Where do you find life's challenges..?

[AYHJA]

As we all certainly become older, and hopefully wiser, what do you find has been consistently the most challenging thing you deal with on a regular basis..? What, up until this point, do you feel has been your greatest nemesis in a sort of stereotypical comic book sense..? Who is the Joker to your Batman..? The Magneto to your Dr. Xavier..? Not necessarily ''bad'' just your nemesis...Your alternate take...

So, lets say you're a REALLY helpful person...If you see a stranger drop something on the floor, you may pick it up and hand it to them...

You may find the challenge in that, when you drop something, nobody does that same thing for you...Or, if you drop something on your way to another place, realize you dropped it and return to find it gone...Superman says you should pick it up and hand it to them, cause its the right thing to do...Lex Luthor says you should leave it or pick it up and keep it because 99% of the time, that's what someone in your shoes would do...The challenge is that they're both right..!

For me, I have always been a thinker...Deductive reasoning is something I probably picked up as a youth reading books that had different endings, depending on the choices that you made while reading...It opened my mind to myriad of possibilities that exist with every decision...

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I watch a special on the History channel I think, that talked about how we spawn new dimensions at decision points in our life...A 'new you' is created so to speak, if you decide to turn and go to the store before heading home...In other words, you exist in this universe, but within this universe is a sort of 'multi-verse' in which we are carrying on our lives should we make one decision or the other...In thinking and expanding on that, I wondered if this was a proponent of things like Deja Vu...
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Even small things, like when to brush my teeth, I think about in depth...To me, everything must make sense, because it must follow or adhere to some sort of pattern...Living my life this way has given me great things...But undoubtedly, it has given me my fair share of problems, because not all things have patterns, or have patterns that I can sense right away...

Many of my challenges come from that, I can usually predict outcomes with high accuracy...A part of me wants to, despite that, allow things to follow their course...Another part of me wants to save me the grief...

:?: Simple Stupid: I usually brush my teeth around noon...I can know I'm gonna eat lunch at 12:30, but I'll brush my teeth anyway, eat lunch and just have to brush them again when I'm done...If you are like me, you'll know why...If you're not like me, you probably won't, and thus more likely to be one of the people I can't stand, cdr...

So, what about you..?

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

So, basically nutshellwise: You tend to Overthink things. Even the most mundane blahzay stuff. At least you acknowledge this is as much a curse as blessing.

Many of my challenges come from that, I can usually predict outcomes with high accuracy...A part of me wants to, despite that, allow things to follow their course...Another part of me wants to save me the grief...

Butt kenya predict the outcomes of things that are crucial to You & your well-being? therein lies the question. You can prognosticate until the cows come home, yet if your foresight doesn't help thee when it matters most, tis rather pointless & counter-productive.

[AYHJA]

Not really over think things in the sense that you become so gathered in thought you don't act, but more in the sense of being prepared...It doesn't really hinder me, persay...For instance, if I walk into a crowded room, I usually situate myself near an exit, identify potential 'hotheads', and park accordingly...In other words, I take out insurance on my actions, lol...

Butt kenya predict the outcomes of things that are crucial to You & your well-being?

Isn't everything we do crucial to this..? I tend to think so...Any decision, no matter how small can have grave consequences...My aunt that died in the car cash last year...She died because of a flash in the pan moment of a man who had dropped his cell phone and bent down to pick it up while driving...

You could make a bad joke, for example...I mean, you could hate you that you said the it second you delivered the punchline...Maybe you make an ethnic joke to someone, and they relay the joke to your boss, who finds it offensive...Maybe you see someone visibly hurt, upset, and crying, and ask them the dumbest question in the world...

Are you alright..?
-- (Yes, I'm fine, I just like balling my eyes out in public you moron, lol)

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

The thing with your aunt I see as very different to deciding what cereal you're gonna have in the morning. Yes, there is cause and effect to everything, but the 2 are very different creatures. the choice of cereal can really only affect your taste buds and innards. How you drive affects & effects everyone else. There is a RESPONSIBILITY to being allowed to drive (A responsibility I believe far too many toss aside or refuse to acknowledge sadly) , A responsibilty to Yourself & anyone else on the road whether pedestrian or other drivers which must be at the forefront of your brain or at least in the back of your mind every time one jumps behind the wheeel.

As far as sussing out the situation in a crowded room, I am exactly the same way in such situations. Getting a lay of the land always comes in handy , period. Internally, I'm almost Terminator-like in seeing what's the what. Common sense really for those with survival instincts.

[AYHJA]

Yes, there is cause and effect to everything, but the 2 are very different creatures. the choice of cereal can really only affect your taste buds and innards.

In the short range, short scope of things, sure...But every action has logical progression...It does not always mean something negtiave though...I've done some pretty ridiculous things while driving a car and never killed anyone in an accident...But my mind tells me that sometimes, completing these actions gives me the desired results, whereas not completing them does the opposite...

What if maybe my aunt had decided against having a sit down lunch that day..? That wasn't a decision that ultimately ended up affecting just her taste buds and stomach, right..? Or, how about Maybe the guy who killed my aunt decides not to pick up the phone while driving and pulls to the side of the road and that accident doesn't happen...Instead as he's getting into his car someone else driving reckless veers to miss him, but they do not...A soccer mom with a van full of children rushing to get home plows into him, flips several times and ignites...

I heard this quote in a cheesy movie, but it pretty much ascertains my thought processes...It goes:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

[Aemeth]

I have some forms of Ayhja's struggles, but usually I just "give up" because I am not mentally strong enough to manage my life like that, so I in turn just let things happen...

My struggle has to do with constantly obsessing about self-improvement in every aspect of life. I want to be getting physically stronger, in better shape, better at basketball, better at video games, better at playing the guitar, better at art, better at rapping, better at singing, more books read, more social time, the list goes on. I feel like if I have a decent amount of R&R time, I start to feel like I am the sole cause of entropy in the universe. I wish I could just break myself up into 10 or even 100 different people to learn about the world, but I can't. I am just one dude. But I am still going to try to be 100 people at once.