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What is Happening to Us, Guys?

In Uncategorized on 07/30/2012 at 2:29 am

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We tend to stop talking and forget looking at each other’s faces…Every passing day, we keep retreating deeper into our hideouts…What’s more interesting is the high tech gadgets are to blame for that!

This morning I started my day with a smile and a positive look on my face…Last night, I have parked my car on the street in my neighborhood. Today, I had to find another good spot to park it since it was “a street cleaning day” for its current spot. Anyway, putting it shortly, my arrogant smile lost its place to an angry state once I saw the traffic ticket squeezed between the wiper and windshield of my beloved car.

I let out a curse as I was helpless and pissed off. I put the ticket on the other one resting in my car’s compartment which I got last week. Life is sometimes so mean. Under that depressed mood, I took the subway train. I have found a sitting space and pulled up my smart phone (that’s what they call it; but I doubt that!).

I started checking tweets and some rss feeds that I’m subscribed to. No wonder that it’s the thing I do each and every morning….Hold on…”each and every morning” I said? That’s true that’s exactly what I said…On my sitting space, I have done something totally new on the train today…I have rolled my eyes up and looks at other people on the train. There should be other people on the train as well, right? But, how am I supposed to know it?…I never look around on the train thanks to my gadget.

Guess what I saw…OK. I’m telling you…Almost everybody was looking at their smarties just like the way I keep doing…Almost everybody was so busy with their phones or ipads or kindles or so whatever. What the heck is going on? We humans shut ourselves down and live in our cells…More weird we call it “individual freedom”? It’s ironical everybody is into facebooking or tweeting on a “social communication” motive while they de-socialize themselves (including me) in their daily lives. And this is something, buddy. ..Really something. We are so involved in high-tech revolution that we started losing our regular social behavior patterns.

For example, we talk to others way less than we had done 5 years or 10 years back. On the other hand we are texting or messaging more and more by each passing day. Our mouth began to stay close while our fingers are racing on a keyboard. Oh by the way, I used the word “almost” since only a young girl was in disregard of this social fact and she was having fun looking at others around. For a moment, our looks bumped and smiled at each other. I believed she found this tragicomic situation way fun for herself.

Imagine for a moment…you are working among separting panels in your work environment..you hardly see other co-workers and all you doo is looking at your scrren for 8 hours a day. Next, you quit the office and walk to the subway station (the only walking time we keep for our private lives during any day).

On your walk, you feel so curios about the expected messages on you circle of friends you even keep your eyes on your phone screen ir order not to miss new messages. O’ la’la….you are home…what…but I was supposed to be on the subway before the house. Yes you were! Dumb Dumb…But you were so focused on your screen that you did not even notice you had a social event-that is a subway trip- and eventually, you wound up in your home (Please note I just noticed I mean we by giving examples using the word you…I guess I try to keep myself off the blame) Do you know what it’s called?

It’s a typical “Social Isolation.” In other words, we are getting more and more recluse. You can say you are in contact with other through your cell phone (yes, this fact could sound a bit relieving). However, is it really an equivalent replacement a genuine physical social activity? I really doubt that. When was the last time you said you volunteered for any job in a social gathering?

This issue needs a lot of talk. Please send me your message on what you think on it. I want to repeat what’s on my mind. We humans should give our time to talk, to laugh with others in our communities. Listening is a great way of communicating to others. Once somebody listens to me, I feel respect to that person. Maybe mingling with other people might give us a chance to help someone…Yes…this is one of my sacred words in my social vocabulary. It’s same like “to give away”…Nothing makes me feel so happier once I see the smile on the face of someone I tried to help with…

There is an interesting story taken from the book Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul and based on a true story which quoted from an article in Arizona newspaper in 1985, about a call for action to save others.

Bob Butler lost both his legs because of mine explosion during the Vietnam war in 1965. He returned as a war hero. Twenty years later, he proved that heroism comes from the heart. One day in summer, Butler was working in the garage in a small town in Arizona. At that moment he heard a woman screaming hysterically from the back of his neighbor’s house. He pedaled his wheelchair into the house and headed to the backyard. But there is a locked fence that does not allow the wheelchair to pass.

