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Why not finish university so at least you have a qualification as an engineer. Then work for 9 months. During that time set your goal to travel to, say Germany. Learn to speak German. Arrange to work in Germany in 12 months time. After 9 months, pack your bag and travel to Germany and tour Germany for 3 months and refine your German language. Then start your job as an engineer in Germany. Then start the whole process again, visiting a new country each year.

Normally a person who pays back their loans, to their parents, can borrow again from them. However, if you have no job, then how are you going to pay them back. It's not prudent for your parents to loan hard earned to someone without income. Why not do what most others do to get money - work for living. You're just 19, there is plenty of time to save up your money to take massive action in life. But don't be surprised if after all that work, and saving, you may rethink blowing it on some massive action in life you had in mind beforehand. Easy money easily it goes. Hard earned money usually gets spent wisely.

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Once other people are involved ethics comes into play with honesty. There is a famous ethical example of this, where nuns were hiding Jewish children in a convent and a Nazi platoon leader asked the head nun if any Jewish children were in the convent. To be honest meant the lives of the children, to be dishonest meant the possible life and/soul of the nun. However, we can be totally honest about ourselves to others, if you value your truth above pride and vanity.

It's okay to be the only one who talks sense. At least you will know you make sense. Seriously though, the more truthful you become the more isolated you may find yourself from others. Most are honest when they need to be, but most prefer to avoid exposing their own truth to others. And this is wherever you go, whether you travel, stay put, in a saloon, or in a church. But all of this does not matter anymore, because truth becomes your best friend. You would rather be alone with truth, than with a crowd of deceived.

Thanks. That is true, that reason drives a person. Usually the reason is either fear or love based. My previous post was to explain that willpower ought not to be considered as something that is needed throughout the goal, but only to initiate it. Many people do not realize that and give up before even trying.

Let's assume a person is suffering from low self-esteem (ego-energy). Their ego is largely based on shattered hopes (the bankrupt idealist). They need to find a new hope and to rebuild self on a more solid footing of truth, reality and love. In this way, they learn the truth about their ego and can learn to not rely on it like they used to. In fact, they can build up enough truth and love to no longer needing validation (humble and meek) like the ego does. So, a healthy ego is one who is okay with being not okay (so to speak). The fears which once ruined the ego has been replaced with the love of truth. Though it likes the love, but the truth keeps it quiet, humble and meek. Cultivating it? Deep introspection of one's truth, and accepting it, (eventually) puts one's ego in a safe, calm, soft place (which it loves). For it knows that it no longer needs to work so hard from keeping the person in denial of itself. It has already been exposed, dissected, de-mythivized.

I find that it all boils down to two reasons: we do things either out of fear or out of love.

Yes you can. I have lost many materialistic things in my life and at first I always got stressed, angry, and grieved over my losses. Then later I learnt to accept and let go of my investments into materialism, beliefs and relationships. That does not mean that I do not make investments, but it does mean that I regularly let go of them. Anything I fear losing means I have to ask myself if I can let go of it. As soon as I can honestly say that I will be okay without it, then my investment, at that moment, has depleted itself. The hardest investment to regularly let go of, for me, is relationships. I have to let go of it every day. Before going to sleep, I ask myself if I can be okay if I never saw my girlfriend again. Until I can say I am okay with that, then I sleep like a baby.

Happiness is a releasing emotion, much like love and gratitude. The opposite is tension. Acceptance is the key which unlocks tension, and creates gratitude, love and happiness. If you are not happy, then there is some person, place, thing or situation you are not accepting. As soon as you accept it, its tension vanishes. From that liberation of tension causes one to be grateful, happy and loving.

Everybody is a free agent regardless of whatever circumstance they may find themselves. Even a forced slave is a free agent, though their body may not be. However, what most people tend to forget/deny is that we, as an individual, become totally responsible for it. That means, we cannot blame any person, place, thing or situation for our choices.

Installed the control panel onto the console and wired the harness to the three terminal strips. Now I have to make another wiring harness which goes from the three terminal strips to the two connectors located on the back wall of the console. These connectors will have plugs and cables connected between the console and the display diorama.

You (mind's way of making sense of itself) is a by-product of brain (body) activity. So the 'you' is a mental fabrication (story) of the body. It's not real, though it can strongly seem real, because it's intermingled (mentally) with all other body senses.

