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that might have to be changed periodicall y. Recently, a friend was
going through a grueling experience in the hospital and I had been
engaged to help another friend do something in his garden. I had
planned to hop the bus after finishing the s mall task and had
exhausted myself by the time it had co me to do so. When
foreboding about strenuous possibilities I also suffer fro m a
compulsion to say those things aloud to myself. This is an example
of noiso me worry to no advantage to anyone. In fact, it took me
almost a month to re member my having had been forgetful of
something so obviously significant - that didn't happen and I wis h
I had not forgotten, but One is all to the extent All is One.
As I dwell on the topic of anxiety, I remember saying elsewhere
that it's how we co mbat loneliness, when untowardly events
happen to impugn my honor it's though having something to
complain about gives purpose to my life. The proble m is that
nowadays, people are so stressed out they have developed
responses that indicate their apathy, the most fa miliar being, "I
don't have time." How much of our personality is devoted to
establishing contact with another being; could it be that so long as
our soul inhabits the flesh we'll crave for affection. There are some
powerful chemicals at work in the senses; even the mighty willed
self-controlled to-a perfection people are melted into blubbering
globs of desperate physiological cleaving to hope for the touch of
another human. Those who control the world's resources make life
miserable, deplete any hope for personal freedo m, allow no roo m
for individual security; albeit the cultural side of the flesh seeking
attention is imbued in all forms of productive creativity that bring
us into appropriate contact with those close enough to be touched
by us. People shake hands to dispel worry.
Children are hugged for performance of correct manifestations,
adults also, but cultural restrictions limit the extent of that
possibility. Many aggressive tendencies are the outco me of the
desire for human warmth, letting children "fight it out" when they
got into arguments is considered acceptable, "because that's what
kids do." Every time I caught my children arguing or fighting in
an unpleasant manner, I called the m to task; to make amends and
shrug it off! I required of the m to sing a song of ap ology Rogaiz
rogaiz af paam, shalo m shalo m kol hazeman (which translates:
Angry anger never, complete peace forever; and concludes with a
commitment to re main good friends , and a pronouncement that
Hashem will reward us with goodness . By the time they would
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