Recipe for happiness

Recipe for happiness

Establish your base
*add seasoning taste*

(posted 2021-04-09)

Random thoughts from today, September 28, 2019. Tree Frogs, children's glasses, Anti-Insight, Analysis of Ambiguous Data, Glass Half Full...

Humans are the same way as other animals, where bright colours and pretty-looking surface adornment can be a protection. It can prevent others from trying to take things away from you, can make you more intimidating, and make others afraid of what will happen to them if they were to attack or eat you. Like tree  frogs if you stand out people are afraid of you, and like birds if you don't look pretty people will feel bold enough to try to threaten you.

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It's ironic but wearing children's-sized glasses means looking less like a child when you have a very small face. The hard part is finding ones that aren't plastic purple Dora the Explorer and Tonka.

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Whether you go with MBTI, without MBTI, MBTI but "I am a mix between two types", MBTI but I only list one letter for simplicity... whatever you go with, just don't be anti-insightful.

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Strengths: "analysis of ambiguous data"
In other words, I'm good at looking back on situations that aren't very clear-cut and being able to figure out exactly what went wrong and which part to regret.

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I've always wanted to be able to log into one of those pop-up-from-the-browser authorization logins and actually have the credentials to log in. I do, this is legitimately my username and pw why are you not letting me see the expired paaage

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The way I learned about optimism was not “expecting the best to happen because that’s what you want”. Rather it was to “see the glass half full” so that your focus is not on what you don’t have, but on how to make the most of what you do have. This replaces despair with hope.

We should opt to come up with a new title other than optimist to describe someone who has a positive attitude, because it sounds like a common definition is that optimists live simply with the expectation that things will turn out favourably, so it makes people who aren't pessimistic sound delusional.
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(throwback)
Life is like a game of cards. We do our best with the hand we’ve been dealt, and in the end the goal is to have all our cards on the table.

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For a few years my bio has been "I'd say I left my heart in Mongolia but have never actually been there before." When I go to Mongolia the only downside is I won't be able to use that anymore. Guess the new one will be  "Left my heart in Mongolia. #RIPmyoldbio."

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It is incredible what a good night's sleep can do for you.

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Peeeeeeeas and peirogieeeeees

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You can’t force people to be comfortable with you, or logic your way into making them feel comfortable around you. People are not at fault if they just don’t feel a certain way about you.

The Hu Fanart

Who is your favourite band?

Yes they are!

Who though?

No, the Hu.

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Normally I wouldn’t run to social media with this type of news, but this is kind of my anti-social media because I don’t think anybody actually reads this blog.

Jaya liked the fan art painting!!

I hope Jaya got my thank-you in the caption too, for sharing their music. I really wasn’t expecting him or any of The Hu to find the Instagram post and wish I hadn’t put such a concise version of my thank-you message up. The one in the official Facebook fan page is no essay or anything, but it’s a little more specific.  Jaya is also especially an inspiration as a flautist.

I do hope they read the longer one, or at least feel the gratitude and good feelings somehow.

Since childhood I have been captivated by the nature the horses and the culture in Mongolia. My default bio is “I’d say I left my heart in Mongolia, but have never actually been there before.” When I listen to their songs, it makes it feel less far away.

I remember back when my calculator costed more than my cell phone.

Windward and windwise.

Seaward and seawise.

Treewards and treewise.

Onward, open skies.

The hill that was almost a mountain

Somewhere between Mayo and Keno City, Yukon. June 2019

"That's not a mountain, that's a hill."

I called it a mountain. I still think it's a mountain.

My friend from the Rockies who knows a lot more about mountains than I do did not think it's a mountain.

Another friend said there must be a specific measurement that ultimately distinguishes a hill from a mountain.

We are all both right and wrong.

The concept of a hill versus a mountain is made up by people. What is there is what is there, the cause that created the effect of what we see in that picture was what is was. But as for the sounds and symbols we use to refer to it, there is no universally accepted definition.

Despite this, there have been many moments when I have felt like a hill that was almost a mountain. And sometimes, being so close made it all the more painful. Many people have felt this way.

How would you answer this: what is the tallest mountain in the world?

(We’ll talk about that later.)

To anyone who has felt that way before, I'd want to tell you there are more to people than their mountains and their cliffs. People are less like single mountains; we are more like entire landscapes stretching farther than the eye can see, with more diversity and dimension and dynamics than the human eye can catalog.

Many would answer that the tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest. However, others would say the underwater mountain, Mauna Kea.

Some geographers go by a standard that a mountain must be at least 300 metres above sea level. In Scotland, any mound with a distinct summit is a hill, no matter its height.

People will call things what we call them. Just as much as a mountain does not make up the whole world, it may mean the world to someone just for them. And that is okay.

While my friend and I never did agree on what to call that one aspect we focused on, all of us there agreed that the landscape was nothing short of breathtaking.


Reference
How It Works Team. (2016, October 26). When does a hill become a mountain? Retrieved September 12, 2019, from https://www.howitworksdaily.com/when-does-a-hill-become-a-mountain/.

written 12/09/2019, edited and posted 2019-10-02

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