It Might Hurt To Ask As Well As To Get The Answer

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/According to a popular English idiom, it doesn’t hurt to ask. Really? If you have never asked a question that hurt, like maybe on a topic that hurts you to discuss, please look up what that is like for some trauma victims, but please don’t ask them about it in case you might set off their trigger points.

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You Can Only Sit On The Fence For So Long Without Hurting

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/Have you ever sat on a fence? If yes, hopefully, it wasn’t a fence with pointed pickets! If not, imagine it. Either way, you would probably agree that it would hurt after a while, with all your weight loaded on to the small surface area that are the tops of those pickets. By chance, English has an idiom of sitting on the fence to mean waiting, which has the exact same outcome.

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Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last And Soon It Will Be

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/What would you do tomorrow if you knew it was going to be the last day of your life? Be honest and include details to check its viability. Now that you’ve had your last day and were ready to die, you find out that you have one more day to live. What will you do in that second last day? Repeat to try a third last day. How long do you think you could sustain this lifestyle before you would be hit with disastrous or mortal outcomes? Maybe you’d run out of no money, or be dead from an unhealthy lifestyle, or be incarcerated if doing something criminal were on your mind, or something else disastrous or mortal. Even if you just took time to appreciate everything around you, with this last day of your life context all day, how long do you think you could sustain this last day of your life way of living before you would really hit the last day of your life, if no intervention took place?

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You Have True Power Only If You Can Share It Because Otherwise It Has You

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/Power is all about having control, mostly over others, but also over things and circumstances. Powerlessness is all about having no control over something, including being under something’s complete control. So for anyone with power who is unable to share it to any meaningful extent, I ask do they have power, or does power have them?

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The Best And Worst Stories We Each Know Are The Ones We Tell Ourselves

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/What’s the best thing you’ve ever convinced yourself of? What’s the worst thing you’ve ever justified to yourself? What are the best and worst stories you’ve told people? How do they all compare?

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