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Firescape Fridays Philosophy

Plant a seed | FF 5

If you spend the present moment worrying about the future, you are wasting the present moment’s gift of training for your future.

Look around you. Feel within you.

What is it you can learn right now that will make a future obstacle or battle easier to defeat, to win?

Mental training is more important than physical training. Despite all the talk around mental health, only now are we starting to make the very simple methods for training the mind more available: mindfulness and meditation.

Plant seeds for a better tomorrow. Don’t plant the seeds of fear and worry. Make small steps toward true happiness.

Be an athlete. Train your mind. Don’t let others control you.

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Firescape Fridays Poetry

And the Path is Dark | FF 2

For the first time in history
We have lost daily danger
Robots doing most arduous work
Steadfast protection from perceived external threats

So we no longer fight to live
Turning our choices over to untrained professionals
Motivated by momentary monetary gains
Unhappy lacking distraction in still moments

We interchanged dogmas
So we can scoff at virtue, instead
Worshipping power and profit strawmen
Spiritual faith exchanged for political cocksucking

We are no longer compelled to fix ourselves
We are machinery now repairable with medication
Our bodies broken before birth
Necessitating genetic modification

We manipulate nature’s randomness
We have erased beauty because man perceives
Chaos where nature reigns pure and cyclical
Revealing the path we walk now is narrow

Not spacious and hopeful and bright