television show of how police officers handle and keep the peace during this huge event, they needed to recruit additional police personnel from outside departments. At random check points, a handful of these officers were questioning this driver at random. It showed that there was no smell, no open narcotics in plain sight, they just decided to pull him over and do a search. They do find marijuana in the car and they arrest him. Is this legal? It was depicted on television.
On September 23rd, 2011, an article by the news network NY1, written by Tetiana Anderson writes:
In response to strong criticism, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an internal order Friday reiterating NYPD policy that an arrest shouldn't be executed if a person has a small amount of marijuana out of public view. NY1’s Tetiana Anderson filed the following report."
Amid complaints about improper arrests, the New York City Police Department is getting a fresh reminder on an old directive. Commissioner Ray Kelly told the city's nearly 35,000 officers that reading people their rights for possessing small amounts of marijuana is a no-no.
"Eight people out of ten probably have weed in their pockets, but it doesn't mean they're criminals. Newports, they're legal, but it's still a drug," says one New Yorker.
"Since 1994, NYPD has enacted stop and frisk practices,” said Cassandra Frederique of the Drug Policy Alliance. “One of the collateral consequences of that have been these marijuana arrests. Last year, there were over 50,000 arrests and most of them were, 84 percent were black and Latino. Seventy percent were under the age of 30."
Kelly reiterated existing department policy, saying officers should actually be issuing tickets for holding small amounts of marijuana that is not in public view.
The move comes after growing criticism of the NYPD from civil liberties and drug policy watchdog groups.
"We at the Drug Policy Alliance are really happy with the commissioner taking this step and asking his police force to follow the original intent of the law,” said Frederique.
And if they do, critics of the NYPD say it could result in tens of thousands fewer marijuana arrests annually, saving the city millions.
In a statement, City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., the chairman of the city's council on public safety committee said, "Commissioner Kelly's order strikes the proper balance between enforcing the law as passed by the legislature and allowing proper discretion."
Not everyone believes the directive will work.
"That's good, but they're still going to arrest people, ‘cause that's cops. They're gonna do what they do,” said one New Yorker.
The law says possessing 25 grams or less of pot is a non-criminal violation punishable by a fine, but smoking the drug in public or having it visible remains a crime."
Know the law, especially if you tread on it.
-Most important lesson: If there is the scent of marijuana in the air, don't smoke anything, like a cigarette or a bidi in your car or outside. If you have any or over 25 grams in your house and plan to smoke it, don't smoke it in your house, any scent coming from your house and the neighbors report it can lead to a search. Over 25 grams will get you jail time.
-Home searches require a search warrant but based on any police suspicion car searches do not require a search warrant. If you're walking and the police suspect you, based on appearance, your look, or fishy activity it's enough for them to "suspect" and stop, then give you a pat down, which the court determines as not a search. A non-violation of the 4th Amendment which safe guards against unreasonable search and seizure, which is very court defined but when there is a uniform with a gun aggressively by active or verbal force demanding or insisting you to do something, you can plead law but a gun or abuse is in your face is another story.
What about those innocent or the low level marijuana users who use it for recreational purposes. What about the people that use it just to relax or use it to relieve pain. I was not arrested but I could have been if the officers stopping me had fount even a little bit of marijuana. I am not a criminal. I am not drug dealer. I don't steal. I have family. I work my 40 hours a week. I pay my taxes to feed your police salary.
Fuck off my Freedom.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Virgin Mobile - LG Rumor Touch
The clam shell like phone, model Vx3400, was my very first cell phone on the Verizon network. Before that I had a pager aka beeper. Later on when I lost that I upgraded to the Vx6000. I dropped the Vx6000 at a Dave and Buster's and when I came back for it, it looked as if someone stepped on it. They were decent basic phones with basic applications and good speaker phones. The last phones on the Verizon network were the Palm Treo 650 and 750. I have then switched to Cingular-AT&T and T-Mobile. I've been through more than one iPhone and version 3, Blackberry 7230, Blackberry 8130 Pearls, World and Curves, used the Razr for a month and sold it, tinkered with the HTCs and Motorola Dash with Windows OS. There's so many others I laid hands on and used, hoping to grasp the PlayStation Portable (PSP) type media and data merger, while able to access the internet and make phone calls. When I finally quit my geek hunt for the most media all in one device in a cell phone, I decided to just go basic with a cheap Metro PCS phone, for two years unlimited calling had served me well until I lost my phone and didn't care to stay with Metro PCS any more because yes their data and calling usage plan are unlimited, but if the phone doesn't support it then what's the point, for the ones that did support data access you had to shell out approximately $300 for a crappy Metro PCS phone with a crappy browser or interface. At last the smartphones explosion...
