Sad and Alone

The Failure Myth

Yes. Being alone means one thing, being alone. It's not sad nor happy nor peaceful nor chaotic. And, one can create any of these experiences when alone. My brain commonly creates sadness and failure. Luckily, I don't have to believe it- I can treat these moods as its creations. But to not believe it, I must be aware of it. Because when the sadness creeps up, it appears that life is sad, that I'm not connected to others, that love is a pipe dream (do you hear the violins?) Then I remember that the world is a mystery. Everything I know of the world, all the meanings and patterns and knowledge I know, all the flavors of the world, they're all produced by the mind. If reminded, it now knows how to let go of the significance of its own thoughts, the importance of its moods and feelings, the apparent reality of emotions. If reminded, it knows it's all a creation, and it can create something different, whatever it wants, which is usually connection and belonging... Yes. Being alone means one thing, being alone. My brain adds the rest. When I awake from the dream of its meaning, feeling my heart beat, the sensations all over my skin, the weight and heat and pressures all through my body, it dissipates. I'm grateful I've learned so thoroughly that meaning isn't real. There're two realities for a human. The one he knows and the one that's real. ================ (It's strange that we posit God to be omniscient and creator. This almost means the world isn't real or God doesn't know it. I guess there's just one other option, that this God doesn't exist...) ================================================================ Blood and saliva tests can detect the presence of THC or metabolites (chemicals produced by the body's chemistry after a drug is ingested) up to 2 days after marijuana use. A urine test may detect pot use up to several weeks later. A hair test can detect marijuana use up to 90 days later, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and the Psychemedics Corporation Over the objections of the American Medical Association, the Marihuana Tax Act was signed into law on Aug. 2, 1937. It did not directly outlaw cannabis. Rather, it imposed a tax that effectively made it illegal to distribute it. The act was subsequently supplanted by other laws regulating the drug, and it was eventually ruled unconstitutional and repealed in 1970. According to the Marijuana Policy Project (www.mpp.org), which is an advocacy group for legalizing marijuana, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia don't allow marijuana to be grown at home. Home cultivation is allowed only with a special license New Mexico. In Arizona, an exception is allowed if medical marijuana users grow their own if they live 25 miles or more from a cannabis dispensary when they applied for their card. According to the survey, from 2002 to 2007, past-month marijuana use among those ages 12 to 17 generally decreased from 2002 to 2005, remained constant between 2005 and 2007, and then increased from 2007 to 2010. In 2010, 7.4 percent of teens said they'd used marijuana in the past month. When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12 percent of Americans favored it. Public support remained in the mid 20-percent range until the mid-1990s. But by 2000 it had reached 30 percent, and passed 40 percent in 2009, based on Gallup's annual crime survey. In October, 2011, 50%! http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/nus-trk?trkact=viewQuestionAndAnswers&pk=group_item_detail&pp=1&poster=5514547&uid=5757170655413952512&ut=NUS_DISC&r=&f=0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2FgroupAnswers%3FviewQuestionAndAnswers%3D%26discussionID%3D254289364%26gid%3D74186%26goback%3D%252Egmr_74186%252Egde_74186_member_254289364%26trk%3DNUS_DISC_Q-ttle&urlhash=4xPx&goback=%2Egmr_74186 Shall we transform government Shall we transform government