Life in the Present

Do you remember that fork in the road?  The time you made a decision that changed everything?  You took that job…you met that perfect guy…you got married…you had beautiful, healthy babies and life was amazing...complete.  Or you made a decision along the way that changed everything and life no longer feels complete.  Now you have a choice.  Again.  You can’t control the cards you’re dealt, but you do control how you play your hand.  Do you fold?  Slow play?  Bluff?  Regardless, the dealer holds the cards.  You control how you play them.  You're now standing at the crossroads.  

Poker is a great metaphor for life.  “You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away…know when to run.”  Read your hand.  Gamble.  Strategically.  Take educated risks.  If you're dealt a shitty hand three times in a row, play your cards right and win the hand.  Luck plays a part, of course, but ultimately you’re in control of your destiny.  Realize the power you possess.  It’s a universal truth.  It’s empowering and it’s real.  Life isn’t weird, life isn’t happening to you.  Own it, own who you are and own your decisions.  Then grow from it.  Become better, help those around you become better.  Turn lemons into lemonade and be humble enough to share your lemonade.  We’re all in this together.  One giant tribe, living in little tribes, trying to make this experience, called “life,” an enjoyable one.  Forgive yourself, forgive others, forgive.

“Life in the present” is my new motto.  Live too much in the past and you’ll waste your ability to enjoy the present.  At the same time, if you worry too much about the future, you’ll miss out on the experience you're currently having.  The present is the only moment you have.  Bury your preconceived notions, bury your judgments, your perceptions...or misperceptions.  Pick your tribe.  Pick your tribe wisely.  Surround yourself with as much happiness as possible.  It's contagious.  The point is to LIVE.  Exceptionally.  Right now.  

Alternatively, choose to merely survive, rather than actually live.  No judgement.  It's your call, your decision.  But own your present role, your present actions and, most importantly, own your reactions.  I've realized through wyrdness that controlling your reactions, to both the good and the bad in life, is crucial to living in the present.  Your reactions create your present and change your future.  Understand that this moment - every day, all the time - crafts your destiny.  Don't make excuses.  *Trust me, we all have plenty of bullshit to whine about.  Go ahead and whine about it, but then you gotta pick yourself up and make the best of it.*  Live in the now and love it.  Or don't.  It's up to you.  Destiny is what you make it, even when you're dealt shitty hands...over and over.  *Or call the wah-ambulence...wah-wah! ;)*  It's wyrd.  Whatever that means.

*Or throw your headphones on and listen to "Running for Your Life" by...you guessed it...Dirty Heads.  I originally posted a different song when I published this blog, but I threw my headphones on that night to go to bed and "Running for Your Life" was the first song to play on shuffle.  I've always loved the song and the lyrics.  They're powerful for me, they speak to me.  The lyrics were perfectly wyrd for this post.  I had to use them.  It felt perfect.  Wyrd, right?!*

RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE!

Chorus Wisdom:

 “Red lights racing, calling for a ride, no brakes, yeah, running for your life, don’t waste it, the moment’s never right, so make it, running for your life…running for your life…yeah…running for your life.  The moment’s never right…yeah, running for your life!”

Dirty J Wisdom:

 “Like a rogue wave. Let the Water Spill.

My friends are Crazy 88.  Call it Kill Bill. 

Ask me red or blue?  I took both pills.”

Duddy B Wisdom:

“Tied up and tangled.  No sense in resisting.

What sound does my voice make if nobody’s listening?

All I can hear is the wind as it’s whistling.

All my life I’ve been searching.  Just looking for something.

Can’t find nothing if you don’t go hunting, man.

Dive into the flames, you can do it if the devil can.

And Imma make my mark, yeah!  But Imma start with a spark, yeah!

And I’ll explode to a peace sign.  Tie-dye flag wave higher than the skyline.

Where the beast is reality, dreamin’ is easy, life’s just a quandary.

Take a wrong turn, you’ll get lost in Jumanji. 

Forget about the past, yo, that shit is dirty laundry!”

Dirty J & Duddy B Witty and Hilarious Wisdom:

“Listen up, Kemo Sabe!  Hands up!  It’s a robb'ry!”
 