I love the latest iPhones and the HTCs where you can do video conferencing. I love watching the great HD clarity of the World Series on the HD screen. I love the applications like the Angry Birds game, find the closest bar when you're on Amsterdam Avenue and 96th Street, tip calculator (because I am bad at it) and even the Budweiser ad where when the host of the party runs out of Budweiser, he loads his Budweiser app. and start pouring beer from his smartphone. This is like the beginning of the Star Trek replicator aboard the Enterprise, "There's an app. for that", "If you build it, he will come".
I switched to Virgin Mobile a year and a half ago and this is my second LG Rumor Touch because I either lost or someone stole it when I was in Europe, in which it does not work because Europe is mostly GSM and Sprint is a CDMA network. I got this phone when it was like two hundred something dollars, then after a few months they dropped the price to $149ish. This Dumbphone, non-Android, is a very versatile phone. I am reviewing it for anyone else going conservative, thinking about buying the LG Rumor Touch on the Sprint Virgin Mobile network.
As you can see, it slides to a nice keypad which allows me to text and type much faster. You can use it in it's closed position by touching the screen. I set my main screen list with the Main Menu as the first option which opens to another set of useful tools. The Contacts list is second in line then my Opera Mini browser and the Google Maps. Within Main Menu are your basic apps. like Notepad, Calculator, Stopwatch, Alarm, Facebook/Twitter login apps., Camera/Camcorder, Media Player, an app to find how many minutes are left and some other minor apps. You don't have access to an extensive apps library, they only give you some cheap entertainment or music selections. If you want a smartphone, go with one of their Android phones. This phone has the following:
--Mini USB Slot on the bottom
--MicroSD Slot
--Headphone Jack
--Quick Volume Up and Down on side
--Quick Camera button
--Charge time is short and it can last close to two days with minimum use
--The price is right: $25 Plus Tax at the end of each month for $27ish for 300 minutes and unlimited data is nice. If you run out of minutes, you just add more. You can change to an upgraded plan at the end of every month.
--Unlimited Data: So far I've been able to text, email, YouTube music, surf the web, check my email on a daily basis with very minimum connection issues. The Opera Mini browser is very clear and very good. I get pictures fine and people can email mynumber@virginserver.com and I'll get the email to my phone. I can update this blog with limited words on the phone.
--The volume and clarity in talking over the phone is good, no what or what did you say? No speaker phone. It includes Bluetooth for hands free.
--The Google Maps works great, I have a GPS device but sometimes I don't bring it with me. This app. helps when I get lost in Long Island and New Jersey. This Google Maps application you can download free dots where I am and points an arrow to the direction as I am moving street by street. It also traces a pink line for the best From Address to the To address. The zoom in and zoom out takes a while to load but which GPS device doesn't? One night I was in Paramus, NJ and was stuck on the highway for 20 minutes waiting for the map to load, some Data Error, scared me because without a map I was stuck, it's good to have this but a separate GPS unit or a map as backup keeps you moving in the right direction.
--Each contact has a field for extra info like address or memo and you can add a picture for that contact or set a specific ring tone for that Contact.
--The Camcorder is okay but if someone is robbing a bank and you're filming it, it won't help the Police very much. If you're trying to take a picture of a license plate from more than a feet away, you better take out a pen and paper also.
Problems: The only problem I have with the phone is sometimes it will freeze, like as I use Mini Opera and a text comes in, sometimes it will freeze and I have to reboot to read the text then go back and reload Mini Opera. Other times I will close the open keypad and it will just reboot by itself. Those are two minor problems that I have had that delays me a minute but it doesn't affect data or information, no biggie.
I love the latest iPhones and the HTCs where you can do video conferencing. I love watching the great HD clarity of the World Series on the HD screen. I love the applications like the Angry Birds game, find the closest bar when you're on Amsterdam Avenue and 96th Street, tip calculator (because I am bad at it) and even the Budweiser ad where when the host of the party runs out of Budweiser, he loads his Budweiser app. and start pouring beer from his smartphone. This is like the beginning of the Star Trek replicator aboard the Enterprise, "There's an app. for that", "If you build it, he will come".
