changing

… whatever – whenever.

In case you didn't know…

“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, month, or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right to grow.
No apologies.”
(source unknown)

having a change of mind

As far back as I can remember – 60 years or so as of now, I have allowed myself to change my mind on whatever subject that crosses my mind, whenever relevant conditions change.

Nowaday I have taken this “freedom to change” a little further, in that I allow myself to change my mind, and action, related to whatever, whenever it makes sense to me to do so, which means I do not have to wait for some outside factors to manifest themselves.

May sound like I'm unreliable, but it isn't about that. “Unpredictable” is a better description, and there's much freedom in being unpredictable – even to myself.

One may of course ask why anyone should bother trying to predict anything about me, but – strangely enough – now and then some actually do.

Well, whatever reasons anyone has for trying to predict my future thoughts and actions, its their problem, not mine.

goals change

Whatever goals I may have had yesterday, have very little to do with what goals – if any – I will have tomorrow. Apart from that I sometimes have to deal with a few practical issues – like making travelplans and such – it doesn't make sense to set goals and make plans for the future.

What I sometimes list up to myself for my future, are options, as it may be good to know what my options may be in various situations. Whether or not I end up in this or that situation, is neither known nor important, and new options may pop up later. Thus, planning in details for particular future scenarios, simply doesn't make sense.

I cannot say what may make sense to me tomorrow. Nothing much outside my local sphere may change from one day to another, but my insight into and knowledge about what goes on around me will have been updated several times in 24 hours. One or more of those updates may affect my decisions.

all by myself (almost)

Some may say I am having an attitude problem. But, if that's a “problem” it isn't mine, and my wife isn't complaining (too much) either. Seems like Gunlaug like having a partner that isn't governed by set society rules and the ongoing rat-race to the bottom – ensures freedom for her too.

Taking things as they come without bothering with how I am supposed to handle them, definitely has its advantages. Even more so when there's no-one to answer to but myself.
Guess I can not blame anyone but myself either then…

sincerely georg; sign

Hageland 08.nov.2015
last rev: 09.nov.2015

caught in a net

Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, etc. They all try to predict and create patterns based on what I have done earlier, and then keep on serving me stuff based on those patterns.
Usually their predictions are so far off that it isn't even funny, but this “internet game” isn't about having fun. Its about making money and achieving control over customers – whichever comes first.

Calculating and mapping the idiosyncrasies of groups and individuals, pay out big time for those in “the business”. Thus, no wonder all the big and a lot of smaller names are involved in the activity.

As for “ads” and “recommendations”; they can be automatically ignored. Most else that doesn't suit me can be programatically redefined based on my own, changing, preferences.
Troubleshooting the world of economics, isn't my business. Controlling where I personally want to position myself relative to the alter of this religion, is my business.

social norms…

When it comes to prevalent “norms” in our societies, my interest is somewhat limited. I am of course interested in knowing what norms that dominate the world I'm living in, but my interest for these limitations to individual freedom pretty much stops there.

That about “90 percent of everything is crud ”, is (more or less) the only reliable “norm” I have found. That simple observation doesn't make adjusting to whatever norms that are being pushed by various groups all that interesting to me.

Having some norms to live by in a neighborhood is fine, but having to abide by group-norms that go against common sense and my own interests in every respect, simply doesn't make sense – especially as being member of groups in itself doesn't make any sense to me.

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
— Albert Einstein

Conforming to whatever norms the majority find acceptable, doesn't lead to anything I'm interested in.
Group-majorities don't set or define norms in our societies, they just abide by group-rules without asking too many real and serious questions, mainly because conformance makes their lives uncomplicated. Such mindless conformance to anything is not for me.

I'm definitely not another Einstein, but I sure have gotten more out of life so far by mainly being a loner, than I would have by playing group-games and blindly conforming to norms.
There's still so much more outside existing “norms” that is worth my attention, so I don't think I am going to change attitude in that area.
Maybe another time…