Ke-mo sah-bee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ke-mo sah-bee (/ˌkiːmoʊˈsɑːbiː/; often spelled kemo sabe or kemosabe) is the term of endearment and catchphrase used by the fictional American Indian sidekick Tonto, in the American television program The Lone Ranger. In The Lone Ranger radio program, Tonto called Lone Ranger "kemosabe".

Ultimately derived from gimoozaabi, an Ojibwe and Potawatomi word that may mean "he/she looks out in secret",[1] it is sometimes translated as "trusty scout" or "faithful friend".[2][3] Its use has become so widespread that it was entered into Webster's New Millennium Dictionary in 2002.[3]

In the 2013 film The Lone Ranger, Tonto states that it means "wrong brother" in Comanche.

*Time to wrap this post up.  I couldn't find the lyrics to "Running for Your Life" anywhere on The Google.  I had to actually do work.  Can you imagine?  Not fair.  I worked all day at my regular office job!  Just kidding...Dirty Heads lyrics are totally worth it.  Anyway, I played the song on my phone, held it up to my ear so I could figure out the actual words, continually pausing so I could type them out...when I noticed something wyrd.  **Speaking of which, the lyrics could totally be wrong...that's just what I heard.**  At the moment the chorus gets to this point, during the first chorus: "Red lights racing, calling for a ride, no brakes, yeah, running for your life, don’t waste it, the moment’s never right, so make it, running for your life," I paused the song to write it down and noticed it was exactly at the 1:11 point in the song.  That is wyrd!  If you don't know why, please refer to my previous Wyrd Dose post: "Facebook, Instagram and Twitter."  It's effing weird.  Or fucking wyrd!  Whichever flavor you prefer.  On a side note, could someone please figure out all the lyrics to "Running for Your Life," then send them to me?  In addition to never shutting up - see my first post...I forewarned you - I may also be a little bossy.  Let's compromise.  If I'm bossy in a pleasant way, can we call a trues?  I would say I'd try to be less bossy, but keeping with the running theme, let's be real...that'll never happen.  Hehe!  Once you take the time to figure out ALL the lyrics, go ahead and send to me.  Please and thank you...?  Think of it as a gift to humanity.  It's for the greater good =).*

Notice it's paused at 1:11?  Listen for yourself if you don't believe me.

As Effie Trinket stated in the Hunger Games, "Happy Hunger Games.  And may the odds be ever in your favor."

May the odds be ever in your favor:

Overall meaning:  “I wish/hope that you have the best chances of winning, not just now, but always.”

• Posted on 4 December, 2014 
• by woodward
• in Learn English

Until next time, my SoWyrd.com tribe!  *Cheers!*

Happy Internaut Day!

Welcome to SoWyrd.com.  Today marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web.  It’s hard to imagine life without the web, without search engines, without Google.  The web provides immediate access to information, in real time, right at your fingertips.  August 23rd, 1991, was the first day the web became available to the public.  On this day, 25 years ago, a new platform to share knowledge was born.  ”Internaut Day” is a celebration of the internet.  Think of an astronaut exploring the internet instead of outer space and you have internaut.  It is the celebration of when the web began.  August 23rd also happens to be my birthday.  *Although a titch before 1991...or almost a decade…but, whatever!*  Have you ever noticed everything vital happens in threes?  It’s the web of wyrd.  Sowyrd.com is the union of the World Wide Web to the Web of Wyrd to the So Wyrd.  The Three Sisters of fate.

The birth of the web, the birth of Sowyrd.com and the birth of me were all on August 23rd, but in different years.  That’s wyrd!  "Wyrd" is pronounced "weird" or "word" and can be described as the matrix of fate.  Take the red pill or the blue pill?  *Fuck it.  Take both pills.*  I like to call it "wired" because it creates distinction between weird and wyrd.  That guy who walked by you on the street, muttering to himself that he is God and the world is about to end, is weird.  That time you learned what wyrd meant, and suddenly experienced it happening all around you, is wyrd.  The paradox is that coincidence may not exist and events do actually happen for a reason.  We can change the way we view our past and make plans to alter our future, but we should focus on our present.  Live for the moment.  Which is something very few of us actually do because life is too damn busy.  There is so much to do that we don't have time to experience our present.  I am presently on the journey myself.  *Pun intended.*  I threaded the needle with my past.  I’m sewing my present.  And I’m weaving the pattern that creates the future I desire.  Or I’ve lost my mind, which is totally possible. 

