Staying Happy

In my time here I have found the most indispensible attribute towards maintaining hapiness in life is a conscious discipline of choosing not to view situations, even adverse ones, as oppositional to us, but instead as opportunities to learn specific skills we have have prescribed for ourselves. This attitude frees us from comparing ourselves to any (impossible to acheive) standards of perfection, but instead as students on our journey to mastery. Our awareness is now freed to view the effects of our actions empirically as we assess "what is happening here? what did I leanr? what would I do next time to acheive better results?" We begin growing into life instead of experiencing it as a never ending serries of challenges that undermine our sense of adequacy.

alien ambassador

In my dream I was an ambassador from an alien species. I landed near a school which was almost empty apart from a couple of adults whom I seemed to think were part of the government. I kept referring to each of them respectfully as the 'minister for -' ... 'is the minister for education such-and-such?' whatever I assumed their position was. Some guy kept taking me around the corridors, I wanted to see the right people and speak to them but he kept prevaricating by doing that. Inhabiting this character was interesting because he was very benevolent, I could tell that on his planet the government was really there to do for people, they really cared. He probably would have been very upset if he ever found out what it was like on earth. It was interesting feel that way or that that was even possible from as an anarchist.