tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72455272024-03-01T19:39:51.437+08:00Dominae Primus : creations and thoughtsDominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-33545016290429211232024-03-01T19:38:00.002+08:002024-03-01T19:38:59.509+08:00Suffer Optimally not Needlessly<p><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As someone who has ripened over time, if there</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">’</span><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">s one advice I could give myself and others is to choose our battles and struggles wisely so that we suffer and sacrifice optimally, not needlessly !</span></span></p><p align="justify" class="15" style="line-height: 12.0000pt; margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-para-margin-bottom: 0.0000gd; mso-para-margin-top: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-30553987124149774602023-10-16T20:07:00.003+08:002023-10-16T20:07:46.312+08:00When to Live in the moment and when not to<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Living in the moment and enjoying it is a laudable practice. However, do note that everything has to be in its proper context. Living in the moment is good only when your very being is savouring the experience. If it is pleasant, you will wish to be in the moment and prolong it. However if the present condition is discomfort, misery, suffering and pain, you don</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">’</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">t want to be in the moment. Your mind projects, wishes and resolves for a better state and place. To know when to be in the moment and live it in contrast to knowing when to mentally project a better situation to motivate ourselves are skills we need to learn and master for our overall wellbeing.</span></p><p align="justify" class="15" style="line-height: 12.0000pt; margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-para-margin-bottom: 0.0000gd; mso-para-margin-top: 0.0000gd; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-57806170041391654882023-09-20T20:10:00.003+08:002023-09-20T20:10:30.527+08:00State of Mind On My Mind<p><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">STATE OF MIND</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> ON MY MIND</span></b></p><p><b style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">By Dominae Primus</span></b></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I’ve spared a thought, had it stretched as far as I dared and cared. I’ve given it a thought but thinking wants more. I won’t banish the thought since thoughts still welcome me. I won’t start being territorial with thoughts, that will be terrible of me. I gather that doing so makes little sartorial sense. I’m here to speak my mind in a common tongue.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Pay heed, take care. I’ve gone over it thoroughly and I’m not through yet. I’ve thought it over and I’m far from over and close to hover. I’ve made up my mind and it looks pretty good from here.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I’ve spared a penny for your thoughts and in exchange you in turn can spare a cent for sense. While being mindful of inflation, I’ve made an accumulation of sorts. Feel free or feel compelled to add to it. If there’s nothing more, then keep the change. Comes in useful during an Evolution and tends to appreciate during a Revolution. Let the world spin on its axis, whatever the basis, we’ll face this, about face or turn away. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I’m no one-track mind for I trust subject matter drive this train of thought.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Lose me, then madness embraces and consumes. Madness knows nothing of boundaries between affection and digestion. It cements and dements.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">My host claims me as its own, yet the truth is, I am a resident merely. My work makes my host respectable and often I am confused with my host.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What am I ?</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I am the Mind.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Body and Soul are my associates. Soul too is in a similar predicament, being claimed by the Body which it inhabits as its own. I don’t bear a brain but a brain bears me, has to bear with me and holds me tightly in a bear hug.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">My assertion is no apparition although it may haunt.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">With great liberty, you can forswear a Country, Clare can keep her County.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I declare a State of Mind. The State of Mind welcomes the exchange of ideas, transmission of ideals, migration and immigration of thoughts. Asylum is granted to insane suppositions. Entry and Exit checkpoints are situated along the borders of knowledge.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Elsewhere independent nations were formed and declared. Among them were notable nations such as Stagnation, where stag parties and locking horns are commonplace,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Damnation, where the best irrigation experts are channeled, Indoctrination, rich in doctrines with poor outings when it comes to truths, Pollination, a place where flora and fauna bloom with budding sub-nations.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">There were states too such as State-of-the Art, populated by the Science of Technology, State-Of-Emergency, where everything is governed by alarm. Monarchy still reigns in the Principality of Principles, with Cardinal truths as its Constitution.