Updates...
May. 5th, 2006 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerNew update at LongHairedWeirdo. I actually have a few updates, and I haven't been bothering to post them.
It's been a long week, and I've been tired through most of it. Yesterday, though, I felt good again for the first time in a while. I'm trying to nurture that.
I'm once again remembering the key part of my philosophy. Happiness and satisfaction are key to a productive life. Every time you have to force yourself to act, that's a little bit of willpower you're burning, a little bit of energy you don't have any more. If you're happy, you can work hard to get through an unplesant chore to get on to more pleasant things; if you're unhappy, you just don't have the same motivation.
I'm also learning that I still believe that happiness does not occur by fiat. It takes work. To overuse a metaphor, it's like role playing gaming. In an RPG, the players have to wortogether to make for a fun, exciting game and an outcome that makes everyone feel good about the session. But it helps if you have a good, solid base of well played RPG sessions to start with. Experience with being happy helps.
Huh? Oh. Yeah, I guess I could have used sex as a metaphor, but I already recently used sex as a metaphor for RPGing with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kightp so I figured I'd use another.
It's been a long week, and I've been tired through most of it. Yesterday, though, I felt good again for the first time in a while. I'm trying to nurture that.
I'm once again remembering the key part of my philosophy. Happiness and satisfaction are key to a productive life. Every time you have to force yourself to act, that's a little bit of willpower you're burning, a little bit of energy you don't have any more. If you're happy, you can work hard to get through an unplesant chore to get on to more pleasant things; if you're unhappy, you just don't have the same motivation.
I'm also learning that I still believe that happiness does not occur by fiat. It takes work. To overuse a metaphor, it's like role playing gaming. In an RPG, the players have to wortogether to make for a fun, exciting game and an outcome that makes everyone feel good about the session. But it helps if you have a good, solid base of well played RPG sessions to start with. Experience with being happy helps.
Huh? Oh. Yeah, I guess I could have used sex as a metaphor, but I already recently used sex as a metaphor for RPGing with
kightp so I figured I'd use another.
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Date: 2006-05-05 08:27 pm (UTC)In fairness, though, there are fair weather warmongers who oppose the current war because it's Bush's war, and others who oppose it because it's going so badly.
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Date: 2006-05-05 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-05 09:14 pm (UTC)*hug*
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Date: 2006-05-05 09:39 pm (UTC)And vice (so to speak) versa.
(Um, and anything I can do in aid of that "experience with being happy" stuff ... just holler.)