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It’s hard to tell the difference between a prophet and crack pot.

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This is the way it is meant to be. The only limitation we have is a point of view, and that we base reality on that point of view. Which is crazy because no one else has that exact point of view.

So our limitation is our view-point, yet there remains a loophole; our imagination. Our imagination is culturally bound to limit originality, so this is too much over looked. However our brains are powerful enough to create original thought, and thus create new perceptions and realities. The stage stays the same, but the audience has mood changes.

It’s easy to put down your own ego to feel humble, but in all reality you are feeding your ego. There is no separation, you must forget your ego; yet remember what it can do to your thought process.

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I am sexist. To the very core I am sexist. We function differently, and that is okay. However in modern society, it is easy for these functions to be dysfunctional and be a disadvantage to both sexes; considering our bodies are naturally responding to unnatural stimuli. The biggest difference between men and women is that women base actions on emotion, while men base actions on logic. This causes women to seem over emotional to us at random moments, while men seem to lack emotion even at appropriate times.

A lot of men are emotional.

As a man, I suffer no shortage of emotions. I almost feel as if I am cursed to be more emotional than other men, but I have encountered many men who feel the same way. Well guess what? It is a weakness. We do have an advantage of really experiencing life, but we also expose ourselves to the enemy; that is the enemy and women. I recently started paying attention to how guys use emoticons, and I realized how much it exposes you. This may not seem like a big deal and it might seem like I am stereotyping manly men, but think about it.

So emotions are bad?

Women do not want an overly sensitive man, as much as they wish you would relate more to them. This is not to say that exposing your emotions is always wrong, far from it. Showing your true emotions and being vulnerable at the right time is powerful. However typing in an emoticon to show your emotion, is actually going out-of-the-way to tell people how you feel.  This subconsciously affects women in a negative way. Is it a huge deal? Not most of the time. However if you already have a problem with women, it may be one thing you should try cutting back on.  The key to remember is that showing your emotions is attractive, going out of your way to show your emotion isn’t (Especially if it is to just anyone.); since it really just represents the need for attention, which translates to being needy (We don’t even need to cover why that is bad.).

Okay, anything else?

As an addition to cutting out emoticon usage, I suggest you practice writing in more effective ways. Effective writing will relay your emotion much better since women are so in tuned to emotion. This will come off as more sincere, instead of showing what emotion you are feeling, she will just feel it.

So why should everyone give up emoticons?

Effective writing works well with both men and women. Sharing your feelings in this way will create a much stronger bond, since you have to work to relate.  Which would make you feel closer to someone? Two “=)” smiles exchanged to show both are happy, or hearing why someone is doing well (without even having to say they are doing well.).

Conclusion

While emoticons aren’t inherently bad, the state of communication is. With short attention spans, we try to deliver content as rapid as possible; so why not state the emotion in a flash. These emoticons are distant from any real connection. A few smiley faces here and there won’t hurt, but I rather aim to get the other person to show a happy emoticon.

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1.Approval

This addiction is worth cutting off completely. We all seek approval to validate our own self-worth, and it is essentially problematic. It can completely destroy our creativity and individuality, though that is not the underlying fundamental reason; we do not have internal confidence if we are constantly seeking external appreciation. I exist, for myself. I do not exist, for you.

The best way to eliminate this addiction is not necessarily to focus on stopping the actions you take to seek approval; though being aware of these actions will be of great help. The best way to really tackle this issue is to build your own self-confidence, and actively pursuing this confidence from within and not from without. When you approve of yourself from within, you will most likely stop caring if you get approval from without.

2.Television

Growing up on television, this is an easy concept but hard to pursue idea. It sounds more like an ideal, then something you would really do. Cutting it out is completely doable, and probably one of the easiest addictions to cut if you make the jump. How many countless hours do you waste watching television? There are probably a good amount of seemingly acceptable reasons to doing so, rather than address those specifically; I will just make a simple statement. There is an extremely high probability that even with your reasoning, there is a time you watched T.V., and it was not necessary; it was just something to do. That is time wasted, when you could have done something a lot more productive or/and gratifying.

This is an addiction that can be attacked many different ways, here are a few: get rid of your T.V., disconnect your cable-box and only watch videos, use your parental settings to establish a limited viewing time. There are a lot of options, I personally disconnected my cable box; I can watch DVD’s and catch up on any television I really want online. This one was a hard one for me, but I did not feel I could write this in the article unless I did it myself, I will see in time what happens.

3.Connection

This would be the hardest one to eliminate completely, and in this day and age I do not advocate it completely. I am talking connection to the internet and social stream. The benefits of this are really an odd concept to me. Growing up, internet is how I connected to the world; it’s how I connected to friends; even before web 2.0. Now I have a lot more friend’s offline than I did when I was younger, but I still connect to most of them online. So why would you eliminated being connected to people online; to become more connected to people offline. Sure there are a lot of time-wasting things to do, but I am talking the constant connection we maintain these days with having our cell phones fully Facebook and Twitter compatible.

So I propose a technology fast. I admit this is not one I have consciously applied, but one step at a time and it is definitely on my list of things to do. For 1 to 3 days a week, I say eliminate technology as much as possible. Do stuff with your hands instead, connect to people in person instead, or even meditate instead. Let’s remind ourselves that technology is a tool and not our life.

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However I did not lay in bed and cry about it, oh yeah I did for a short while.  Things really started to click for me during this time, I had lost myself. The 2 and a half years together had delayed all my ambition. At the heart of this, it was my fault; I take responsibility. Oh how powerful it is to take responsibility, to no longer be a victim.

My death is where I was born.

And so I will leave the story there, for the moment.

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