I switched to Virgin Mobile a year and a half ago and this is my second LG Rumor Touch because I either lost or someone stole it when I was in Europe, in which it does not work because Europe is mostly GSM and Sprint is a CDMA network. I got this phone when it was like two hundred something dollars, then after a few months they dropped the price to $149ish. This Dumbphone, non-Android, is a very versatile phone. I am reviewing it for anyone else going conservative, thinking about buying the LG Rumor Touch on the Sprint Virgin Mobile network.
--Mini USB Slot on the bottom
--MicroSD Slot
--Headphone Jack
--Quick Volume Up and Down on side
--Quick Camera button
--Charge time is short and it can last close to two days with minimum use
--The price is right: $25 Plus Tax at the end of each month for $27ish for 300 minutes and unlimited data is nice. If you run out of minutes, you just add more. You can change to an upgraded plan at the end of every month.
--Unlimited Data: So far I've been able to text, email, YouTube music, surf the web, check my email on a daily basis with very minimum connection issues. The Opera Mini browser is very clear and very good. I get pictures fine and people can email mynumber@virginserver.com and I'll get the email to my phone. I can update this blog with limited words on the phone.
--The volume and clarity in talking over the phone is good, no what or what did you say? No speaker phone. It includes Bluetooth for hands free.
--The Google Maps works great, I have a GPS device but sometimes I don't bring it with me. This app. helps when I get lost in Long Island and New Jersey. This Google Maps application you can download free dots where I am and points an arrow to the direction as I am moving street by street. It also traces a pink line for the best From Address to the To address. The zoom in and zoom out takes a while to load but which GPS device doesn't? One night I was in Paramus, NJ and was stuck on the highway for 20 minutes waiting for the map to load, some Data Error, scared me because without a map I was stuck, it's good to have this but a separate GPS unit or a map as backup keeps you moving in the right direction.
--Each contact has a field for extra info like address or memo and you can add a picture for that contact or set a specific ring tone for that Contact.
--The Camcorder is okay but if someone is robbing a bank and you're filming it, it won't help the Police very much. If you're trying to take a picture of a license plate from more than a feet away, you better take out a pen and paper also.
Photo of myself in the office.
Problems: The only problem I have with the phone is sometimes it will freeze, like as I use Mini Opera and a text comes in, sometimes it will freeze and I have to reboot to read the text then go back and reload Mini Opera. Other times I will close the open keypad and it will just reboot by itself. Those are two minor problems that I have had that delays me a minute but it doesn't affect data or information, no biggie.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Atypical
This is the term I often give myself because that is a fact in behavior, not so much intentional, just built that way. I mostly had a normal upbringing; I was never abused or anything like that.
There are people that blend into society and are against anything out of the norm. There are those that try so hard to fit into society and fit into the mold that if perfection isn't there, they freak out or ask why and how. Oh, why me, is God doing this or maybe I should find a four leaf clover. The question is why can't people accept diversity?
People don't get married and that's fine, that's their choice. People get tattoos and quarters pierced into their tongues and that's fine, it's their choice. The government allows same sex marriages and that's fine.
My belief is that my beliefs are my beliefs. I am also open to the beliefs of others and listen even if their beliefs may dawn slightly on the opposition of my beliefs. I'm going to give examples. A very controversial topic is homosexuality. My initial reaction to seeing two men together in a sexual or romantic activity is: no that should not be happening, it's just not right in I'm going to look away. It's just something the inate reaction built into my head. It's my right to have this opinion. However, I don't dislike or criticize gay men. They have the very right to be who they are. I would never bash or insult anyone gay. I have no problem with the activist of their preference advocating for their rights. The government allowing same sex marriages impose on me in no way, two gay married people is fine by me. The problem would occur if I mandatory had to change my view in that two men together is against my innate or upbringing sexual beliefs. I can accept your freedom to be who you are, so my freedom to believe what I believe should also stand even if it's against your beliefs. Just like the KKK, my belief is that they have the right to hate African Americans. The KKK have the right to hate me for all they want for being Chinese. I believe that's their given right to assemble and have their ideas because it's freedom to do so. I don't believe in racism, but if racism means freedom, then I am fine with it as long as it's not physically imposed on others. What I mean is that the Ku Klux Klan members can parade around in their hoods and stir racial tension that's fine but anything physical imposed act is breaching on beliefs and freedom. It's like a homosexual person came up to me and said I had to be gay or I have to think their way and find it to my liking.