*Just ask my friends.  They must worry I’ve lost my mind quite often, which is why they’re my tribe…because they continue to put up with me.  Lol!  Can I say "lol" in a blog?  I don't know.  Are there rules?  Probably.  There are always rules…so many irritating, pointless rules.  But I'm a spirit-of-the-law kinda gal, not a letter-of-the-law kinda lady, so laugh out loud or lol.  I don’t really care.  Just be you and I’ll be me.  Let’s all be real.  **A future blog post in the making.**  HOLY SHIT, I blabber a lot.  Told ya!*

The truth is that none of us are special.  We're all experiencing wyrd.  The "Three Sisters" symbolize the past, the present and the future.  Once you open your mind to the concept of wyrd, once you recognize it, you might notice it all around. You’ve just never paid attention before.  When you talk about a show you haven’t seen in forever and that very night it comes on and you think, "Gee, that's weird, I was just talking about this."  Guess what?  It's not weird.  It's constant.  You just need to watch for it.  Pay attention to it.  It’s like waking from a dream when you didn't realize you were even asleep.  When there are too many coincidences for it to actually be a coincidence, it’s wyrd!  When life is strange, start thinking in terms of wyrd and write your own destiny.  Your reaction to the past creates your future so take control.  Find your passion.  Find your happiness.  Find your purpose.  Perhaps we’ll achieve world peace. 

*And beauty-pageant-contestants from around the globe will rejoice.  Hey, nothing personal against beauty queens, but that was getting way too cheesy so I had to throw beauty queens under the bus…figuratively, not literally, of course.  You gotta watch this clip from Miss Congeniality real quick, we’re talking 52 seconds, click it!  Captain Kirk, also known as William Shatner, “What is the one most important thing our society needs?”  To which Sandy Bullock, as Miss Congeniality, replies, “That would be harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.”  Dead silence.  “…and world peace,” then the applause begins.  “Thank you, Gracie Lou.”  “And thank you, Stan.”  So funny!* 

Am I lost in my delirium or is there some way to make sense of it all?  Everything is unified.  Everything is connected.  By understanding wyrd, we realize we're in control of our own destiny and we're all in this together.  I certainly don't completely understand it myself.  Not even close.  Let’s take this journey as a collective and explore wyrd together.  A brilliant researcher, Brian Bates, described wyrd best with, "Today, the term ‘weird’ means something strange, bizarre, or supernatural.  But in its archaic and original sense, it meant that aspect of life which was so deep, so all-pervasive, and so central to our understanding of ourselves and our world, that it was inexpressible."           

*As a bonus, this website will save my tribe from the onslaught of my constant blabbering.  Now they can just close the page when it becomes tiresome.  Okay, okay!  Again, let's be real.  I’ll continue blabbering out of my mouth-hole in person, as well.  I think it's embedded in my DNA.*

Internauts UNITE!  *And will someone please get me a pocket protector?  Because.  Nerd alert!*   

Here is some wonderful research about wyrd written by Brian Bates:

http://www.wayofwyrd.com/introduction_pc.html

Hopefully your interest has been satisfied enough to visit again.  *Cheers* to the web’s 25th birthday!  I literally don’t know how the world functioned before “The Google,” but I’m old enough to remember that it did, which makes me appreciate its magic all the more.  Happy Internaut Day!  *Clink.*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3755011/Happy-Internaut-Day-web-marks-25-years-public.html

As Dirty J sang in "Red Lights"

"You cannot stop me, I'm the vital one
Let me get lost in my delirium
You cannot stop me, I'm the vital one
Let me get lost in my delirium."

de·lir·i·um

/dəˈlirēəm/

Noun

1.       An acutely disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech.

o   Wild excitement or ecstasy.

synonyms:  ecstasy, rapture, transports, wild emotion, passion, wildness, excitement, frenzy, feverishness, fever; euphoria, elation.  

"The delirium of desire.”