Category Archives: Goals

Two Timelines

April 11, 2023Aging, Character, Goals, My Poetry, Religionjackpelham

Life’s big events happen on one timeline
And the reckoning of them on another—
The latter being often the more important,
For I do believe we were put here
Both to learn and to decide.

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To Do But Not To Be

March 17, 2023Character, Cognitive Bias, Decoupling, Dysrationalia, Goals, My Poetry, Paradigms, Religion, The Willjackpelham

How curious that a man
Can be willing to do a thing
And yet not be willing to be it—
That he will commit to it outwardly
And even for impressive periods of time
And yet not love it with all his inner being—
And live on for years divided about it in his spirit!

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Not All I Want

March 16, 2023Character, Decoupling, Goals, My Memes, My Poetry, The Willjackpelham

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Pushing Through

March 16, 2023Character, Cognitive Bias, Decoupling, Dysrationalia, Goals, My Memes, My Poetry, Religion, The Willjackpelham

Pushing through becomes ironic
When stands in his own way.

Down 100 Pounds; 55 More to Go!

March 15, 2023Character, Cognitive Bias, Decoupling, Disappointment, Dysrationalia, Fitness, Friendship, Goals, Religion, The Willjackpelham

My weight as of this morning: 15 March 2023. This is 100 pounds below my all-time high, which was in 2016.

I need to lose 55 pounds to get to 200 pounds, which will be somewhere in the ballpark of a healthy weight for me. And while losing 55 pounds sounds like quite a feat, I am at least encouraged that, as of this morning, I have already lost 100 pounds from my all-time high of 355 (in 2016). It has not been easy, and I expect it to get harder as I go. But for what it’s worth, I do believe I can do it—with help.

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In the Soulless City

March 14, 2023Goals, My Memes, My Poetry, Nature, Religionjackpelham

I have always loved the land
And am grieved to this day
That I must live smothered
In the soulless city.

And still there lingers the hope
However faint
That somehow
It will be made right
Some time before I die.

But either way
I still hope for a place in
That country not my own
Which shall be better still by far.

Life Is a Messy Business

March 2, 2023Character, Decoupling, Disappointment, Goals, My Memes, My Poetry, Religionjackpelham

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People’s Minds are Messy

February 25, 2023Character, Decoupling, Dysrationalia, Friendship, Goals, My Poetry, Paradigmsjackpelham

People’s minds are messy.
In many things involving both our understanding
And the way we explain that understanding
We are fuzzy and imprecise and technically incorrect
In some regards, even if not in every regard.

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