Intentionally or unintentionally, people tend to cause a rip on the normal map. There are those that go against rules or life's guidelines. It's great that the activist of their kind take bold measures to spread the word so it's not such a shock where diversity isn't accepted or open.
There are people that blend into society and are against anything out of the norm. There are those that try so hard to fit into society and fit into the mold that if perfection isn't there, they freak out or ask why and how. Oh, why me, is God doing this or maybe I should find a four leaf clover. The question is why can't people accept diversity?
People don't get married and that's fine, that's their choice. People get tattoos and quarters pierced into their tongues and that's fine, it's their choice. The government allows same sex marriages and that's fine.
My belief is that my beliefs are my beliefs. I am also open to the beliefs of others and listen even if their beliefs may dawn slightly on the opposition of my beliefs. I'm going to give examples. A very controversial topic is homosexuality. My initial reaction to seeing two men together in a sexual or romantic activity is: no that should not be happening, it's just not right in I'm going to look away. It's just something the inate reaction built into my head. It's my right to have this opinion. However, I don't dislike or criticize gay men. They have the very right to be who they are. I would never bash or insult anyone gay. I have no problem with the activist of their preference advocating for their rights. The government allowing same sex marriages impose on me in no way, two gay married people is fine by me. The problem would occur if I mandatory had to change my view in that two men together is against my innate or upbringing sexual beliefs. I can accept your freedom to be who you are, so my freedom to believe what I believe should also stand even if it's against your beliefs. Just like the KKK, my belief is that they have the right to hate African Americans. The KKK have the right to hate me for all they want for being Chinese. I believe that's their given right to assemble and have their ideas because it's freedom to do so. I don't believe in racism, but if racism means freedom, then I am fine with it as long as it's not physically imposed on others. What I mean is that the Ku Klux Klan members can parade around in their hoods and stir racial tension that's fine but anything physical imposed act is breaching on beliefs and freedom. It's like a homosexual person came up to me and said I had to be gay or I have to think their way and find it to my liking.
Intentionally or unintentionally, people tend to cause a rip on the normal map. There are those that go against rules or life's guidelines. It's great that the activist of their kind take bold measures to spread the word so it's not such a shock where diversity isn't accepted or open.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Game of Thrones
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Hindsight
The definition of the word Hindsight from several sources describe it as realizing the significance of an event that just occurred. Including "possibilities or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence."
Sometimes when something happens to us, we are inexperienced, unprepared or unequipped to handle the situation. Sometimes you cannot adapt in time to respond to the occurrence. An example is a near death or catastrophic event that happened abruptly. Another example is if we make a decision that was wrong and it caused something bad to happen. Or it could be just a student who has just performed or acted on something and wonders after the performance or the action if they did well. Hindsight, the worst enemy of an insecure teen or worrywart. We'll think back to that decision or event and we will question or reflect on it. The question is will we plan or prepare ourselves for the next time it happens? One of my closest friends told me: "to fix a problem you have to have the right tools, right?". We forget things sometimes also, but if the impact of that event is so strong or important enough to be addressed, we normally will be prepared next time.
Sometimes when something happens to us, we are inexperienced, unprepared or unequipped to handle the situation. Sometimes you cannot adapt in time to respond to the occurrence. An example is a near death or catastrophic event that happened abruptly. Another example is if we make a decision that was wrong and it caused something bad to happen. Or it could be just a student who has just performed or acted on something and wonders after the performance or the action if they did well. Hindsight, the worst enemy of an insecure teen or worrywart. We'll think back to that decision or event and we will question or reflect on it. The question is will we plan or prepare ourselves for the next time it happens? One of my closest friends told me: "to fix a problem you have to have the right tools, right?". We forget things sometimes also, but if the impact of that event is so strong or important enough to be addressed, we normally will be prepared next time.
