Life is Like Us: Recent Episodes
Scott Patrick Erwin
If we look at ourselves and the life around us, there are lessons. Lessons about ourselves, human interactions, our ambitions, our inspiration, and life around us...If we observe the lessons, learn from them, and grow with them, life can be better. So I hope you enjoy my musings about life.
Life is like us.
What are the hard decisions you face today? What are the decisions you are putting off making? What are the decisions you have been running away from making in life? Life is a constant cycle of relentless decisions. Those decisions we make or do not make and therefore make by default, create the results of our life. There is no escape from it.
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Do you leave or set yourself reminders and instructions? Life has given you the lessons, you just need to accept them and relearn them for the current moment and time. And be open to relearning them again and again. Forgive yourself for forgetting. We are all imperfect.
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Are you the Driver or the Car in Life? Is that a strange question? Life either drives us or we drive life. Life gives us what we ask of it. How we interpret what life gives is up to us. When we change the story of life, in our minds, we change our life itself.
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What did you do with yourself in 2020? How did you survive it? In 2021 and beyond, I think this will be a question people ask and answer regularly. Life is a daily search for meaning and significance. When life is interrupted, like it was in 2020, it can be a challenge to find meaning and significance. However, that is our challenge. To find meaning and significance, make note of what it meant in the moment, and then move on.
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Have you ever trimmed a rose bush? The gardener prunes a rose bush often during the growing season to cut away the blooms that are finished and make room for the newer blooms to come. It is a natural process to shape and nurture the plant during the growing season. Like a rose bush, life regularly prunes away things in us to help us to continue to grow. The process keeps us healthy. And sometimes, when a season of life is over, it cuts it all off. Life trims us back to almost nothing.
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In order to navigate a fast car at a high speed successfully, you must tune in with your conscious mind and use that focused mind to train your unconscious mind to perform at a higher level. Only when we are focused on the present moment and the actions required in it are we driving our life at its full potential. You must focus, assess, make decisions, take actions, and assess the results for any changes needed and then F#@KING PUNCH IT!
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Have you ever seen “The Nutcracker Suite” ballet performed live on stage? In the United States, it is a holiday favorite. In 2013, I wrote a book called Life is a Ballet, is one perspective on life. It is one way to look at life and to “dance” with it. The ballet of life is underway. Whether you are dancing or standing still indicates if you are a performer or an audience member.
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Life is about giving thanks, everyday! Everyday the Universe is giving us a meal to digest. Sometimes that meal is a lesson. Sometimes it is a moment. Sometimes it’s a morsel of truth.
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Have you ever seen a Vincent van Gogh painting? Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world’s greatest artistic minds. However in his lifetime, he was considered a failure. He suffered from episodes of psychosis, delusions, and depression. And yet he created some 2,100 works of art and 860 oil paintings. Life is a mystery. Some do great work and make tremendous impacts during their time in society, art, technology, education, and upon other human beings. However, some live lives of struggle, challenges, and despair never seeing the impact of their lives.
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Do you enjoy Science Fiction movies and shows? Where did the inspiration come from? Maybe Science Fiction movies are one place where the Wisdom of the Universe is shared in life in a way that we begin to understand the vast complexity of this existence.
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Do you ever walk on quiet lonely trails?...Life has many lonely roads. Some we choose to take. Others we just find ourselves upon. Our view and perspective is usually what makes the difference.
When you find yourself on a lonely quiet road of life, slow down and look around.
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A crankshaft is a hardened piece of metal at the base of the engine block that turns the pistons of a combustion engine. It’s sole purpose is to turn over and over and over again for the life of the engine. It has a boring function, and absolutely necessary.
Routines are the crankshaft of our life. Routines are processes of doing things over and over and over again to push, turn, and operate the parts that create power.
Life is like a crankshaft, it is only through daily routines that the potential of your life gets created into explosive power to be transferred to movement systems in our lives. Movement is action. Action moves us forward.
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Have you ever driven up to a crossroads and had to discern the way forward? What are the crossroads in your life? Most crossroads are significant life choices. What crossroads have you gone through lately. Standing in the middle of a crossroads, trying to discern the right way for your journey is extremely uncomfortable. Whatever your crossroads in life, before proceeding, know you will be uncomfortable, because they are important moments where important decisions are made. Our life can only go one direction at a time. And the many directions it does not lead to are costs you have to make peace with.
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Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep, and wonder what to do with the time? Wakeless nights are a lot like life, they seem like freely given time that is just calling out to you to fill. Life is like a sleepless night. Time is given as a gift. We can use the time or fill the time. What we choose to do with it reflects what inspires us or what holds us back.
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Books are the stories we tell ourselves. Life is the story we are telling ourselves everyday. Life is like a book. Books are the stories that we read or internally speak to ourselves. Life is the story we continually tell ourselves about our past and what it means for us today and the possibilities for tomorrow. Life and the life we live is the sum total of our beliefs and stories that we have about ourselves today.
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What is your favorite song? You know that one that reminds you of a time when you first heard it? Back when I was a kid, it was the last era of record stores. If you heard a song on the radio, you'd go to the record store and buy it. Singles played at 45 RPMs... Life's anchors can hold you to something good or keep you bogged down to things not good. The anchors you place in your boat of life are what define your journey.
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Life is about beginnings, endings, and beginnings again. Everything we experience in life is a beginning. We wake up and begin a new day. We lay down to sleep and end that day. We close our eyes and fade off into dreamland and begin an unconscious journey into our minds and whatever connection that has to the Universe. We end the night of sleep by waking up and again beginning a new day. Life is one big cycle of beginnings, endings and beginning again.