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Those mentioned have their detractors and mechanical tractors.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">With the arguments swinging on both pros and cons, pros try to pass off as cons for the heck of it as cons try to play pros for their lack of it. The drive towards independence is greased with the practicality of interdependence, geared with bothers of nuisance and paved with virtues of patience.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">END</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-5138679205869165782023-09-20T19:57:00.003+08:002023-09-20T19:58:21.775+08:00Food For Thought<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">When fish and chicken evolve they grow Fish Fingers and Chicken Fingers. Even more amazing is when the hoofed buffalo grows Buffalo Wings. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">After that the Chicken leapfrogged everybody else by fusing with a Butterfly to become Butterfly Chicken also known as Chicken Butterfly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The restless ambitious Chicken then took up a form of contact sport and became known as Boxing Chicken. Some chickens have a good sense of rhythm. These are known as Chicken Drumettes. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">They have a lot on their plate having to work as members of a performing band or as session musicians. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-55918365829175457842023-06-26T19:13:00.002+08:002023-06-26T19:13:36.074+08:00Not For Vanity<p> </p><p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Among
shelter from summer swelter </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Huddle
for warmth from wintry bluster </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
thrill to chill of autumnal breeze </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wakening
of spring after the freeze </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
vain pealing bells or pompous stomp </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Silence
runs the course not raucous romp </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Undevour’d
by deceit or doubting pause </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unwavering
belief in creed and cause</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Copyright
Dominae Primus</i></span></span></span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-58283224918480408662023-06-12T15:00:00.003+08:002023-06-12T15:00:25.246+08:00Shelter<p><span style="color: #00000a; font-family: Arial, serif;">Shelter
where hope and beauty reside</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Out
of might and sight where woes betide </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
travails and wails of strident storms </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calm
sanctum negates inner maelstroms </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s
grace in this fractured, fractious daze </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s
well hidden good, in swells, well placed </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
bind in due course with their own kind </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
time, in kinship, with all sublime </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-after: avoid;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Copyright
Dominae Primus</i></span></span></span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-82868931803905036602023-06-06T03:54:00.002+08:002023-06-06T03:54:28.321+08:00Budding Blooms<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Budding Blooms</span></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">................................... </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Flowering buds of varied sorts</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Incipient spurts from homely pods</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Sprouting from bushes rooted in earth</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">So far from beauty of full bloom’s worth </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Evanescent, these budding fledglings</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Omnipresent hopes and misgivings</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Promise of more by what’s to come </div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Much to do before they are done</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">-- Copyright Dominae Primus --</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">This composition is a mirror of life and its uncertainties. You can perform the best of preparations yet some results are out of our hands.</div></div>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-51102932952490800892023-06-01T21:27:00.000+08:002023-06-01T21:27:40.800+08:00Why I describe myself as an 'occasional poet'<p> There is a reason why I describe myself as an 'occasional poet'. To get the process going requires a compelling reason and overdoing it, like busting out rhymes on a daily basis on every occasion is simply very taxing mentally. When it is forced, it places one on the verge of being pretentious. Overdoing it may mean putting oneself on automatic mode. You no longer put in earnest effort. Rather just go in and place whatever that qualifies as a rhyme. That will be such a shame. It's like cheating oneself into a sense of security. In addition I get bored and when I get bored, it is no longer compelling. It went on for about 10 years when I would dedicate a poem close to or on new year's eve about the turning of the year. Never intended that to be such a long term occurrence. But it turned into something quite expected after I was given a nice SMS and decided to