You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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I don't recognize when I'm sad.

If other people have the final say on whether you’re sad, then I probably don’t, either.

That the saying is true, "If nothing changes, then nothing changes." Yet am beginning to see people are often not willing to make even small changes either due to being too fixated on their old ways or perhaps because they won't be bothered with the new effort that is involved. If people don't want to change things, so that their life might change (improve for the better), you have to just allow them to stay in that form of insanity...which is "doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results." So in a nutshell...some people are dumb.

To know and not to do is
Not to know

I like the doing things over again expecting different results is Dumb not Insane.

In the back of the AA book they write a a Spiritual Experience is in part a profound alteration in how we respond to life.
Yes that is change.
It is possible I have
and fall back to old ways.
A friend told me current behavior is a better term than going back to old behavior.
I didn't like it but it is more accurate.

Thanks for the comment. Nobody is perfect, and thankfully, most know this. The issue of never improving can come through several forms, one being when a person refuses to entertain another way/idea/thought. That is why philosophers are still revered today, they did the opposite of this, and were highly intelligent. Usually, when I see a person that refuses to see another way...I see them as not only closed minded in general, but also dumb. It is up to each person, as to whether they choose to remain the same forever, or make progress. As a mental health therapist, that has been practicing for years...am beginning to see this clearer with each day. I feel concern for people that are fine with the status quo, and remaining in a sub par life due to the inaction of not making changes or refusal to take in new ideas.

That there are many, many good people left in this world. Today was filled with amazing blessings and needed reminder of this. I also learned that even though I don't believe in "karma" per se...I definitely think that God has a great way of surprising me by providing exactly what I need for encouragement, secure living, and hope - the very things that I used to give to others on a daily basis. Faith, hope, and love...are not things that can be bought, but these are things that can be given and borrowed when running low on any of them. Thanks be to the Lord, Amen.

Sometimes my desire to read and post on WP is less than the number of random log outs.

Today I learned that being a "gentleman" in England in the early 1800's meant that one had to own a certain level of wealth, certified by a banker, as England switched to bank notes to save gold to pay their armies in the Napoleonic war(s). Also, one had to purchase a license to hunt or fish & they were only available to gentlemen (or their employees for when they joined their gentleman on a sport hunt).

It's better to eat a sandwich if you don't have much of an appetite, than it is to drink slim-fast for that reason.

Nothing grand but I learned how to do the Golden Sands level on Little Big Planet (PSP) and I learned that my parents plan to live in a apartment which I saw that coming years ago.

I learned a guide is called a Führer in German, even if it's a guide book.

I keep re learning this.

I don't have to make everyone happy.

Today I saw it in a new firm.

"That's chocolate's job."


Me
"Reader and Righter"

at the motor end plate of a muscle cell, acetylcholine causes an action potential. this causes voltage-gated calcium channels to open in transverse tubules. the signal spreads to the sarcoplasmic reticulum, where calcium release channels open, especially from the calcium-rich terminal cisternae. the resulting calcium influx into the sarcoplasm allows calcium to bind with troponin. calcium bound troponin knocks tropomyosin off actin, allowing myosin to bind. the myosin can only bind to actin once it's been cocked back by ATP hydrolysis to ADP and P, which remain bound to the myosin. after troponin is bound to myosin, the myosin head releases its P (and ADP) and flexes, using the cross-bridges to pull actin over the myosin toward the center of the sarcomere. that is the basis of how muscles contract.

^^I have to keep relearning that, too.

I learned that butterflies are a symbol of life, death, and rebirth.

Pride before duty.

Peril before mutiny, pride before vanity, shame without honour. I could go on. The list is never full.