Keep running even with the problems

We get the baton, the problem, we just go on to run with it at some appropriate speed and in some direction. We can argue with the problem all we want. But there is no disputing that the problem is there. Even if it represents itself as baggage, it hurts a bit to carry the bags.

In addition, an interesting factor to this is how, did we ever get to this problem, who handed us the baton. We may have handed the baton to ourselves or more likely it has been handed to us.

Maybe we need to co-exist with the air, the sun, and the inherent limitations. I can’t see to China from where I stand. The past evaporates behind us but the problem festers, continuing into the future.

Maybe we need also to incorporate this problem. I want to run free, loosely, and unencumbered but I have been handed a baton. I just have to incorporate it as I run. I would prefer to have my hand free. If you want to keep our hands free by all means, do this.

But you can’t operate, free and clear of everything if you don’t want the benefits of it. Opportunity might present itself as a mixed bag, causing the problem. I might be free and clear of this, but I’m not going to get the good part either. I don’t want sand in my feet so I don’t go to the beach. I work straight through the year, putting aside any other interests, and say I did great, safely bypassing other possibilities that involved unfamiliar turf but could have been a platform to new interests, hobbies or personal enjoyments. So, do I want to put a hand in this or not, can I co-exist with the problems contained within this endeavor, this pursuit.

We feel deficient, we probably are. But we can compound the problem, by shaping our own deficiencies and defiance’s to further feed our perceived inadequacies, further distorting the windows of our perception, and losing further objectivity to the true faces and facets of our problems.

There are certain conditions to anything we do. The conditions may or may not be there and may be found in some degree. Maybe you have the right stuff, plus some problems. But we don’t think optimistically about that right stuff part. But you continue and the problems become associated with unworthiness I’m not worthy to be on this beach, because I’m out of shape. I’m not worthy of talking with you because I’m not in the boss, or I’m not from this town. But then we expand on this to where everything is put in this venue, worthy or unworthy, good or bad when the problems themselves might not even fit into these categorizations.

So our model becomes skewed, we want the proof in advance really. We need so have some realistic appraisal of what we are doing but we need outright proof before we want to do something. There might be some truth to the saying, “there is proof in the doing" Evidence does develop as we proceed begin to travel along a course, not just from the standstill position of an observer. Within reason of course, we don’t want to take undue risks and forget the observer role totally. What happens is, as we search for evidence, we put it in with the problem and use the problem to hide ourselves from our original intention. We drape the problem over the solution, or we drape a solution over the problem. Neither is in its proper view. Can we bring both the problem and the better ways to live with it or them into view without one cascading over the reality of the other? I have these problems, they are with me and I can’t get away. But do I have to drape these problems over even the other things that I can see. Not necessarily because of the inversion process where I want every possible view but I just have a preset view that I’m not, willing to modify based on new evidence which can be contrary to our initial view. So I try to deal with the problem, and become more immersed in it and less objective as to what the real possibilities are. I globalize the problem and it permeates more space in my thinking and my approach than it would have had I tempered it, and in a way I see the problem out of proportion to everything else of a good nature. People recommend periodic detachment as one avenue of finding their way and I can’t do that if I wait until I’m problem free because that just isn’t going to happen. By expecting to be problem free, I am going for that where I need objectivity to the problem, and in my strivings to be problem free, I go into an overdrive that becomes so subjective that I lose the needed objectivity to keep a balanced view of all that is still working for me in spite of or in tandem with my problems.

I am driving down the road, and I arrive at some detour that I get stuck in. I begin to see the whole road as a detour, when I fact it’s otherwise smooth with the singular exception of this one detour. I become ensnared with the problem, and the problem takes up all the space against my otherwise open sky of possibilities.

Then I can’t become also enraptured with the possible, because I am trapped in the detours. No wonder people get stuck and can‘t see the fresh waters of what is possible. So if you have difficulties, try to live with it, and run with it in some direction. I have this, I can take it in one of several directions, or I can take it in several directions not simultaneously maybe but as time goes on several directions can be explored. I can try this out as this difficulty isn’t going away and I just need to keep going if I’m ever going to find the other side of this.

Cindy Crawford has that famous mole. However, when people see Cindy Crawford, they see a beautiful woman.

Someone fails a test. Do they see a stupidity or just a botched test that maybe they didn’t study for, or didn’t study the right material for, and maybe consider that the test itself was faulty. Where does the problem actually lie and let’s not say automatically that it relates to native intelligence or ability or even motivations. Maybe the question mark needs to be put elsewhere. What are the true real considerations here, and let’s now just put the easy mark of blame on myself all the time.

But let’s see what we see. We take one instant and frame it. That person might have done well on several other tests but had that one bad grade and framed it. We can co-exist with problems, but let’s not worship them and cast a die in them, holding to them like a lifeboat. With the different themes running through our problems, we can run in different direction depending on what we do with the baton that we have in hand.

Then, if the problem is so ingrained, then maybe I need to see it as not a problem. Maybe the pretty girl is so bothered by people who give her unwanted attention. Then she could also say, its not a problem. She takes the handoff life has given her smoothly.

So what happens is the problems come together as they are course together and become thematic. We may need a radical shift because these problems have all seemed have me on an actual course, a running theme that is just not working for me.

Do solve the solvable problems because problems do tend to compound in, and you get more than the initial bargain in the problem deal.

Then the point might come to where we want these problems, because if I don’t have the problem, what is left. We couldn’t co-exist with it as it was, and we made the problem even bigger. Look at what we did as a nation; the problem of a philandering President was made a national issue for a year, shading away other issues of real consequence to the nation and its individuals. The problem of one man and one woman became National fodder for the press, usurping other key events. We had the option of living with this problem without the full-scale press of the press.

Each stage will have its problems, but there isn’t going to be a player on that next stage, if we keep all these current problems on an altar.

I can’t wait until there is no air pollution to start my life. I will have to go forward and march under the ozone depleted atmosphere, dealing with the chaos and uncertainty that will not cease blowing in those winds of tomorrow, as I hold the baton running into an uncertain future.