Simplicity And The Modern Day Woman

Lets see...Should we e-mail, fax, text, g-mail, walkie-talkie, voice mail to get our message across town? Should we wear a dress, skirt and blouse, jeans with a tee, trousers and sweater, a mini, Capri's, leggings, or hoodies? We must think about products to help us look natural, products to help us get rid of what nature gave us, a skin softener, a skin tightener, merchandise for hair removal, merchandise for hair attachments, a push up bra, an adhesive bra, a girdle to suck in our fluffy tummies, a bustier to make our breasts a chin rest, a bustle to add to our rear, and a body shaper underwear to firm up our buttocks. What happened to things becoming easier? In the good 'ol days we just tied a note around the leg of a bird. This was like an e-mail, although a tad bit slower. We would make a smoke signal, send a telegraph, or we even used Morse Code to get our point across. We sealed notes in bottles, hoping to get that bottle back in our lifetime. The note in the bottle is kind of like the modern day chain letter. You never know who is going to get it, what they will do with it and who will get it next. Word of mouth hasn't changed much, although gossip does seem to spread like viruses. Everyone seems to be sick with the virus you gave them; the only thing is, you never even knew you had it. Women in the olden days had just two sets of clothing; their working dress and their dressy dress. Women never had to think about food that was too processed, low carb, high protein, fat free, high calorie, or whether their time only allowed them to get fast food which still may not be fast enough. They just made a meal out of what they had, pulling frozen food out of storage when needed. What happened to getting all our errands done at one time, once a week? Every week they would make a trip into town to get their essential items, although it wasn't like they had to visit a mall or a town with three malls and several strip malls competing for their business. They usually just had one type of business that handled their needs in just one certain area. In the modern world, if we do not get out of our house at least five times a week, we are considered boring, lazy, or a downright homebody. Back through time, there was only one way to make your coffee. You would just percolate it over the fire or over the stove with real lumber, not a duraflame log. Now you have a variety of machines that will make it for you. You can set it for any time you would like, any flavor you want, with seven different types, and even go out to get a double decker with triple shots, flavor in it, whipped on top, with caramel or the chocolate syrup and sprinkles. If we would have told the towns people a century ago that they could drive to a window and get an incredible coffee with the strength, taste, sweetness, and temperature all in the breath of one sentence and the wave of a hand, they would have had us burned at the stake for being a prophetic witch. They would have thought the sprinkles was the newly fresh rain that came in unexpectedly. If you had lived during this time period, what would you have done with all of your spare time? Crafts, hobbies, read, sew, fish, send off chain letters in a bottle? Can you imagine all the left over time you would have to think, without all those gazillions of decisions you would have to make?

From Logic to Insanity or Just Somewhere in the Middle

What happened to logic? Where did it go? I have been looking continuously for years, maybe even decades, and once in a blue moon I will come accross some, and then when I do, I cautiously look side to side as if I'm crossing the street, hoping I don't get run over by a speedster that came out of nowhere. There is nothing more pleasing than when I hear someone tell me that they took the rational approach to handle a situation rather than their first gut instinct based solely on emotion so that they can ruin possiblilities in their future, taking pity on themselves for decades to come. Why? I have been asking myself this question since I was eight years old. Why don't people think about the consequences that could stem out of the situation before they respond overlooking all the sensibility? I have come to the conclusion that most people are "habitual instinctivers". They rely solely on their instincts. Society has effortlessly instilled in us patterns of our nature of living. Because society has given us restrictions that are unconsciously drilled in our brains, we become almost robot like and only believe that certain standards can alleviate the problematic situation. We are unknowingly controlled by our own societies limitations, therefore we do not believe that we have the capabilities to expand our thinking and we cannot imagine coming up with alternate solutions that may trigger a harmonious outcome. Habitual instinctivers become caught up in the drama of their lives. They live the drama for a variety of reasons. Some like the attention they get from others and some like the natural highs and lows from unsteadiness they can gather within themselves. The other habitual instinctivers are not taught the skill of logic or have not had the skill presented to them by parents, teachers, or mentors. If one wanted to acheive the skill of logic, they should first start thinking outside the lines, especially when a situation occurs where logic is needed. They may want to think about what outcomes that could occur if the actual predicament was handled in other ways. Another way to learn logic is to acquire a mentor. It is proven that when enough time is spent with one whom you admire, you will learn much more effectively. Logic can also be learned when you think of yourself as logical. If you hear yourself when you listen to yourself talking, you can consciously watch what is being said and you can concern yourself more with your logical presentation, rather than being caught up in the moment. Your self esteem must be at ultimate levels in order for you to feel as though your logic is optimal. The way you think about yourself can completely change your whole presentation, first impression, and confidence. So, if you find yourself leaning towards being the habitual instinctiver rather than the logical one with all the common sense, then you may want to stop the continual, non-stop talking and start growing a non-pesticide, all-natural, environmentally safe, composted and chemical-free listening ear.