@Damir Elezi What is your goal? I love cycling, but without a goal I was cycling nowhere (beside going places). Then I tried racing, and that created a goal, to win races. So I started to find more time for training. I started to go up in cycling grades and then I stopped progressing. I had to change my goal again. This time it was Masters Championships, and found more time for training like a champion. All I did was train, work, eat and sleep. Nothing else. I eventually raced in the World's Masters Road Cycling Championships in Austria. Without a goal, there is no need.

The point is to learn how to 'get there' without having to go hard.

There is a myth that one needs to will-the-power throughout the goal one wants to achieve. That sounds similar to forcing oneself to do something they don't want to do (self-enslavement). But that would be insane, because nobody does anything they really don't want to do, unless forced to by other than self. So we have something we want to do, but there is something stopping us to do it. For example, I want to get out of the house and ride my bike, but the weather is cold and windy. It seems that the obstacle is the bad weather, but is it? Why not dress to suit the weather conditions, that should solve it. No? Then what is really stopping me? It's stepping out of a warm home into the cold windy weather in the first place! So all I need is the willpower to step out into the cold and start cycling. That is less than five minutes of willpower required to initiate the action I wanted to do anyway. So, by the time I am a few blocks away from home, wearing warm clothing, and enjoying the ride. And, to my surprise, no longer needing to utilize willpower. Most actions and behaviours, once initiated, start to run on their own purpose and desire.

If I were you I would just stay with my truth. That is, to stay with what I know is right for my integrity (whole and undivided). It is these situations where you may find yourself tested. In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace never surrendered his integrity and lived and stayed with his truth right to the end.

It can be daunting to realize that one is totally responsible for their own life (with or without God). There is nothing to fear about responsibility. It only means that you are response-able, regardless if your response is a poor one or not. Everybody makes poor responses now and again. So, it is easy to become fearful of making poor decisions, but everybody makes them, and nobody is perfect. Trying to view existence the same way as everybody else does (each a different version of existence) will throw you off balance. Just focus on what kind of existence you wish to live, that would bring you to your fulfill potential. The closer you get there the more you allow existence, outside of yourself, to be. What becomes important is living (response-able) to your own existence.

I have tattoos too. They are old and getting blurred. Each one represents a time in my life. They are reminders of how I was at that time, and how far I have come since then. Because they are part of my journey of self-actualization, I have no regret or feel any shame for what they represent. I isolated the above comments to show you what lessons a tattoo could remind me of if I were you. The tattoo would remind me to accept poor decisions, to be more patient, more aware of inner feelings, to not conform to trends just to fit in with others, accept how I look (tattoo and all), and accept that self-actualization does not mean self-perfection. And finally, that the way out is to accept, accept, accept. So, in a way, your tattoo is a great reminder to stay on track towards self-improvement. That is unique in itself, don't you think.

Truth, and the Love that loves me.

Needed a break from the wiring side of the project. so I decided to do some landscape modelling. Well, preparation really. Some of the river bank landscape is made from rocks. I discovered (on Internet) a good way to create imitation rock is to break-up cork to the sizes required. The cork I used was from those hand-held sanding blocks. I first cut them into strips and then break pieces off by use a pair of pliers. It took all day to break four sanding blocks. Then I used a sieve to separate the small crumbs from the bigger bits. These crumbs actually look like dirt gravel. The bigger bits, the rocks, after gluing them into place, I will paint them to look like the basalt rocks.

God is what is true and real. This does not include anything that is untrue and unreal. A lot of human behaviours are based on untrue and unreal stories. Which is like a mouth moving (the behaviour) without sound (the untrue and unreal stories). But as soon as there is truth to be said, the sound is heard. God's reality in the first case is just a mouth moving. Similarly, a rock dug out of the ground is, as it is, true and real. As soon as the rock is shaped and made into a brick, and seen as a brick, the rock is no longer true and real, and neither is the brick. So too are human/social constructs, such as justice. Ironically, this is even mentioned in the bible. Matthew 7:23. 22_Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23_Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’ 24_Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Wired the control panel instruments. Left: shows the set-up before connecting the wires. Right: Wiring completed.

@Progress What Is Justice And What Is God's Justice? Both are related to the people it governs. Both religion and law are used for some control (policing) over the society it serves. Otherwise self-will will run-riot. Justice is a word used in an attempt to validate the need for social control, and on a personal level, self-validation. God (Truth) has no needs / wants. Or else God would be looking for itself to fulfill itself. God needs no justice. Justice is a need by those who need validation.

Total self-acceptance. To have no fear of self. No fear of vulnerability or exposure, because you are aware of your truth and have accepted it.