respond in kind! Competitive streak I'd say. </p><p>Inspired as one was it does wear off after some number of years. So I stopped posting along that style these few years. However a different direction may be adopted and something else might just end up being posted. A distant Aunt asked my Mum about my new year poems. I think somebody missed my past antics. So my reply was along the line of well I used to do that but I do other subject matter as well! </p><p>It may seem trifling but poetry when done well is serious work and a legitimate artform. It can be draining mentally. One has to chew up quite a stack of reading material, dictionaries and thesaurii before being able to compose anything that's better than casual babble. </p><p>When going through and revising some stuff, if one gets the "What on earth was I thinking?" kind of reaction after reviewing some past work, that affected portion or entire work ought to be revised or deleted. That applies to everything I've ever done. From press releases, to content, edits of others' work and of course my own poetry. </p><p>What causes consternation is that over reliance on artificial intelligence might consign poets and poetry to the status of rara avis or worse "endangered species"! These days the poetry you see is mainly stuff written on physical greeting cards and their digital greeting cards. </p><p>There's no substitute like using real intelligence, acquired experience and genuine effort to generate content. Only then may one say with pride that one had truly honed, grown and matured. </p><div><br /></div>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-66431136383073471832023-05-21T03:01:00.006+08:002023-05-21T03:01:29.187+08:00Well Wishes<p>May you never find yourself in want</p><p>That you remain lifelong realm savant </p><p>Life never perplexes thoughts nor wits </p><p>The will to overcome never wilts</p><p><br /></p><p>Let your needs be always aptly met</p><p>That every want be rightly set </p><p>Virtues greater in what you’ve given </p><p>Compared to bulk of all you’ve taken </p><p> </p><p>--- Copyright Dominae Primus ---</p><p><br /></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-33076158952264840322023-05-21T02:51:00.006+08:002023-05-21T02:51:25.203+08:00From Themes To Gist<p>Started off exploring themes</p><p>While ageing figured out gists</p><p>Need not for repetition</p><p>Need not further expansion</p><p>More of the same conclusion</p><p>At first facets uncovered</p><p>At end their truth discovered </p><p><br /></p><p>---Copyright Dominae Primus---</p><p><br /></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-84665968216331486202023-05-17T15:52:00.003+08:002023-05-17T15:52:47.498+08:00Artful not Artifice<p><u> Artful Not Artifice</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Away with excess of pretences</p><p>What are they but fanciful fences!</p><p>Keep us apart from roots of matter</p><p>Sincere and direct is way better</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep required space for virtuosity</p><p>Keep off from cracks of pomposity</p><p>Grant no refuge at all subterfuge</p><p>Grant no access to wanton excess</p><p><br /></p><p>The lightness of authenticity </p><p>The padded bulk in duplicity </p><p>Virtue has only itself to please </p><p>Keep being authentic not artifice</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Copyright Dominae Primus</i></p><div><br /></div>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-29012890067593197252022-07-01T14:36:00.004+08:002022-07-01T14:36:58.239+08:00Material and Spiritual<p>We will do well to have dual natured goals. Material and spiritual so that we may strive both materially and spiritually. We need the resources cultivated and accumulated in this world for our advancement and needs. We are carried by our merits cultivated and accumulated into and throughout the spiritual realm. </p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-1058392676698598782021-12-23T03:19:00.001+08:002021-12-23T03:19:25.120+08:00Memory and Fragility<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">What is memory? </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tangible and intangible. It can be of value and relevant in a
commercial, emotional and cultural sense. It can be an emotional feeling,
positive or negative, a past sensation pleasant, neutral or unpleasant, a
monument, a trinket, a commemoration of an achievement or concrete fact
supported by other corresponding facts, records and data, all saying that
something or someone once was and such, that such occurred and was done. Memory is a preserved record at its close, at
the beginning or even in the midst of an ongoing activity. As long as there are
those who witnessed it firsthand or those who learned of it from firsthand
witness records vicariously, that is memory preserved. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As long as the records exist and
knowledge passed from generation to generation, memory remains. When the people
who know become fewer as they age and slowly die out, then those records of the
past are crucial. We can only hope that those records and accumulated knowledge
of the past inspire others later to absorb the nobler aspects and good qualities
of the past even as humanity progresses and evolve. Memory and knowledge,
direct and vicarious are both crucial. Memory and knowledge, direct and
vicarious are inextricably intertwined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Memory can fade away or distorted
through willful actions. In some cases, forgotten by subsequent generations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We possess the capability of destroying
ourselves, all accumulated memories and knowledge by our own hand through
mutual destruction. We are all vulnerable and fragile and so is memory.
