Life on the FAT trail
The biggest threat to humanity’s future is FAT. No, not the physical variety. I mean the approach to life where you:
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Feel, then
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Act, and only afterwards,
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Think.
This is the priority that television, movies, marketers, radio hot heads, and sometimes even your parents, boss or spouse use to motivate you, to get you to feel what they want you to feel. After all actions based on feelings are very predictable, so getting you to feel a certain way will also get you to act a certain way. The downside of living on FAT is that you become beholden to the source of those feelings like they were an addictive drug. You forget how to feel any other way. And feeling anything is so much better than feeling nothing… without feeling, you may think you are dead.
But feeling the same thing over and over is no way to live life. It is the life of an addict. It stops getting exciting pretty quickly, though in the boredom you don’t see any way out… at least until you realize living with FAT means you are always being manipulated for somebody else’ benefit. Perhaps then you can begin to feel motivated to seek a different way.
In some ways, that is what the book and movie Eat, Pray, Love is all about. But another way is to reverse your diet of FAT. Instead, commit to living life consciously…
- first by THINKing,
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next by ACTing,
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and then just let the FEELings follow.
In the non-FAT, or TAF way, you get to own all your own feelings and prevent them from becoming the plaything of others.
How do you begin to think on your own on a TAF diet after foregoing FAT?
- By listening to all the signals the world is sending you, and putting them in context for your own situation, not for making Limbaugh any fatter.
- By dropping fear that everybody is trying to con you and steal from you, but instead realize that those who tell you to be angry are the real con artists
- By being open to your own needs as part of a range of needs that can be satisfied by joining a community, not pulling yourself away from and thinking you are better than the one that subtly lets you know, it needs you.
Or you can continue to live by FAT and die dumb and unhappy.