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Life is like a playlist, it is unique, distinct, and original. If we want to live passionately, creatively, and with peace in our soul, we have to appreciate that each of our lives will be different.
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Isn't funny how we all want the answer to the Meaning of Life, but when the answer doesn't make sense, we stop and do not consider it very deeply?
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Life during this time is often about protesting. Signs are everywhere, life signs. I respect both sides of the struggle. Life matters in the distinctions and in the whole. We all need each other as humans and your life sign matters.
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What is your workout? The benefits of a workout do not come from doing it once, the benefits come from the discipline of daily repetition. Success in life is the one percent result of ninety-nine percent of our effort. Life is like a workout, we have to choose to show up and do the work. If you want to improve in life, you have to chose to show up for it every day.
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Travel shos teach us to appreciate the diversity of life. They introduce us to new places, new people, and new cultures. Life is different everywhere. In the end, diversity is what is beautiful about life.
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Anything worth doing is worth setting a goal. Life either happens to you or You happen in life. The life we live is a direct reflection of the goals we set for ourselves.
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Laughter is one method of mood management to stay positive in the moment. Joy and laughter are healers of the soul.
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Life is Jazz.
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If you ever lose your way in life, a dog can show you the way to love yourself. What if we could take their example and love ourselves just as much as they love us.
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A few thoughts on life's pursuit of happy-ness and your hero's journey.
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Life does not always allow for our expected celebration of our accomplishments.
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In the summer of 2016, I summited Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower forty-eight states of the United States of America. Its summit sits at 14,505 ft. When doing something like summiting Mt. Whitney, you learn things about yourself. You learn grit and determination. Life has all kinds of mountains that we climb.
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I have spent a considerable amount of my lifetime asleep. Not physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We wake up every day and let society around us influence the direction that we will go. Life is about now. Life is about loving the moments we are in right now.
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As I am writing this, the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) is shutting down the world. Life is a bit crazy right now. It is REALLY crazy right now. And it could be very easy to descend into fear, anxiety, and nervousness. Life is about today and our reaction to it. It is about being present and thankful for the life we get to live everyday.
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Why did I start writing Life is Like Us? Never shy away from the question, “Why am I doing this?” When you don’t have a good answer for that question, that is the answer. Use your internal intuition to make the tough decisions.
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I believe one of the hardest questions in life is to truly ask yourself, “Who am I?” Do you know what is even harder than brutal self analysis? Life is about living your story, not letting the story of life live you. Are you going to choose to be the change agent of your life story, or are you going to let life write a story for you?
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Grief is a tough thing to go through. We are never prepared for it. Choosing life instead of grief is a daily decision.
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Our lives are constantly changing because life is change. Can you think of any story in life that inspires you that did not have change? Is your life and your story a heroic tale or a tragic drama. When faced with change, embrace it, push into it, understand it, seek growth and wisdom within yourself. Make the tough choices.
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Noise is everywhere in the world. Life can be stressful and the constant state of noise surrounding us, in all forms, adds to that stress. In your life, recognize that the noise around us affects our mindset.
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BBQ in the USA is a social food. It grew out of the good old south and Texas traditions. The life around a BBQ is the closest thing to a perfect moment that I know in life.
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Have you ever looked at a piece of art and wonder what motivated the artist to create it? Why do people create art? Why do we enjoy art? Your life is your art.
There is a statistic, that approximately 22 Veterans commit suicide each day in the United States. In 2009, my brother became part of those statistics. Life is like us.
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Life has all kinds of connections that we carry in our hearts. For me, it's a group of kids that I shared nine of my twelve years of school with. Life is like us.
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I love walking into a thrift store. Usually, it is because I love the eclectic nature of the items you find there. It may be difficult, but one day your most prized possession may end up in a thrift store. Life is like us.
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Have you ever watched a show from the wings of the theater? It is one of my favorite ways to enjoy a performance. Life is like us.
Life is like a flower show. We all have common things that we love; those things that could easily be overlooked.
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We take all kinds of walks in life.
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Cars are a part of our existence. They play such a vital role in our success in life.
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The start of anything can be hard..Life has all kinds of starts
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Life is easily observed around a lake. Life is best lived in those calm moments with good vibrations.
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The long lonely roads of our life are the ones where we discover ourselves.
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Have you ever stood at a new spot and wondered what someone else from a different time would have seen?
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One of my favorite movie quotes is from Spinal Tap, “Mine goes to 11.”
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When transitions happen in life, new spaces are expected. They just happen. New spaces are a place to begin again. Choose your new places and spaces carefully.
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Time is a gift we only get once. Life is like us.
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Every time I drive through a tunnel the effort it took just amazes me.
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It takes commitment to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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Sunrises happen everyday. Most of us are here to see them, however, not everyone makes it to the next sunrise.
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All the life that we know internally and externally exists in the language we tell ourselves about it. Life is like us.
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Listen to the music. Music helps to manage the mindset of life and stay in the moment. Life is like us.
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Life is about living. Living each and every day. So get out there, live life. Life is like us.
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The life around us is complicated. Things happen. Life is born and life dies. In the middle, unexpected outcomes occur. Life is like us.
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If we look at ourselves and the life around us, there are lessons. Lessons about life. Lessons from human interaction, relationships, art, dance, business, physics, and...life. Life is like us.
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Life is a funny thing. We live it and yet we generally do not have any idea what is going on. I know for myself the more I observe life around me, the more beautiful and complex it becomes.
Life is like us.
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