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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Laziness and stupidity are very different qualities. They share, though, a few superficial features. When either are in evidence, mistakes are made and essential arrangements are neglected. It is now hard to know quite why a certain situation has become so silly. Is a certain person being deliberately awkward or just accidentally unhelpful? Is someone refusing to see the obvious or are they just too dumb to recognise what’s right before their eyes? You need to know which it is because you are now being asked to help sort out someone else’s mess. First, make quite sure that they cannot do it for themselves
We all love to give advice. It makes us feel powerful, wise and important. The trouble is, we gain the same amount of satisfaction from the process, regardless of whether the advice we are giving is good or bad. We don’t much care whether our words end up leading people further towards the light or deeper into the darkness, as long as they provide us with a rosy glow of righteousness whilst we are uttering them. Now, about the information you are currently seeking. The planets strongly suggest that you may profit from deciding to ignore, or even defy, the suggestions that are currently being made.
Eventually, we can get used to most things. If continually assailed by an unpleasant noise, we will find some way to “filter it out.” If confronted with a lingering, noxious odour, we will eventually shut down the receptors in the part of our brain that recognises such smells. We can even handle pain in this way if subjected to it often enough. Sometimes, though, we end up protecting ourselves unnecessarily. You now feel inclined to toughen yourself to what, you expect, is due to be an imminent factor that is very hard to take. Actually though, a joyous experience awaits you. Don’t desensitise yourself.
Why do movies cost so much to make? Even simple parts of a film, involving just a couple of people holding a conversation, require camera operators, lighting engineers, make-up artists, wardrobe assistants, sound recordists, continuity monitors, writers, directors, producers, researchers, plus caterers to keep all these busy people fed. You must be careful now, not to look at your life and feel that it is inadequate in some way because it fails to match the standards set by some Hollywood drama you once watched. You can’t create an artificial impression, but you can, if you relax, bring forth a very real kind of natural magic.
We all love to give advice. It makes us feel powerful, wise and important. The trouble is, we gain the same amount of satisfaction from the process, regardless of whether the advice we are giving is good or bad. We don’t much care whether our words end up leading people further towards the light or deeper into the darkness, as long as they provide us with a rosy glow of righteousness whilst we are uttering them. Now, about the information you are currently seeking. The planets strongly suggest that you may profit from deciding to ignore, or even defy, the suggestions that are currently being made.
Eventually, we can get used to most things. If continually assailed by an unpleasant noise, we will find some way to “filter it out.” If confronted with a lingering, noxious odour, we will eventually shut down the receptors in the part of our brain that recognises such smells. We can even handle pain in this way if subjected to it often enough. Sometimes, though, we end up protecting ourselves unnecessarily. You now feel inclined to toughen yourself to what, you expect, is due to be an imminent factor that is very hard to take. Actually though, a joyous experience awaits you. Don’t desensitise yourself.
Why do movies cost so much to make? Even simple parts of a film, involving just a couple of people holding a conversation, require camera operators, lighting engineers, make-up artists, wardrobe assistants, sound recordists, continuity monitors, writers, directors, producers, researchers, plus caterers to keep all these busy people fed. You must be careful now, not to look at your life and feel that it is inadequate in some way because it fails to match the standards set by some Hollywood drama you once watched. You can’t create an artificial impression, but you can, if you relax, bring forth a very real kind of natural magic.