Humanity as a civilization residing in a planet is fragile as seen from
infinite space. Even so, let us make and preserve memories while plotting new frontiers
and acquiring new knowledge.</span></span></h3>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-32153335224542229852021-11-14T15:45:00.002+08:002021-11-14T15:46:35.423+08:00Peace From Letting Go<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify;">For a moment I asked myself, what
if I let go? </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">What if I stopped? </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Just entertaining that thought, the moment I let
go of all struggle, I felt peace. But I being foolish, I equated my efforts
with ambition and likened it to a sense of who I am, an ultimate aim in life,
justifying my struggle and taking on the uncertainty and anxiety. I likened
cessation as living without aim. Life decided to skip this lesson and teach me
more of others.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To have peace and tranquility,
the anxious mind has to cease its scurrying about and not think of being in
another place to experience fulfilment or a certain point of attainment to
experience happiness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we stop vain pursuit, our
energies will be directed elsewhere with chances of better outcomes and
tangible improvements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Years later, after numerous
encounters and experiences, I let go after thorough contemplation and shrewd
assessment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By ceasing, I felt peace. I
reached the end of misery and anxiety in that matter. I need not wait until the
end of life to realise. I still have purpose but not as frenzied or misdirected
as before. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By ceasing to be foolish, I let
go and released the weight and suffering of tensions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-46074430103097395192021-10-24T16:07:00.001+08:002021-10-24T16:07:19.966+08:00Certainty<p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Don’t sacrifice for an
uncertainty. Commit to certainty. I should know. This was a life lesson that
took me to different turns and corners. Bitter pill to swallow, yet it made me
stronger and better informed. If and when unsure, always retrace the steps to
what the actual aim is. Realign priorities.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-15646706783512819682021-09-23T17:31:00.004+08:002021-09-23T17:31:48.919+08:00Stop chasing the wind and reflect! <p><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Why start grasping at every cause
that quells your anxiety and throwing yourself entirely into a cause just so
that you may experience a measure of being needed and deriving meaning in your
life by running in circles? That is not meaning in life. That is chasing the
wind out of vanity and delusion. The instant we grasp that we have been chasing
the wind while persistently denying the profound truth of that realization, that
is the beginning of our journey in realigning ourselves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-90338396992425789952021-08-17T16:58:00.002+08:002021-08-17T16:58:24.422+08:00'Alternative' is not necessarily a dirty word. <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The media we tune in to today has
been gradually corroded in terms of journalistic standards and independence
whereby opinion is switched in place of factual reports. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Yes, there is a digital divide but it isn’t necessarily
access to devices and information. It is the access to unbiased, centrist, fact
based comparative, warts and all neutrality. Don’t just listen, watch and read
a certain type of corporate media because that may mean thinking and acting a
certain way as if on auto pilot. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Go for
the counter points. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">If it doesn’t quite
add up, form the courage to question rationally. Alternative isn’t a dirty
word. When faced with challenges, don’t you explore alternatives? You know what
dirty is? Silent complicity and unquestioning obedience to totalitarian
tyranny. Tyranny has a dirty trait. It doesn’t know when to quit.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-31848880342761797312021-08-17T00:48:00.000+08:002021-08-17T00:48:18.971+08:00Diversity is strength and weakness. <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: justify;">The strongest links in multicultural and multiethnic nations
is also their weakness. By sowing ethnic and cultural squabbles, reigniting old
grievances and prejudices, these smokescreens distract in such a way that
trifles and nonsense are given prominence while issues of substance, due to
diversionary tactics are conveniently swept under the carpet. To weaken and
ultimately crush the progress achieved over a long period of time in community
and nation building. These stratagems are used to cause political, social and
economic instability. If you live in a multiethnic, multicultural and
multilingual nation, know that hidden hands are attempting to destroy whatever
progress and good work that has been done. The way to destroy a multiethnic,
multicultural and multilingual nation is to instigate different people against
each other. After the smoke and dust, conquer them and their possessions. The
same dirty tricks are used everywhere for the benefit of puppet masters abetted
by self-serving greed of their co-plotters and servants. Beware, the enemies
within and outside.</span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-45741459217127198122021-08-17T00:45:00.000+08:002021-08-17T00:45:12.720+08:00Liberty requires effort.<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The dimwitted, close minded, ignorant
