Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 27, 2021 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 2 |
Some two weeks under forest canopy and ocean fog on a current road trip through New England, a final three days of rain and mist and chill driving up the Maine coast…and despite the primordial beauty, I’m thinking,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 12, 2021 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Society | 0 |
…in our lives, our day-by-day and hour-by-hour lives. In our aboriginal existence, we were like our fellow animals, always on the watch…against hunger, predators, toxic insects or plants, unfriendly tribes. Who had...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 11, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, Notes, Search, The self | 0 |
… are twenty-five 2 year-olds trying to get out. (Cue audience laughter) I don’t know who first said this, and I presume it was in jest. But they spoke much truth as well. Inside each of us are several two-year-olds,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…make something happen, or watch? Or just hope someone got the plate number of the car that hit you? .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Creativity, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 0 |
I’m reminded of the “three kinds of people” adage: some make things happen, some watch them happen, and some wonder what happened. The “makers of happenings,” stand apart. They have a spark, a...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2021 | Change, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 0 |
Most of us know the proverb about the two dogs within us, the good and the bad. We could grow into either. It depends on which we feed. Whether or not it’s that simple, a few things are true enough. Emotions arise from...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 15, 2021 | Contentment, Expectations, Human Nature, Notes, Politics | 0 |
Musturbation and shouldism… The more I step away from opinions about human behavior and politics, the less I need to follow news and current events. I may do so to stay informed, I may even form opinions…which I...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 3, 2021 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 0 |
To become whole, we need to recognize that we do not consist of a single “self,” but of several selves. Only in the most advanced of individuals are they in harmony with one another. Instead, they most likely are in...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 7, 2020 | Expectations, Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Politics, Search | 0 |
…disappointed by our friends, disappointed by our lovers, by our families, our churches or political party, and even by our country. It’s because we expect too much. We forget that everyone else is as human as we are. It’s...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 3, 2020 | Human Nature, Notes, Search | 0 |
…people as a species, that is. That’s one insight reading history gives the thoughtful. The same traits we witness today among friends and family, politicians, celebrities, men and women, the powerful, the rich and...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 1, 2020 | Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Search, The self | 1 |
…and the inherent difficulties surrounding it. In my experience, discontent arises out of dissatisfaction. The greater (and more pernicious) the discontent, the deeper the dissatisfaction. And the deepest dissatisfaction...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 29, 2020 | Change, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society | 0 |
…that humans have evidenced in every society and civilization since we came down from trees: tribalism; otherism; xenophobia; social hierarchy; gender distinctions; religion; violence; mob psychology; group conformity;...
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