Some people are stuck on not evolving, like they will address an issue with aggression. They will address an issue with the same straight forward way of thinking. They won't address the problem with a strategy, even when it has occurred many times before, not thinking outside the box. I admit I think this way sometimes and it's probably the reason I am writing about it.
I read a book a few years ago. I forget the title or author and the precise way he described the subject "thinking in the now". In the book, one of the topics describes how people are not really focused on the world that goes on around them in the immediate present. The immediate present will have sporadic changes in one's life. If you're not focused on those changes and focused on the basic routine of life, you will be unequipped to handle the unknown possibilities, causing unknown decisions that will cause hindsight depending the level it impacts you. You drive your car to work 261 days, minus holidays and time off, a year and it's the same routine. Nothing major ever happens in five years. The only changes might be today there is less traffic than yesterday and you're behind a blue Ford Pickup instead of a Black Prius. You're following the same routine day in and day out until one day a plank of wood slams into your front windshield from a transport truck in front of you. What changes could have you made to have not have that happen, maybe you should have changed lanes when you saw that huge vehicle in front of you? Your decision to slam on the brakes, at 55 Miles Per Hour, causes the driver behind you to end up in the Emergency Room in critical condition. A week passes and the man is still in the Emergency Room.
Being overly focused on routine and the abrupt change in routine caused an impulsive decision, why not swerve to your left or right instead? The other two scenarios are our focuses are too much on the future and past. People focus to much on the future, get things done, get to our destination, or get to our goal, time is not taken to deal with the changes that take place during the destination. People strive so hard to make their plans work out that they don't adapt to the current changes in the plan. The other scenario is that someone will be so fixated on what has occurred in the past that maybe in a post traumatic way they react and think that an event that is happening now will turn out the same as it did back then, distracting them from the fact that they can do things differently. It's logical that we learn from your mistakes and plan today for our future but that's not thinking in the immediate present, being adaptive, that's planning. Sometimes decisions or actions you need to make comes without plans, you have to react on impulse and hopefully your brain is fast enough to respond properly on the spot. It's great to plan but changes in the plan need quick responses to prevent looking back on bad decisions or wonder if you made the right act. You can only plan so much for an event sometimes. I guess being attentive, having a quick and logical response is a very important thing in preventing hindsight.
Time definitely plays a role in the outcome of a response that will cause looking back on. How much time do you have to react and make the quick decision for things to turn out right or react properly to the malfunction in the plan. Can you make the decision or react in a split second when you have a superheroes decision to save a baby or one hundred people that are handicapped?
If you could look back and change one bad event in your life, which would it be? You can't, so don't think about it too much, you grow from it. Learn to improve on it the next time it happens or try to adapt faster to events that have yet to teach you a lesson, "think on your toes" when you have no experience in dealing with the issue.
Being overly focused on routine and the abrupt change in routine caused an impulsive decision, why not swerve to your left or right instead? The other two scenarios are our focuses are too much on the future and past. People focus to much on the future, get things done, get to our destination, or get to our goal, time is not taken to deal with the changes that take place during the destination. People strive so hard to make their plans work out that they don't adapt to the current changes in the plan. The other scenario is that someone will be so fixated on what has occurred in the past that maybe in a post traumatic way they react and think that an event that is happening now will turn out the same as it did back then, distracting them from the fact that they can do things differently. It's logical that we learn from your mistakes and plan today for our future but that's not thinking in the immediate present, being adaptive, that's planning. Sometimes decisions or actions you need to make comes without plans, you have to react on impulse and hopefully your brain is fast enough to respond properly on the spot. It's great to plan but changes in the plan need quick responses to prevent looking back on bad decisions or wonder if you made the right act. You can only plan so much for an event sometimes. I guess being attentive, having a quick and logical response is a very important thing in preventing hindsight.
Time definitely plays a role in the outcome of a response that will cause looking back on. How much time do you have to react and make the quick decision for things to turn out right or react properly to the malfunction in the plan. Can you make the decision or react in a split second when you have a superheroes decision to save a baby or one hundred people that are handicapped?
If you could look back and change one bad event in your life, which would it be? You can't, so don't think about it too much, you grow from it. Learn to improve on it the next time it happens or try to adapt faster to events that have yet to teach you a lesson, "think on your toes" when you have no experience in dealing with the issue.
Pain
Urgayle: "Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?