The veteran then got out of the chair, jumps over the fence with both hands and crawled through the bushes and grass as soon as possible. “I shall soon get there,” he said. “No matter whether it will be painful and hurt my body.”

When Butler arrived at the back of the house, he followed the screams had come to the pool, where there is a three-year-old daughter lying on the bottom of the pond. The boy was born with no arms, fell into a swimming pool and could not swim. Her mother stood at the edge of the pool, yelling hysterically.

Butler immediately dive to the bottom of the pool and brought Stephanie out. His face was blue, there was no heartbeat and no breathing. Butler immediately give artificial respiration when Stephanie’s mother called the fire department (911). She said all the firefighters are out on duty, and no officer in the office. With no hope, she cried and hugged Butler’s shoulders.

While continuing to give artificial respiration, Butler calm Stephanie’s mother. “Do not worry,” he said. “I’ve become his hand to take him out of the pool. He’ll be fine. Now I’m into her lungs. Together we will get through.”

Two minutes later the little girl coughed, regained consciousness and began to cry. As they hugged each other and give thanks, Stephanie’s mother asked how Butler know everything will be solved properly. “When both my legs in the Vietnam War exploded, I was alone in the middle of the field,” Butler said.

“No one wants to come to help, except a young Vietnamese woman. With difficulty she dragged my body to the village, and she whispered with his bad English, ‘Everything is OK. You can live. I became your feet. Together we can get through it all. ‘ ” “Right now my turn,” said Butler told to Stephanie’s mother, “To reply all that I have received.”

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Or, Are Coincidences Not Coincidences ?

In Uncategorized on 07/30/2012 at 2:04 am

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Do you believe coincidences are meaningful signs in life? For my part, I’m confused and divided about that. On the other hand, more and more people believe that there are no coincidences; but creations of our mental powers.

As an instance of coincidence, the following is really impressive: “On July 28th 1900, the King of Italy Umberto I was having dinner in a restaurant in the city of Monza. It turned out later that the restaurant’s owner looked identical to the king. The restaurant owner’s name was Umberto, his wife’s name was the same as the queen’s and the restaurant was opened on the same date as the king’s inauguration. The Restaurant-owner Umberto was shot dead the next day.So was King Umberto.” (Reference: Dailycognition.com)

That’s really interesting to me. These days I’m looking through some books and websites dealing with this topic. I want to share with you whatever I have at my hand here. If you contribute to this discussion with your comments here, I’d be grateful.

According to Quantum-self.com; “Nothing really happens “by chance.” We actually CREATE what we call <<coincidence.>> When does coincidence happen in our lives? Stop and think about it. When you are focused on something and it has a priority in your life, little coincidences just seem to occur. This is often said to be the Law of Attraction in action. This works no matter what you’re focused on. If you’re focused on worry and fear, or anger and frustration — you will see *coincidence events* reflecting what you are worried about. Worry is actually negative goal setting.

The classic example is someone who is looking for success, but just can’t achieve their goals. They might be focused on their goal, and that seems like a good thing. But their unconscious mind might be filled to overflowing with negative thoughts and beliefs. So what happens? They create negative *coincidence events* that sabotage their efforts. Self-defeating situations are inevitable when your mind is focused focus on fear, worry, or the concept of being somehow limited. Negative outcomes don’t just happen in our lives. They occur when we refuse to pay attention to warning signs of a probable negative outcome. The same is true for the Law of Attraction.”

By the summary of the topic above, our minds and focusing power can help turning our wishes come true unless we avoid thinking of negative aspects and keeping clear of our worries. Wow, that looks like secret to success in life, huh? Like I said earlier, One part of me says it makes sense(our mind power’s positive transformation ability);another part keeps saying;

”C’mon…if everything were so easy by mental power, life would be a care-free and easier for everybody. But, look around you…Wars and conflicts all around the world tend to escalate…So this mental power thing is off the reality, man!” By the way, did you notice that my second part plays the part of creator of negative outcomes? So this theory actually seems to be true…If I listen to my second (negative) side, I will not be able to avoid my fears and worries…and..consequently, the results of my decisions will turn out to be negative ones; However, if I can clear my mind of my negative side; so I will be able to make it!. Now let’s try to find out some proofs to support it. Focus on thinking of something you really wanted to attain to or you really wanted to have?

