posturing

 

Dr.J says—"The road to personal peace is a multilane highway in today’s world. There is a lane for peace through prosperity, peace through prestige, peace through possessions, peace through personal achievements, and more. But all those lanes to peace omit the one lane that is necessary before all others: peace with God.” Ouchy ouchy! Do you agree with Dr.J? Saturday question—Do we have peace in our lives and mind or are we just posturing ourselves to appear we do or look important to others (i.e. look like a bigshot—we just try to fool folks)? Saturday question—Do we ever try to fool folks by posturing?

Soooooo is this posturing?  Hey, a happy husband is a happy life tooooo! Soooo now that changes the equation a bit now doesn’t it. Probably, maybe, posturing in a marriage or any relationship isn’t such a good thing. Probably not! What do you think?  It appears that many folks do posture themselves in many relationships.  Look around folks, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. AverageJoe says—And the sum of the equation when one or both parts are posturing themselves is usually a stinky one!

Many folks do great things for others, but we don’t know it (i.e. love others more than they deserve). Not all senior folks do senior activities all day to make themselves feel good, oh no, many have mission projects here while in the Valley of the Sun and back home during the summer months. We just don’t know about them (i.e. we have really found this to be true—good folks with good hearts, our kind of folks). Flip the pancake—Yes, there are some folks that posture their life to be all about themselves (i.e. all about me and making themselves look important). Ouchy ouchy. JoeBlow says—Givers are always happy and takers are mostly miserable all the time. Such is life. Patti, not just anyone can be a Patti, says--It is the little things we do that can make a big difference. ~ Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it for me. ~ Jesus in Matthew 24:40 JoeBlow says--Volunteers have an attitude of, It Ain't About Us!

Got new wheels for transportation in the park. It’s a hand me down from Jeanne. It is in tribute to my picklelball teaching mentor of years ago, BigPete.  He liked pink and wore a lot of pink, but I never saw him on a pink bike. I’m one up on him maybe, posturing myself!. I’m not posturing myself in making myself to look like I’m up with the elite, oh no! BUT I really like it. Those step throughs are good for old farts, and I sit up high and don’t have to bend over (i.e. I feel like a king). Oh ya! Hey, I am who I am and you are who you are. You think I should keep riding the pink bike? 

Letz ride 'em cowboy! A lady told me the other day that her husband says to her—You are not the boss but just bossy! We took the Civil Right Training course, a requirement for our volunteering. A term that they used in our education was “Compassion fatigue.”  We work with homeless and folks who have financial problems soooo that can really be a problem. They recommend that we don’t overdo our volunteering. Makes sense to me I think. Soooooo how about limiting the time we associate with folks who drag us down?  They might really screw up our lives!  I always say—Ya gotta be around good folks at least for the high majority of our time. BUT that is our decision; and decisions have consequences. And who gets to make that decision? You got it sweetheart! Soooo my volunteer boss called me honey when giving me directions just after our Civil Right Training. I asked her if she calls everyone honey; I told her that you have to treat everyone the same.  That is the law sweetheart!

MissPerfect says--Maybe in posturing there is a massive huge difference between perception of ourselves and the reality of ourselves. You think sooo? I do!  I’m sorry if I hurt your ego. Posturing is very important in many social circles. Folks may act not as they are but how they want others to see them maybe. The lead lady of the volunteers told me that some volunteers are asked to leave—what—they come here to just pad their resume and some volunteer to tell their friends and etc. that they are some big shots; they have the wrong motive. We ask them to leave; they just don’t fit with us. Our experience with the volunteers that we work with is just great, great folks with great hearts, our kind of folks!

Do you think we ever become showoffish when posturing ourselves in a group?  Like trying to position ourselves as being high on the pecking order of the group?  Soooo do folks like that when we become showoffish? We hiked the Butcher Jones Trail the other day (i.e. I know that some of you have hiked it when in AZ). We met two couples from MN and they noticed I had my Iowa cap on. We talked about Caitlin Clark.  They just really love her as she is soooo good and soooo humble (i.e. not showoffish). They asked if we saw her interview when she set the scoring record—no—they said she was as humble as pie! Huh, interesting. If I don’t care for showoffish folks and you don’t care for showoffish folks then others don’t either!  You and I aren’t that smart to be the only two. Da!

Toooo be always the best is a form of posturing maybe; a lot of folks like that image, don’t kid yourself. I know that I probably have LEP, Limited English Proficiency. I thank all of you who correct me in telling me about my poor spelling and grammar errors. My posture is pretty low compared tooooo most of you. BUT most of you, about 400 each week. don’t seem to get overly excited about my LEP. I guess you just put up with my LEP! You are very kind. Yes you are!  You are good folks with good hearts, my kind of folks. This proves that you are!

Okay, here is something to think about. The pastor Sunday said that there has been and always will be oppressors and the oppressed. Always!  BUT he said, many times when the oppressed get out of their oppressions they become the oppressors, just change positions. Have you changed? Maybe when we get a little money, power, position, etc. we now become the oppressor (i.e. get the big head and think we are better than others). Could be, maybe, probably, I don’t know. We then posture ourselves differently, maybe (i.e. we then we think we are big shots a.k.a. big stuff and lose our humility--we maybe change to think we are now the king of the hill, the big bopper). Ouchy ouchy! Such is life.

Talk about getting humbled! I helped a friend pump up their bike tires on their bikes using my hand pump.  We were talking and both tires exploded with huge massive bangs. I guess I put tooooo much air in them maybe. Or they were old and couldn’t handle the pressure. I know that when folks get old they always don’t handle pressure very well and explode. ANYWAY, I paid her for new tubes. The Detroit Lions thought they had the game won at half time but lost. When we think we have it in the bag, stuff can happen (i.e. we sometimes become overconfident).  It happens all the time. Maybe that is a form of posturing. Could be. We lose our humility. ItchieBitchie says--Maybe we all need a bodyguard, not to protect us from others but to protect us from ourselves. Yikes! I don’t think I will ever have to help pump up her bike tires again! Stick me with a fork; I'm done; I'm toast!

I read while eating my oatmeal with half a banana on it this--The whole world is in the grip of a giant panic attack, a mental pandemic that affects the human race like a virus (i.e. maybe we're not very peaceful). Do you think that is true? If it is, it ain’t good folks! Well, we have an extra day this month to think about it. We might need it!  haha

CoachB says—Ego says once everything falls in place I will find peace but the spirt says once I find peace everything else will fall into place. You believe that?

Have a FUN day my friend unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

MyFriendJean said—If your train of thought isn’t getting you anywhere, you’re probably on the wrong track.

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