Post 2285
- 8 years and 175 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Being right (knowing the correct answer), used to be very important to me. Not so much these days.
I used to feel like I could never drop the ball. If I was right, I 'demanded' that my rightness be acknowledged.
I don't feel that way any more. I will not argue checkable facts, but I will also not press my belief that my point of view is correct.
Not that I don't love a debate or a discussion - I actually do, really, love discussion, conversation. But I've given up being a hard-liner for my truth, my point of view.
I will, in fact, give up, yield the floor.
Usually.
One reason? In the age of google, factual disputes can be settled in seconds, without bringing emotion into it.
And, sometimes, when one of my facts is checked, it turns out, I'm wrong. Wrong when I was certain I was right.
I believe everybody does, all the time, the thing they think is most right given their understanding of their circumstances. From an outside perspective, I may have a different idea of their circumstances, but I have no right to expect that I have greater insight into their reality than they do.
I can be wrong.
Not only that, I believe the degree of certainty I feel about something is no guarantee of truth. You can't believe everything you think.
For that bit of knowledge and wisdom, for sometimes being right and sometimes being wrong, and yet still being here today, knowing my perfect imperfect past behavior, I'm grateful.
Food and Diet
I used to feel like I could never drop the ball. If I was right, I 'demanded' that my rightness be acknowledged.
I don't feel that way any more. I will not argue checkable facts, but I will also not press my belief that my point of view is correct.
Not that I don't love a debate or a discussion - I actually do, really, love discussion, conversation. But I've given up being a hard-liner for my truth, my point of view.
I will, in fact, give up, yield the floor.
Usually.
One reason? In the age of google, factual disputes can be settled in seconds, without bringing emotion into it.
And, sometimes, when one of my facts is checked, it turns out, I'm wrong. Wrong when I was certain I was right.
I believe everybody does, all the time, the thing they think is most right given their understanding of their circumstances. From an outside perspective, I may have a different idea of their circumstances, but I have no right to expect that I have greater insight into their reality than they do.
I can be wrong.
Not only that, I believe the degree of certainty I feel about something is no guarantee of truth. You can't believe everything you think.
For that bit of knowledge and wisdom, for sometimes being right and sometimes being wrong, and yet still being here today, knowing my perfect imperfect past behavior, I'm grateful.
Today's Weight: 200.6 lbs.
Previous Weight (6/21/19): 198.5 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: + 2.1 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
1:30pm:
Lunch
8:30pm: Cottage cheese, walnuts and a Quest bar.
Dinner
11:45pm: Vegetarian Sloppy Joe (Quorn Grounds, Wegman's Grandpa's Sauce, organic greens) with shaved parmesan cheese.
Liquid Intake
1:30pm:
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| Vegetarian Sloppy Joe (Quorn Grounds, Wegman's Grandpa's Sauce, organic greens) on top of cauliflower 'rice'. |
8:30pm: Cottage cheese, walnuts and a Quest bar.
Dinner
11:45pm: Vegetarian Sloppy Joe (Quorn Grounds, Wegman's Grandpa's Sauce, organic greens) with shaved parmesan cheese.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 88+ oz.;
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