For me, I can say I wanted to be rich in the past (No I did not give it up, I still want it 🙂 ) Eventually, I could not be rich. So that means I had negative results of the decisions I made. In other words, I could not focus on the positive mind thinking; but I gave in to worries or negatives assumptions.

A guy might want to marry the girl he has crush on. If he can do it, he is a god positive mind thinker (If not, he’s a scaredy cat!) When we look back in history, we see way interesting coincidences (or non-coincidences for others).

For example; “The British actor Anthony Hopkins [who shot to fame as Hannibal Lecter] was delighted to hear that he had landed a leading role in a film based on the book The Girl From Petrovka by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins travelled to London to buy a copy of the book. He tried several bookshops, but there wasn’t one to be had. Waiting at Leicester Square underground for his train home, he noticed a book apparently discarded on a bench. Incredibly, it was The Girl From Petrovka. That in itself would have been coincidence enough but in fact it was merely the beginning of an extraordinary chain of events. Two years later, in the middle of filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author. Feifer mentioned that he did not have a copy of his own book. He had lent the last one – containing his own annotations – to a friend who had lost it somewhere in London. With mounting astonishment, Hopkins handed Feifer the book he had found. ‘Is this the one?’ he asked, ‘with the notes scribbled in the margins?’ It was the same book. “ (Reference: Dailycognition.com)

What do you think of this thing Mr.Hopkines experienced. Could all these happenings called “mere coincidences”? Let’s continue real life example below:

“A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the fields of Flanders in February 1918 was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning and paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, as he fished alongside a river, lightning hit the tree he was sitting under and paralyzed his right side. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered that he was able to take walks in a local park. He was walking there one summer day in 1930 when a lightning bolt smashed into him, permanently paralyzing him. He died two years later. But lightning sought him out one last time. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck a cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. The deceased buried here? Major Summerford. “(Reference: Dailycognition.com) And one last example: Lincoln and J.F. Kennedy

Both presidents had 7 letters in their last name.

Both were over 6′ feet tall.

Both men studied law.

Both seemed to have lazy eye muscles, which would sometimes cause one to deviate.

Both suffered from genetic diseases. It is suspected that Lincoln had Marfan’s disease, and Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease.

Both served in the military. Lincoln was a scout captain in the Black Hawk War, and Kennedy served as a navy lieutenant in World War II.

Both were boat captains. Lincoln was a skipper for the Talisman, a Mississippi River boat, and Kennedy was skipper of the PT 109.

Both had no fear of their mortality and disdained bodyguards.

Both often stated how easy it would be to shoot the president. Lincoln supposedly said, “If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do to prevent it.” Kennedy supposedly said “If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it.” Note that both these quotes are each 16 words long.

Both presidents were shot in the head, on a Friday.

Both were seated beside their wives when shot. Neither Mrs. Lincoln nor Mrs. Kennedy was injured. Both wives held the bullet-torn heads of their husbands.

In each case, the man was injured but not fatally. Major Henry Rathbone was slashed by a knife, and Governor John Connolly was shot.

Lincoln sat in Box 7 at Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy rode in car 7 in the Dallas motorcade.

Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Ford product, a Lincoln limousine.

Both assassins used three names: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald. (It should be noted that Lee Harvey Oswald was known as just Lee Oswald prior to the assassination.)

There are 15 letters in each assassin’s name.

Both assassins struck when in their mid-twenties. Booth was born in 1838, and Oswald was born in 1939.” (Reference: Dailycognition.com)

How come could so many coincidences occur for those two people? If this theory is true, so why do people prefer on negative-minded thinking given there exists wars in our world? So what do you think now?