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From the mind of critic: “If kindness, gratitude, presence in the moment and love are the only authentic method of moving us forward,how come so many of us shy away from it? Are we afraid that if we show any of that vulnerability we’ll be viewed as week, and people will walk all over us, making their way forward that much easier? Or have we never known the power of gratitude and kindness and the motivational power it contains, and believe the only way to get ahead, is to be the biggest jerk we can to as many people as we can? Doing something that we’ve never done before or don’t have much experience at can be hard, causing us to second guess every action and thought we have. Now if our first reaction is to be a jerk because we’ve seen other people succeed that way, we’re probably moving forward with what examples we’ve seen. We can fake it till we make it, but it’s more than that. Maybe we’re afraid to show gratitude and kindness to early, for fear we wont be defensive enough when our detractors come knocking. Maybe we feel we don’t deserve kindness and gratitude before we become successful, that only people at the very top of their game, at the apex of their goals are grateful, because how can we be thankful for anything unless it’s the 100% completion of our dreams. Once we realize that if we attempt to wait until we have everything we want to be grateful and kind it will guarantee our failure, we’ll see that gratitude for all that we have, and kindness to ourselves and others, is how we stay present in the moment so we can move forward. It’s not so much about others pushing us forward so we push ourselves, it’s about loving ourselves and others, which is the only thing that continously and infinitely propels us forward” 🙂

From the mind of critic: “If comedians, comedic TV shows, skit comedy shows, late night shows and satirists are overflowing with a tsunami of material that keeps getting taller, stronger and deeper as the people in power get more ridiculous, is it a positve thing? Is it a good thing that it’s so easy to make fun out of people at the top, does it actually help our progress forward as a species because more people can more easily see, and then act on the day to …day hypocrisy if they can laugh at it first? Or is our society, humanity and descency on the decline because making fun is easy, proving the easier it is to lob insults and tell jokes, the worse we’re collectively devolving? Laughter is the best medicine is an old cliche for a reason. If we can’t laugh at ourselves and where we have to improve, serious doubt can creep in as to whether our humanity is on the decline, because we’re so messed up that we have to laugh, or we’d cry. Once we realize that laughter is used as a coping skill and an educational skill, and often at the same time, we’ll see that comedy is made for all sorts of reasons, that serve all sorts of agendas. However, when we do learn to laugh including but not exclusively about ourselves, we’ll see that once we are in a happy and positive mood, we are way more likely to not only take positive action, but also for ascertaining the facts that would spur that action. Laughter is as much medicine as it is motivation. May we always applaud those who make that concept easier to understand”

From the mind of critic: “If faces come out of the rain when we’re strange, are we strange to ourselves, or others? Are the faces that appear judging something they don’t understand, somebody who appears strange to them? Or are these faces ignorant about something they don’t know about and feel generalizations make the best descriptions? Sometimes as we journey on through our day, we aren’t quite sure who we are, and we can come into contact with many wolve…s in sheeps clothing who appear extremelysure of their judgements. Maybe we take this advice as the gospel since we haven’t given much thought to who we are, and this person sounds like they know what they’re talking about, so why not believe them. Maybe we have given a lot of thought to the type of person we are, and this advice comes off as the ravings as of an ignorant, uneducated lunatic, who is so confident about their knowledge, they dont realize that even a 4 year old could poke holes through their bullshit. Once we realize that there will always be people out there who are overly confident about their knowledge they believe everyone thinks like them, we’ll see that the only judgement that matters is ours of ourselves. As long as we aren’t strange to ourselves, most people wont see us as starnge either. The ones that do, we’ll know it’s false because we know the truth. There is nobody on earth that knows us better than us. Once we have that confidence in ourselves, the fiercest of ignorance will never break through. Faces will always come out of the rain whether we feel strange or not, how we react to them depends on how much we love ourselves”