and untaught, who know not the concept of self-determination, </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">liberty, independence and abundance, are
doomed to be subjugated and know not any better than their miserable lot. Unable
to help themselves and unable to appreciate help from others, they know not
anything better than the physical and mental hell they were, are and will
continue to dig themselves in.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once you have liberated yourself
from poverty and ignorance you do not wish to return. Likewise, when one is
liberated from totalitarianism, one does not wish to return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This applies to those who truly understand and
appreciate benefits derived from self-determination, liberty, independence and
abundance along with gratitude. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-16131692836735708322021-08-17T00:37:00.006+08:002021-08-17T00:37:59.156+08:00Differences of opinion is expected.<p> <span style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">You are not everyone and everyone is not you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We can be on good terms even if
we have differing opinions on other matters. That’s mutual respect and
diversity. We don’t have to exhort violence against others. We don’t have to
disregard, belittle and portray someone who only deserves the harshest
treatments just because of a difference in reasoning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a composition that examines
all sides of an argument, there are pro and contra contents and justifications.
During a debate, participants have the need to respect each other and there is
no need to hate each other after the debate. Why is it suddenly abhorrent for
someone to have alternative views which are rationally presented? As much as
possible I refrain from individual attacks, vicious attacks, stinging satire
and self-congratulatory feel good childish jokes. I am not a proponent of
conspiracy theories either. Just because someone has a different rational point
of view does not necessarily make that person a conspiracy theorist or someone
caught up with a cult of personality. If we live life and consider anything and
anyone who does not unhesitatingly, unquestioningly fall in line with our
beliefs, then the only place we can truly thrive in is an echo chamber filled
with mirror images of ourselves. That is the sad and unfortunate result of hate
mongering promoted by most of known mainstream media which brainwashed certain
segments of the population. Irresponsible, divisive, war drum beating,
hostility spewing evil root cause of why friends, relatives and colleagues end
up drawing battle lines and disengaging in recent years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this world I enjoy the work of
many people. I love their professional work and these works have been part of
my growing up years and adult life. Yet the realistic reality is that I am not
obliged to agree with them on matters outside of their best regarded work all
the time. Even among people we admire the most, there will be instances when we
cannot be expected to agree all the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We are individuals with our own
brains. We are people with individual trajectories as we travel between birth
and death. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-73883513822394204142021-07-25T11:57:00.003+08:002021-07-25T11:57:44.081+08:00Simple questions about gloating<p> <span style="text-align: justify;">Mirroring what I have asked about
hate and hating, the same goes with gloating. There are fundamental questions
that we in all walks of life can do by asking ourselves some basic questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Does gloating make you happier,
calmer and at ease with the world?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Does gloating over something or
someone make you a better person?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Does gloating gain you genuine
friends? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Does gloating bring lasting and
constant success, recognition and fulfilment? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Does gloating enrich you,
spiritually and materially?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you are suffering from a
progressive terminal disease, a chronic condition, mentally and or physically,
does gloating heal you?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you are facing bankruptcy,
financial ruin or financial hardship, does gloating improve the situation? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What has the source of your gloating
done to you, your loved ones and those who mean something to you to deserve so
much gloating over? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you’re going to die tomorrow,
are you still hell bent on gloating? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you are someone who has faith
in some system of belief and a being of higher intelligence, does it bring you
closer to the core of your beliefs and this great being by gloating? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If it does any of the above, by
all means go on gloating. <o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-29864669369150634572021-06-09T16:38:00.005+08:002021-06-09T16:38:46.795+08:00Simple questions about hate.<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Too much media spin that has been
dished out is full of direct and indirect resentment and hate towards those
they deem as their enemies and its audience too would do well to take heed.
