SQUARE Pegs

"Square peg, round hole." 

Expression and/or Paradigm.  

We all have days like these, unfortunately some more than others. One day you're the hammer, another day you're the cylinder, and everything fits...but then suddenly you're "Square".

The day may begin with the best of intentions, but there are always those where you have the foresight of the impending reality that you are going to be that square peg in that round hole.

Outlook, unfortunately unlike hindsight , isn't 20/20.

No matter how you try to fit and you want to make things work, those "best of intentions" that one has won't lend you any credence or votive of success no matter what you try to do. You want to be that "little engine that could" and keep at it, no matter the consequences.

Defeat is never a wont, but sometimes the old adage of  "Next" best fits these type of days.

Having been that Square Peg most of my life, I believe I'm more than apt to use that word "Next".

Stubbornly stoic and stoically stubborn, "I yam what I yam", and although try to fit in any of the societal models that are wanted and needed, have always preferred taking the path that I deem right and necessary. A compass whether it be moral or other, is a good thing to have.

Keeps you on the right path and going in the right direction.

Not always accurate to the opinions and perceptions of others, the choices that lead us on our path constitute the fabric of what makes each of us unique in our being. Choice is the key word here, and just the mere fact that we are constantly able to make choices, does give each of us the opportunity to control the path we follow, so that we can always strive for that "Next" if we have to.

Public and pressured "sway" that you choose not to adapt to makes you that square, which once again, ain't always a bad thing. Personal choices are choices just as professional ones are.

They are what we make them, and they in turn make us.

Life is choice, as it is full of choices.

Right or wrong, square or round.

Fit your own shape, just be yourself.

There is always..."Next".

“You can’t fix what ain’t broke.”

People are people.

Simple words that in their understanding can either build, or break, a bridge.

Yet accepted open-mindedly, these simple words can paint a picture that needs not so many words.

In essence, the acceptance of these coinages is what delineates the forethought that self-help, self-improvement, and self-awareness are not necessarily the necessity of our well-being.

Yet through the moral grace and sanctity of humanity, we are each able to see the greater good that is housed within us, and recognize that what are  normally deemed as problems and issues are but everyday steps and hurdles that must be surpassed in order to get us to that next stage of personal growth and development.

What separates us, as humans, as people, and as society at the best and worst of times, is our ability and capability of independent thought and decision making. These are processes based on experience and learning, and not necessarily in that order, and neither necessarily at “like” ratios.

There are multiple teachings of the inherent battles of what we see as good versus evil, and the values that make up the decisions that guide us in our chosen paths. We make decisions along these lines, but primarily based on what we have established as core values.

This is what constitutes, people being people.

From birth, we are blank slates. Open to thought, expression, guidance and moulding.

Decisions based upon decisions, always with the purport that good outweighs the bad, and the decision made is the “best” decision.

A parent is always portrayed as wanting what’s “best” for their child, but “best” can be interpreted in so many different ways. Upbringing, education, and protection, are often found to have the word “best” as a pre-cursor. This just proves that, as exemplified in every day life, the best is not always better.

Faults, errors, missteps. They don’t make us weaker, they make us human. Perfection is an ideal glamorized through media, and marketing. Realization that we don’t have to “Photoshop” life, is at the forefront of accepting that true beauty is within, and translates to the real world in the real methods of your actions and your efforts.

The ideal of one’s child being perfect, of being “golden”, is the want of every parent that brings a child into the world.

I have never prescribed to that.

My ideology is simpler, and is very much my own. Not omnipotent in any way, but just a way of life that has been learnt through example, through experience, and for want of children that are, very basically, “happy” for want of a simply termed word.

Happy doesn't necessarily have to be constantly smiling and beamingly overjoyed. One can just exude contentment in who they are and what they do, there does not have to be method to their efforts, but just the want to do so.

Good and evil, incurring thought of effort versus reward, divide these decisions each and every day of our lives.

The great and wise “Yoda” said it best: “Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.”

Smart actions and smart reactions, made by positive decisions, are the crux to any solutions to the hurdles that life gives us.

Of those, there will always be.

Feigning that there won’t be is just wishful thinking.

A seed doesn't stay a seed. It grows, it matures, and time and experience make that seed into the tree that it becomes. It waves in the wind, it sways to the weather, yet it ever grows bigger and stronger.

A tree does what it is born to do.

Unconsciously.

We do what we do in our growth.

By nature.

Nurture the Nature.

2013

Reset.

Reboot.

Restart.

Fresh territory, and a clean slate to break into another New Year.

It is with these ideals that we look forward to January 1st, giving a fixed time to give a kick to starting a fresh calendar (no-thanks to the Mayans), and giving forethought to the 2013 to be.

Family and friends, friends and family; are the framework of the year to come, with the added want of health and happiness thrown in.

The thankful memories and experiences of 2012, have given us a great place to start this new year. Great friends, great times and great music, forged to make many moments that much more revered and remembered.

The time and experiences of this past year, as those before, have been educational and inspiring. I've found 2012 a turning point, and look forward to the time to come.

With these simplest of points; I wish you the Best of Year's to come.

May Health be Plenty

May Happiness be in your Hand

and 

May Love be in your Heart. 

May Music remind of all these things

and

May Family and Friends accompany you in All

Wishing you a Great 2013!!!