Label Me Confounded

If anything, I am an advocate of the meatloaf theory of life. 

There is no single situation or condition that exist that is not the culmination of a series of contributions and choices; be they pleasant or unpleasant, the fact of the matter is; the here and now has arrived at by the affect of a host of things. (Things being both behavior and actions from the external surrounds as well as temporary temperament and attitude.) Wow, that sounds cosmic.

  BUT, I felt it a necessary preamble to mention if I wished to continue addressing the idea of confusion and the state of being confounded, with clarity; along with how honest unbiased processing is as needful to decision making as a keel is to a sailboat.  As a sidebar, a keel is hidden under the water and juts downward at a 90 degree angle from the bottom of the vessel. It is necessary to keep the boat moving in a straight line; one might conjecture it was the rudder itself that managed direction, but without a keel, the rudder itself would make slipping direction changes; it’s the keel that keeps the body of the vessel moving in the direction the rudder helps you shift towards.  In other words, you need both to affect a controlled change.  This example serves as a building block towards identifying both honesty and unbiased processing as dual efforts towards the same goal of genuine; (that then leads to authentic; that then leads to the psychological term ‘well being’; also known as prolonged happiness.)  I’ll get those terms at another time; like say when I wish to discuss the significance of sail and sextons.

  The notion that we have a grasp on our world is an elaborate, embraced, self deduced certainty.  In effect, it’s not what one would call ‘known’ by a measure of evidence supporting a particular reason or proposition; all of our perceptions are subjective points of view.  We practice aligning a series of facts together and create a plausible and conditional truth.  The folly blossoms when the effort to contrive a projection of permanence to our conclusions; (an aspiration to achieve so we can place our trust into it being always the case).

      Once any of us engages in future-weaving, we’re apt to be discovered as cleverly fooling ourselves.  What are alluring are the notions that if we can convince others to agree with our interpretation, their agreement serves as the conclusive and substantial evidence needed to prove our assessment.  We become embolden to believe we are right; we attach, and then defend ours is the right version; cute.

  And really….so what? I think, from a point of comfort, that’d be pretty much what most would consider at this point of reading.  What harm is there in embracing a personal version of reality?  In the moment-to-moment environment of existing, and in a purely objective point of view, I’d pretty much agree that a perpetual state of delusion of grandeur would be fine, fine fine.  But here’s the rub.  To be right the rest of the world has to be wrong.   And the trouble with that is our social relationship with the world; it’s just not very accommodating…not in the least, to follow your versioned script; no, no that’s not how the hand plays out at all.  In fact, when placing one’s welfare at the hands of fate, the most common result is a constant state of upset, and the best case heaping doses of anxiety; which just happens to be the most common mental illnesses in this country.  What does all this distill to?  Liberate yourself from a limited life born from confusion of course. 

   Your mind is a wonderful puzzle solver. When something doesn’t fit, it will continue to play with the parts (facts both proven and assumed) until the picture falls into place.  Just as my earlier mentioning of the keel and the rudder being necessary for a sail boat to make progress towards a chosen destination; so it is true to omit assumptions of external compliance in order to derived concept. In effect, use only the actual facts.  To be honest in that approach, exclude contamination in conclusions of what is and what is not fact.  Then personal desires will not bias choices you can make to get that meatloaf of your hopes delivered.  Yes, a lot of imagery to say stop fooling yourself and get involved with experiencing your life as it is.  

  Decline the reflex to resist what you don’t want for an illusion of a different sort.  It’s simple to notice when you’re drifting, when your keel is broken; it’s when you’re confounded, you’ll drift away from what is real pretty much most of the time.