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Lost generation

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We watched this in church today. Sivin is fond of things like these, also Battlestar Galactica, which today he tells us that people tend to like because story-telling genres generally allow characters to grow and expand, offering an opportunity to the masses to build pseudo relationships.

I don't always talk about sermons and my faith journey – I honour my privacy and keep it as close as I can, but today I just wanted to remember how significant the sermon about change was to me, how it reminded me that miracles comes in little packets of reality – not the rah rah fireworks-y type delivered by baby angels in Pampers diapers.

Today I feel especially blessed.

I'm glad for people like the good pastor Sivin, and friends I've met and grown close to in recent years. People who are sharp and alert enough to recognize the times when I'm down and plunging towards abysses – they care enough to take the risk and inform me (yes, inform me) and ask me, 'What happened?'

I'm lucky in that sense, that there are people like you who care enough to spend the midnight hours talking on the phone with me about strange concepts like subconscious minds and magnet-like attraction factors, who remind me that when you're stuck you attract the people who like the stuck you into your life – its not that they don't care, its just that they're not aware enough to understand what's possible. I'm glad for the conversation last night that reminded me that how in life, whatever you resist will always persist, and why its important to enjoy as much as you can, whatever you have at that moment in time. This is the true essence of living in the now.

So its true, life is really like an RPG – you cross one level, and there will be a more challenging level for you to overcome. If its so challenging that you give up – then you'll be stuck, not moving forward, not going anywhere at all because you're just reluctant to try and try again – until you get it. The point is this, at the end of the game, when you complete the whole thing, you'll get out in one piece, victorious and joyous. And the cool part is, WALKTHROUGHs are available if you're hardworking and diligent enough to search for them. God allows Google moments, so if you're stuck on say, Level 6′s dungeon stages and think of giving up – hey, check Google for FAQs, Cheats or walkthroughs. But of course, if you persevere and do it your own way, even if the journey takes longer and feels so much more tiring, you experience so much more, and learn so much more.

*Deep thought moment.*