Common Core and/or Core Common.

Person Specific.

Not to be bombastic here. A term coined a long time ago. Alongside a person I grew up with. Who I walked along side with and was trying to figure it out. So I could figure it out. Over compensation of the lesson is never good. But where to start? Where to begin?

But. Hey. We all forget. So in the interest of remembering the good versus evil of dwelling. Let’s pay the conception a visit.

Belief in origins that are good, is just, well good. Naïveté is the sincerest form of honesty. The problem is, it gets pounded into the ground. A lot. And may cause a heart to beat in unnrhythmically bad patterns.

Safe to say. We may all have had an out of body experience we do not want to remember. However, labelling has never worked. Will not work and only drives the apple cart to where we all are now.

Pointless, clueless, and less. Relentless. Relentlessly trying to “one up” each other. Forgetting miserably what the fight and fuss was all about.

Why?

Name calling. A doll is not a baby. A baby is not a doll. A man is not a hunk. A hunk is not a man. Last I knew they were both,

A person.

Not to be graded, de-graded, one-upped, or one-downed. Run into the ground.

In addition. To boot. Word acronyms and add-ons such as bigot, bias, and prejudice thrown into the delicious cookie jar of life.

Ugh.

I do not think any of us realize the mess we all created. Because as we moved through life, we all “bought in”. One way or another. We all thought, I think, we gotta work with what we got.

Eureka!

Now we can start taking things seriously. Phew. I, for one, am glad about that, or this, or the concept of:

Are you serious?

About anyone or anything?

Money talks. You bet your booty it does. But where will you draw your line? Watching the adults? Watching the influencers? Watching the cat? Watching the dog?

I vote for #4.

Disclaimer: I believe that Dog is God spelled backwards. (Forwards, sideways, up, down, back, forth-way you slice, dice or rice it.)

So, where does that leave me? I dunno.

But my hope is that it leaves you with a thought that we do not have to **** on one another for their to be progress, I.E. progressiveness by possessiveness.

Huh?

Possessed by our beliefs that the other guy is bad, and stopping at nothing to make them so. Respectfully adding, that we all become possessed by something that makes us possessed. Possessions and/or are or can be validations.

Huh. or. Huh? Exactly. We have so buried our heads in our phones that we forgot. To look another PERSON in their eyes and ask,

How ARE you?

With all of us having an out of body experience, who is wearing the pants, boots, or whatever down here on the ground? Who is grounded enough to make a decision? Without labelling, bigotry, bias, prejudice. Please admit to oneself and to all when thought caused you to try and

“Sell it”.

I dunno. We are all looking so far down, because looking up can be quite painful, too difficult. That is, if God is “on your team”. I kinda think he would sternly look at us and ask,

Are you serious?

While some sit on a comfy couch or bench or chair and the rest of the subjects run around in hamster-like- circles, God, just shakes His head and prays that we will “get it” or figure it out”. Do something. Do anything.

Thank God He is patient. Has the patience. Of a Saint. And He is kind and humble. I, for one, am glad.

How DOES He do that? Maybe by not rolling one person’s regret into another person’s deject. What a novel concept. Wouldn’t you say? I would. Why?

You coulda just asked. US for help. There is a sick, twisted concept of sickening and twisting a concept. Just to get ahead. Seriously, One needs to first remember a person is a person. And depending on where you sit or stand on that core common core concept, may God have mercy on your soul and thoughts.

Possessed or possessed. Person specificity required. The best way, if able and capable, to attack is to not attack. (This I know for sure). To go along with the current “State of Affairs” is bringing us all down.

One of the best ways to learn? Sit across a table from another. From one another. If the person returns, time and again, there is a rapport, a connection worth building, possibly via repair. Call it salvaging the savage. Salvaging and building on. That is a really good start because, and especially when there is a history.

And not one of us comes here without a history. Good, bad, indifferent, whatever. Just resist the urge to

”Sell it”. For something that it is not. Worth. Value. All have/come at/with a price. And we all have both. To someone.

So, how ‘bout this mess we all created? How will you tidy up yours? Reflection, Reactivity, Reflexivity, Recourse.

Sounds like a good start wouldn’t you say? Hard work for sure. But needed and necessary. No one is immune. Finish this sentence: Business will still churn with the desire to profit off of……..

That’ll tell ya a lot. Of what you need to know. It’ll set the course, reset the course on a path to true and good reconstruction. But along the way, bringing a human, a being, into the abusive nature of the core, and “selling it” as a right is not right.

Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me. Goodness gracious. Resist the hamster exercises of aimlessly runnin’ on that wheel attempting to exercise your rights.

The next time you find yourself charting out, heading out on your next course, when you see a fork in the road,

Take it.