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I am tired of doing things that do not add up logically. We do things because it is just the way it is done, the law, or protocol. I have to say I am feeling a bit rebellious. Which is not always the answer. Yet, rebellion led us to the country in which I live today. Not perfect, but a good place to live.

I am tired of society trying to make things work different when they can't. Improvement is always welcome, but not always achieved. Does this mean we stop trying to improve, of course not. It seems that emphasis has been misplaced at times and facts forgotten. For example, FACT: I am not a genius. (shocking to some, other are saying "far from it!") FACT: I can't become a genius. Not even if I surround myself with MENSA and read books all day long. My IQ is what it is and declining everyday. I might be able to improve it a tad here and there, but a genius I will never be. Society has a habit of trying to fit square pegs in a round hole and sometimes that square peg is just a square peg. Can some of us just be SQUARE?

Sometimes things that are made to make things "better", make new problems. Just an observation thrown into my life a lot lately.

To err is human! Yet, some of us are so prideful we forget this. I have learned lately that someone else makes an error and it causes us a lot of back tracking or more work. Sometimes we become a freight train in our furry. I am so glad I had time to react to a letter recieved this weekend that I could do nothing about until Monday. My first reaction was freight train, WAR! My second which proved less stressful for the war in which I engaged was not threatening and actually got me further than I thought. I still might have to do a lot of work on my end, but I see where my tactic worked so much better than freight train. I am in a war and the enemy doesn't even know it!

I recently read The Art of War, maybe my new views are because if this. I am not going to quote it exactly right, but one of the tactics is something along the lines of don't start a war with fire if downwind. Makes perfect sense, but how often are we standing downwind when fire is started? Just some stuff to chew on.

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