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#Post#: 31703--------------------------------------------------
Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: September 19, 2017, 9:15 am
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Dear Members, Lurkers and Devotional Bliss-bunnies:
Have you ever wonder how far along the road to H/A you have
come, or perhaps, looked at someone and wondered how far he or
she is along the path to adulthood? Over too many years of
study, observation and experience, I have found that there is
one very consistent indicator.
Drama is all about not getting what one wants... about
frustration, loss, inadequacies, bad parents, kids in jail, just
about any situation where someone doesn't get what they want,
and even better, someone else gets it. Drama is based on
shoulds, coulds, wouldn't, needs, wants, just about anything
that goes against what is. What is is exactly what is and not
amount of denying it has ever changed it.
Imagine this, you are struggling along in life and you next door
neighbor comes charging in one day, glowing like a Cali grow op,
and declares he has won the lottery, who hoo! Ecstatic in a
Homer Simpson way... smiles from ear to ear.
Now...my question is how are you going to feel? All shoulds and
shouldn't aside, how would you react? Your actual response is an
excellent measure of how adult you are.
Imagine you turn on CNN and announcer has gone all Jim Carrey on
the TV audience. ''Evening folks, well... not much happened
today, mostly same old same old, pretty much like yesterday,
Yeh, another hurricane, but same as the first.... oh.. it seems
that Bob and Better Sturnholme in Eugene, Oregon had a new
grandchild, a little boy... congrats to the fam... so... that's
about it. I'll probably be here tomorrow, but don't expect
anything exciting. See ya then. Love ya."
Then you turn to your favorite soap, As the Stomach Turns. This
is the first new season episode and finds Laura and Nancy
talking over a coffee. Nancy is totally heads over heals for
Jason, a real hunk. Laura says, ''Well, why don't you just come
out and ask him to marry you''. Nancy says, "You think I could
do that?''. ''Well, worst he could say is no''.
Nancy plucks up the courage and asks Jason. He says ''Yes''...
they get married and end up deliriously happy into their golden
years. Of course the soap is promptly canned and the writer
fired.
But drama doesn't work like that. In the dramatic version, Nancy
asks Jason and he says he is in love with Laura and won't marry
her. Of course Laura is gay and in love with Nancy and delighted
with Jame's rejection of the proposal. Laura is not going to get
what she wants because Nancy is as straight as an arrow. End of
episode.
Life is more like this than not for most people. Folks like
watching TV and actually believe it... spend hours each day
watching soaps and the like. Maybe it's forums or blogs, the
kinds that foment argument and demeaning posts ... and in doing
so lift the observer and writer up to new heights of illusory
self-esteem.
So, watch yourself and others. The draw to drama is a pretty
good indicator of how adult you are. How you feel about your
neighbor winning that lottery will tell you plenty about
yourself if you listen.
What do you want but aren't getting? What do you want and it
seems everyone but you is getting it? What do you not want yet
is seems to be constantly turning up in your world? A better
question would be, how do you know that you want or don't want
something? What informs you of your preferences? Are you sure
you want and don't want certain things?
Maybe take a moment and want exactly what you have in this
moment. What law says you can't want what arises to you? What or
who is the ultimate adjudicator of what is right or wrong? Is
that little voice in your head even yours? Maybe it's a parent,
an early school teacher, a minister, a friend you look up to.. I
don't know. BUT, I don't listen to any voice that isn't MINE,
which means there are very few voices going around in my head...
and if it happens to say something, I listen closely.
So, where are you on your journey to H/A... and while on the
topic, why even bother with H/A? I can answer for you (yeah,
sheesh, I actually am that arrogant)... because you aren't
happy. That sums it up, make up all the reasons you want, but
that is what it boils down to... am I right? Come on, be honest,
am I right? You read this far so somethings bothering you.
If you are still reading, let me offer you some (non-asked for)
advice. Stop engaging in, watching, encouraging drama in your
life. It's only going to give you a temporary rush, like that
double chocolate fudge banana split sunday... in the end it will
take years off your life and life out of your years. You haven't
materialized in the dream to burn yourself out with misery and
drama. You might be doing that right now though... have a look
and see. What have you done lately that was like throwing gas on
your drama campfire?
How far are you along the road to becoming an adult... it's
right in front of you.
Love ya, Jed.
P.S. I hope my friggin neighbor buys are quieter lawnmower with
his lotto winnings so I can sleep in more. God meant me to sleep
in, that's why I do it.
#Post#: 31709--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: guest1413
Date: September 19, 2017, 10:34 am
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Today the question: what will remain of me if ill cut loose my
drama... and now you post this.. 🤔 I am nothing without
it. Time to make something fun out of this peace of shit.
#Post#: 31710--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: September 19, 2017, 11:04 am
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Always a good time for fun....
#Post#: 31715--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: Marina_
Date: September 19, 2017, 2:53 pm
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Sometimes it seems to me that I'm writing to myself. ))
What you write is my thoughts.
--- Quote from: Jed McKenna link ---
>
> What do you want but aren't getting? What do you want and it
seems everyone but you is getting it? What do you not want yet
is seems to be constantly turning up in your world? A better
question would be, how do you know that you want or don't want
something? What informs you of your preferences?
--- End Quote ---
These are very profound questions. Very concentrated.
The answers to these questions are the keys.
... the keys to freedom...
Jed, dear, I have nothing to add to the topic.
Love you.
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Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: September 20, 2017, 4:50 am
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Well, don't ask me... you already know the answer.
Love ya, Jed
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Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: DragonTree
Date: September 21, 2017, 5:29 am
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Are you sure you want and don't want certain things?
Am I sure?
Do I want things?
Do I want this cereal in front of me?
There’s salivation
Quick surges of commands to eat.
How do I know what I want?
What is in control here? Cause it's not me
do i eat that cereal or do i throw it out? either way its not my
decision. just looking at that stupid bowl is bothering me now.
How do I decide?
Cereal on wall :(
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Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: September 21, 2017, 1:12 pm
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Well then, I suggest you have nothing to do with it or me...
But wouldn't that be an adult approach to your opinions?
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: bree
Date: September 21, 2017, 2:31 pm
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Dude , you are a real deal ! Awesome *slowclap*
Yes , in my life I encouraged drama around the dream of
travelling with someone else's money ( like company sponsored
trip for strictly official purposes). I have the money to travel
on my own .. but no .. the dream is strictly about company
travel. .. which makes me ( or might make me ) feel competent ,
more power and you know .. a reason to be arrogant in my
demeanour.
Everyone else I know had travelled on company's expense. But not
me. I imagined arrogance/ confidence as my end prize out of this
dreamy thing. Everyone else seems getting a chance to travel on
company's .. but not me. I used to cry alot. That crying was for
my only longing desire.
Well, now I don't cry that much. These wailing episodes used to
go on for years loaded with self loathing and guilt .. now they
last for 30mins max.
So, not bad a progress on H/A front.
#Post#: 31765--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: purpleroses111
Date: September 21, 2017, 5:32 pm
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Hmm, this mind is most bothered by seeing people in perceived
happy relationships and getting dates. Strange thing called
envy. Not ever having had a significant other is my most
persistent stumbling block. Maybe it's the final one, I don't
know.
#Post#: 31767--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant, Your H/A rating.
DIR By: jonnydas
Date: September 21, 2017, 9:56 pm
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Still rantin'. Good show. You rock, Jed. Thanks for everything.
JDas.
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