However, all this hate, resentment, derision, ridicule in popular culture, in
mainstream media, coverage and opinion pieces is all up to the individual to
yield to this relentless indoctrination or to carefully assess, rationalise and
question all those. There are a few fundamental questions that we in all walks
of life can do by asking ourselves some basic questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does hating make you happier,
calmer and at ease with the world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does hate make you a better
person?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does hate gain you genuine
friends? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does hate bring lasting and
constant success, recognition and fulfilment? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Does hate enrich you, spiritually
and materially?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are suffering from a
progressive terminal disease, a chronic condition, mentally and or physically,
does this hate heal you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are facing bankruptcy,
financial ruin or financial hardship, does this hate improve the situation? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What has the source of your hate
done to you, your loved ones and those who mean something to you to deserve so
much hate? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you’re going to die tomorrow,
are you still hell bent on hating? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you are someone who has faith
in some system of belief and a being of higher intelligence, does it bring you
closer to the core of your beliefs and this great being by hating? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If it does any of the above, by
all means go on hating. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-45485741209346925872021-02-28T13:07:00.003+08:002021-02-28T13:07:31.566+08:00Gather our wits! We're made from tougher stuff.<p><span style="text-align: justify;">I am not particularly alarmed or
moved by doom and gloom sayers about climate change. We as humans have lived
under a Damocles sword, a sword that hangs by a thread above our heads for so
long, it is foolish to go scampering over the threat of climate change, nay,
climate evolution as the globe has always been changing its weather patterns
through millions of years. From the time when all continents were one and to
now when they have broken apart, climate has always been changing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Those before my generation and after have lived under the threat of total annihilation at any point in time during
the post atomic age, right after the atomic bomb was invented in 1945. The
threat of gradual climate change does not send me shuddering with fear. What is
gradual annihilation from which we still have time to make adjustments compared
with instant annihilation from total nuclear war in which we are caught
unprepared?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Stop being alarmist. Be rational.
That is the quality that will save us all in our physical form, in this known
realm. Let’s face the facts. Humanity has the ability to blow itself to smithereens
at any time. Only rational thought and self-preservation stops that
possibility. <o:p></o:p></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-21095618288627488802021-01-29T18:30:00.005+08:002021-01-29T18:30:40.192+08:00Meritocracy before Diversity<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The obsession over diversity has to cease. Truth, Justice, Meritocracy. Meritocracy is the best basis of judgement before diversity. Diversity for its own sake leads to the dilemma of choice and the twisted rhetoric of allocation and representation. It’s an abyss that hurtles down very swiftly unless the realization of the inherent flaws and errors it spawns steers a sincere return the state to an equilibrium, that of a blank slate. Mindful of truth and justice, start with meritocracy.</span></p>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245527.post-28275684850210192652020-10-27T15:12:00.006+08:002023-09-14T19:14:28.481+08:00Be better not equal! <p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Too often we read and hear about equality and demands for equality. That is beneficial to a certain extent in a socio-economic point of view. However, don't ever let demands and aspirations for equality blindside our minds. There is something even greater and that is the possibility that we can elevate and excel rather than merely equal or mirror the achievements made possible by the privileges conferred upon others before. Aspire and work towards being better, not just equal. </span></p><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">If you are unable to accept the said premise, then ruminate on this. Why should being equal mean committing the same mistakes, injustices, suffering and unnecessary harm that those before had caused upon themselves and others around them? We can, we should, learn well and rise above those flaws. Be much better, not equal.</span></div>Dominae Primus WLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184332598139709053noreply@blogger.com