Post 1303, Day 304 of 2014
- 1,400 days since I started this blog -
- 1,400 days since I started this blog -
This led to some funny incidents related to that 'fame'.
On a few occasions, I would meet people, and when they heard I was a bass player, they asked if I knew... myself!
I would say I'd heard of me. Then I'd ask if they'd ever heard him (me) play. Quite a few said they had. (Hmmmm.)
I would then ask what they thought of 'his' performance. No matter how they answered (usually varying degrees of positive), I would take an opposite position, using words like 'over-rated', or 'sloppy' (actually what I thought of my playing in those days).
And I would finish up with a personal assessment: "I hear he's an asshole, though."
I never revealed they were talking to the bass player they were talking about.
That was then. I was poking fun at them, poking fun at me. I didn't have time for people who had that kind of pretension. I was dismissive and arrogant.
Today, I see things differently. I believe that every experience, and certainly every personal encounter, happens for a reason, can be learned from, and therefore provides an opportunity for growth.
I hope that I have learned some humility in the last forty years. I try to remember that I don't actually know what is going on in anybody else's head, anybody else's life - we are not ever permitted a complete picture of another.
The 'other-ness' of other people is mostly illusory. The 'I' and 'them' duality is false. File that under, 'Beliefs'.
Yes, everybody I meet is some aspect of me, recognizable or not.
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 208.8 lbs
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| 2014 Daily Weight |
Previous Weight: 206.8 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 2.0 lbs
Diet Comment
Too many Quest Bars yesterday? I don't see this two-pound reversal making any sense. Diet Comment
Food Log
BreakfastSkipped.
Lunch
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| Eggs scrambled with kale, peppers and onions, side of bacon. |
A Quest bar.
Dinner
At La Piazza:
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| Lamb, pork, beef kabobs with Greek yogurt, home-made pita and tomatoes and onions. |
Coffee: 24 oz. Water: 88+ oz.
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I agree with you. I want to add that the implication is also that "I" am an aspect of "Everyone" else. Was it, Baba Ram Dass or Stephen Gaskin, who said - "Police need Hippies and Hippies need Police". Dated, but the relationship of opposites in unity still applies. I need Other to exist. For us, everything is defined by simultaneous definition in pairs of opposites, the reconciliation of the seeming separate. i'm just trying to underline your conclusion.
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I want to correct something I've written. Wherever the word "I" is used as a relative pronoun, please read "Me", to distinguish it from the identity of the whole, the unfragmented "I".
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Good thoughts. Thank you. While I'm about it, I have to say that I've been meaning to call you for almost a month, including while on vacation, and for one reason or another (all on me), I haven't. But I will soon. And I hope to see you soon, as well. Planning on going to NY for the long Veterans Day weekend.
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