I worked on the following document this morning and created a video recording of me reading it. I think it is valuable though thinking through things probably should have summarized the topic a bit better at the end. Sooner a document is delivered has potential to equal greater head starts. I might have chosen more refinement and a longer wait, though in a World full of AI and Supercomputers, head starts might be more valuable than they were in the past. I wrote the original document on Apache OpenOffice and created a screen recording using OBS.
Party vs Do Not Party
Life is short, seizing the day far from a guarantee. At any one moment someone in the World is likely suffering in a way that deserves tears and more serious appreciation of their hardships. There are serious matters like people left on streets, food insecurity, wars, and real oppression that is all likely amplified less than ideally that is all likely comprehended less than ideally.
Investing time and energy in causes gives weight and seriousness to the causes. This can be allot of value added to society and people that help and care should be appreciated for their involvement. The World is a better place because many people that care and aren’t required to care still care, still invest time, resources, and effort.
All that said investment in better does not guarantee great results, does not guarantee immortality. We invest as humans yet the more I invest I am both driven to desire greater results and to acknowledge that my visibility and comprehension is far less than ideal and my impact is highly dependent upon God, who I do not fully understand or comprehend, and upon times that I do not fully understand or comprehend. More data and more knowledge has the potential to be both useful and potentially inspire less buy in because the more data available might require the acknowledgment that much more data might be available and be required to lead to more useful delivery upon that data.
People that Party have full visibility or comprehension of the current times in history? Unlikely, people that don’t party have far less than full visibility or comprehension of all hardships in the world. That said when your hurting and you see amazing parties, music, and shows that you are not invited to it has the potential to become discouraging. People that are Partying and making/display amazing shows, music, and products are trying to make peoples lives better by providing amazing and encouraging content, inventions that can revolutionize life to better days. Thus partying and enjoying life in a way that gives sufficient weight to the hardships, struggles, and work that still needs to be done in the world is not always adequately invested in, thus there is potential for allot of iffy situations and allot of friction.
It would be nice to be able to have indestructible, iron clad protection while partying that one has the right to party, to enjoy life, to live life to its fullest. In reality situations have the potential to be more iffy in many different ways, people that are successful and enjoying life has the potential to increase resentment and visibility does not always amplify in fair ways or ways that will lead to sufficient biased reduced. There is value in success and there is costs to success that is not always fully appreciated, success has the potential to isolate, and isolation is not all parties amplified.
I want others to be successful and I want them to be able to actually enjoy their success, be rewarded for what they get right and minimize the destructive qualities of success like isolation and persecution/discouragement. Better communication fostered has the potential to be allot of value added as well as better more graceful, forgiving listening (which is a part of fostering Better Communication in my opinion).
Patronizing comments has the potential to be discouraging, has the potential to isolate the person delivering the patronizing comments. Patronizing comments has the potential to lead to appearance of arrogance, hubris, of less than sufficient comprehension and perception that could be capitalized on by other parties. That said even meaning well, trying to do right by others I have the potential to be heard, perceived, and comprehended as Patronizing. Even trying to do right by others, even trying to say the right things does not guarantee my motivations and direction for words chosen are ideal (maybe pouring a bowl of soup for someone at a food kitchen might be of greater value than words at times, likely not always fully pondered).
Listening in a more forgiving way is important. People do not always deliver ideal words. People that say things in a Patronizing way might be desiring to be helpful and have less than ideal direction inspired desire to discourage me. Even if the motivation is to discourage me or others it is likely due to being taught or having ideas reinforced through non ideal systems and mentalities in society that do not always amplify ideally or sufficiently.
There is less than ideal teachers and coaches, communicators in society inspired, thus holding others responsible without grace and forgiveness for a system we all invest in by both action, direction chosen, and inaction seems unwise. There is a reason for grace and forgiveness, teaching better requires time costs and work that not all people are enabled or willing to invest in ideally and is thus not always invested in. Investments in training others better is not without tests from the Devil and Evil In By Design, thus Investment is made more difficult in not fully comprehended or visible ways.
Thus listening in a more forgiving way and trying to amplify words and conversation that is both more inclusive and encouraging seems wise. “Your words have have the ability to inspire” – Scott Tillema, Secrets of Hostage Negotiation, TEDxNaperville, YouTube. The Bible says “Blessed are the peacemakers”, finding a way to inspire better use of words and better perception comprehension of words in combination has the potential to facilitate greater peace in my opinion.
Giving people the benefit of the doubt, thinking better of others, finding a way to value the value in their words and minimize the bad has the potential to build more bridges, inspire more encouragement that factors into and facilitates a better society. I want others to give me the benefit of the doubt, and I know when I judge my judgment is generally made based upon desire for throughput, personal biases, and less than ideal visibility/comprehension. The Bible says “Don’t Judge” for a reason, and while I know we all are required to make assessment on a daily basis, I know at least personally assessment and judgment lines can be blurred personally in ways that I find less than ideal.
Better communication has the potential to lead to greater friendships. Friendships have the potential to create exclusivity, special that others do not feel included in. Thus inclusivity and encouragement has potential to amplify more and less at times in ways that might not be obvious. Raising comprehension for others requires time investments, and time investments are both useful and not always free, thus amplify less than ideally.
Knowing all that makes the decision to Party or Not to Party more difficult. If someone throws a party and you choose to not go, is that really treating the person throwing the party the way they wish to be treated? If others are not invited, is going to the party treating others the way they wish to be treated? Partying or Not Partying seems like delivery on Golden Rule (which I both find valuable and important) is less than ideal.
Partying is sometimes accompanied by Alcohol, Drugs, and Other situations that might amplify less than ideally in the current times, and has precedent for amplifying less than ideally from a societal judgment assessment point of view. Public Relations problems that do not always amplify easier for others. Cumulative Effects of Partying (that included alcohol or other substances) has the potential to lead to health problems. Health Problems that have the potential to make things harder on the system as a whole. Thus Partying has the potential to mean different things to different people, with different implications and assessment (potentially judgment) that is inspired. Encouraging to some might equal appearance and perception of more societal strain for others.
That said nobody is guaranteed time on this Earth, and trying to tell others not to be Encouraged and Enjoy life seems less than ideal. I would advise wiser and more intelligent partying, though I can’t say for certain what that always is. Binge drinking and excessive alcohol has not amplified ideally in my life thus I stay away from it these days. People that invest less in heavy drinking at 20 will likely be appreciated by their 40 year old self, though at 20 imaging self as a 40 year old is likely not fully comprehensible thus not always pondered. I am currently 40, I have potential to pondered who I will be at 70? Unlikely.
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