It let's you know you're not dead"
G.I. Jane (1997)
I saw that movie years ago, loved it, and again a few months ago. That analogy on pain stuck on my memory, which is something I feel less and less sensitive to everyday. I've dealt with nothing but pain from physical to psychological, yet fight it everyday. My analogy on pain, is that if you view it as a non-bad thing, it builds character on reacting to initial emotional responses, hence makes a person less sensitive. Changing your perspective on pain sustains and fortifies you. Like the quote above, unless you're bleeding heavily or have a limb mangled up, then that's not good pain, because then you are physically injured. It tells you to stop, rest, get aide! Your body tells you the level you can handle. But the pain that doesn't do that and you can recover from does make you stronger. Psychologically, it will take you away from being humanly normal, how far it takes you and how far it will take you to come back is another question. I always like to forgive but believe forgetting is stupid.
You can respect another person more when you not only can see yourself in their position but nothing like going through their ordeal to show empathy or understanding. The other day, I went paintballing again and it hurt but not from getting hit with paintballs. What hurt was running around for a few hours with all that gear carrying a gun with a tank and accessories weighing around ten to twelve pounds. Yes I got some good kills in but also got shot up when I notice my muscles aren't as flexible as they used to be. This little teenager was moving fast and without agile restraint. I guess that's why the military recruit from High School. When they say show love for the troops, I can definitely understand that because I felt a tiny experience of the roughness they go through. As I was entering the field ready for paint flying at about 260 feet per second combat, I was imagining what it felt like to be a soldier in the military. They have to wear all that gear, the mask blocks vision and clear focus but they need to wear it because it protects them. Those soldiers have to aim properly, be fit and make sure they evade those bullets, because it's not paint hitting them, it's a one time end game hitting them. It's not easy hiding behind something because even hiding behind something the opposite team advances, repositions themselves or can outflank your team. I must have gotten shot in the head again this game, taste that bitter paint and have a few brown marks to show in the leg and ribs. At least it wasn't as bad as last time. Boot camp and staying tough is important to a soldier, hence why drill sergeants aren't lenient, soldiers have to be use to the pain, otherwise they will lose composure under extreme or hostile circumstances, painful circumstances.
It let's you know you're not dead"
G.I. Jane (1997)
I saw that movie years ago, loved it, and again a few months ago. That analogy on pain stuck on my memory, which is something I feel less and less sensitive to everyday. I've dealt with nothing but pain from physical to psychological, yet fight it everyday. My analogy on pain, is that if you view it as a non-bad thing, it builds character on reacting to initial emotional responses, hence makes a person less sensitive. Changing your perspective on pain sustains and fortifies you. Like the quote above, unless you're bleeding heavily or have a limb mangled up, then that's not good pain, because then you are physically injured. It tells you to stop, rest, get aide! Your body tells you the level you can handle. But the pain that doesn't do that and you can recover from does make you stronger. Psychologically, it will take you away from being humanly normal, how far it takes you and how far it will take you to come back is another question. I always like to forgive but believe forgetting is stupid.
You can respect another person more when you not only can see yourself in their position but nothing like going through their ordeal to show empathy or understanding. The other day, I went paintballing again and it hurt but not from getting hit with paintballs. What hurt was running around for a few hours with all that gear carrying a gun with a tank and accessories weighing around ten to twelve pounds. Yes I got some good kills in but also got shot up when I notice my muscles aren't as flexible as they used to be. This little teenager was moving fast and without agile restraint. I guess that's why the military recruit from High School. When they say show love for the troops, I can definitely understand that because I felt a tiny experience of the roughness they go through. As I was entering the field ready for paint flying at about 260 feet per second combat, I was imagining what it felt like to be a soldier in the military. They have to wear all that gear, the mask blocks vision and clear focus but they need to wear it because it protects them. Those soldiers have to aim properly, be fit and make sure they evade those bullets, because it's not paint hitting them, it's a one time end game hitting them. It's not easy hiding behind something because even hiding behind something the opposite team advances, repositions themselves or can outflank your team. I must have gotten shot in the head again this game, taste that bitter paint and have a few brown marks to show in the leg and ribs. At least it wasn't as bad as last time. Boot camp and staying tough is important to a soldier, hence why drill sergeants aren't lenient, soldiers have to be use to the pain, otherwise they will lose composure under extreme or hostile circumstances, painful circumstances.
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