What did you think would never happen?...but it did!

Color T.V.

Don't laugh! My parents resisted buying a T.V. for two reasons - they didn't want it to interfere in our studies, and they didnt' like the programs on T.V.

To stop one of our arguments, my mom said - “I'll only buy T.V. if they bring color television.”

This was in the late 70s and I am shocked now, to realize that to me, then, it seemed she was saying - “I will never buy a T.V..”

Famous wrong predictions!!!!!

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For me, political things come readily to mind, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of the Iron Curtain. I really wondered many times if the world was gonna make it through the Cold War. So glad we did!! 
 

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I never imagined we would start our own business, I always thought I would forever work for someone else. Had someone told me I would work for myself I would have had a good laugh!

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The impossible that actually happened? It happened (for me) just yesterday: seeing Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in a Disney movie!

In a recent Rolling Stone magazine interview, Richards said, “I'm the new Mickey Mouse, baby. You'd better watch out!”

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That I would get a masters degree and teach at the college level. I considered myself a “C” student. Age can change ones motivations.

That I would live again in the northeast…yuk!

Many more, now I never disbelieve anything…I know possibility exists in everywhere!

:)
Aley

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Sometimes I think that “C” students are  independent thinkers who'd rather find their own knowledge and not have to show it to  others; rather than learn and rehash.

The real question would be…how are you with your C students?

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I'm pretty kind to my students. Not all love literature, but if they try…and they seem to…I am very good to them. My teachers were regurgitation freaks,they insisted information be spit back and offered no room for opinion or creative ideas. I am pretty open. I tell them at the get go the only thing I will not forgive is excessive absences. You can't have taken a class when you are never there!LOL

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That so much knowledge would be so freely available. After university, it was so frustrating to try to get non-fiction journals to read, or even information on metaphysical subjects; that I was interested in since kid-hood.

And now…the world has opened up, and as they'd say in Hindi, “bhagwan nay chhapparh faarh kay diya”…[loose translation:] God has broken the roof to give….

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I never thought I would love a man. Never imagined that I would ever love someone to the degree that I love my husband - the degree where, yes, you can get hurt if something goes wrong.
I was married to this beautiful man for four years before I realized that I had, indeed, fallen in love with him. The mere realization of it precipitated an illness considered both fatal and incurable. And when I said to the therapist I was seeing at the time that “I would rather die than be hurt again,” I finally heard what I was doing to myself.
This is bliss…and worth the risk!

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My original msg got lost in cyberspace! Or perhaps the thunderstorm outdoors.


PM. how wonderful that you found such love; and amazing it took 4 years to discover the depth of it.
Do you now feel that the physical illness it precipitated, was due to toxins leaving a physical body that was now driven by a light heart? Full of love?

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How true! finding metaphysical books even in 1987 was an undertaking…now we have a flood of stuff…and we all are also going back to the classics..knowledge is timeless…

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it did ??? … It did for a few ….and it's crumbling,  TV distorts the REAL reality. Look around, Something has to happen, change before disaster ?

Im surfing and see this pod has lots of mums on it … hi mum, Im just passing through, and am an admitted 'angry young man'  ( not commited !)

….Understanding Change is like playing football, you can only anticipate really.

I think 50 years into the future… things are WILL be tough and still really bad and confusing, even worse, beyond that… our skin will be very tough, and gene therapy having created an era of new disease and new resistance.
Persistant National Socialist states will hound each other until compromise  ensue's…thats for sure,unless we change something radically  we have  1/2 of 6,5 billion people aspiring to imitate the mindless consumer  lifestlye… as seen on TV.
(…. the other 1/2 who are OK… they can't or don't buy into it, stay poor…or get wise, remaining 'earthly' humans)
(My insurance policy of helping prevent disaster is on Janos POD's in Zaadz ›› The Knights & Maidens of the Round Table.)

Many nations are yet to experience proper grounding. I live in Zimbabwe, and can see that little plans were made for a real future … considering africas political changes and , geographically  and historically speaking on a philosophical angle I may as well laugh. The world exploits that place silly.


jlz

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so so many things…being happy, having a happy family (2 kids!!), a steady job, a successful career, being positive, inspiring others around me, living abroad my home country (a big one).
I've learnt for sure that life is full of possibilities, and is unpredictable.
Also, some relationship breakdowns in my life that i would never have thought possible have happened.
All part of the wonderful fabric that is life.

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I never thought the Soviet Union would collapse, I thought that at it's core it was fundamentally a better system, I remember after reading about the latest tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. thinking I should write a letter to Mr. Brezhnev appealing to him to cool it, that in time they would win anyway and to just be patient.  I underestimated the power of capitalism or the corruption in the Soviet Union.

Second, that the PC was never going to replace the main frame.  It was a nice tool for word processing and even quick accounting analysis, but you were going to need  real horse power and storage to do 'real' computing.

Last, I was never going to be this old :)

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I think in college, when we first read Marx, it seemed like an amazingly idealistic world; as youth would be drawn to. But as we found, justice can't be institutionalized or imposed; it has to start from within, below, in our daily lives.

So far, freedom seems to be the best experiment…. Who actually has it, is not really apparent unless we feel it ourselves.
And nowadays, I have to say I never thought I would feel this young…nothing like exercise to get you this way…come on, kicksave: run!


Wow! Just wrote this;…went to your profile to read your name; and find this:
“Running defines me..or at least I have always thought so, one of my job criteria is that there has to be a shower on site.  So that I could run during my lunch hour.  And so every where I've worked, I've been “Gerry, you know the guy who runs everyday”

As far as labels go, “RUNNER” isn't too bad.”

You're never going to be old!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I'm never going to get blase.

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Wow!

The destruction of the Berlin wall, East meeting West. I've had friends over the years that escaped the tyranny that pervaded East Germany, literally risking  death at the hands of machine gun toting soldiers if they were spotted.  What an extraordinary turn around.

And the break up of the USSR. Ditto

I believe both these events are an example of the drawing together of the various nations and people inhabiting our planet slowly but surely towards the reality of a global village, world peace.

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Ahh–perfect examples for today…1 minute still of Intnl day of peace

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As a child, I didn't think I'd ever travel the world.
In my youth, I determined I'd never ever live aboard, away from my parents who'd need my care.
But I have done both.

A conversation at the World Heritage pod reminded me of my first visit abroad [second, if you count–and I should– neighboring Nepal].

I'm from India; that used to be called The Jewel in the crown. Mine was a generation born after all that; but I must say we benefited from being taught english in “convent” school; as it makes it easier to travel the world.

I had such a chip on my shoulder, though, when I first visited England almost 30 years ago; sure that everyone would be racist and rude; all set to tell the immigration “when” they denied me an entry permit for flimsy reasons that I didn't really want to visit their country and wouldn't have if I wasn't visiting relatives.

So I was completely unprepared for the polite civility of the immigration guys who asked a few questions before stamping me in for 6 months multiple entry [I'd asked for one week!]; the “Hello luv” of  a cheeky passerby or the real friendliness of strangers at a neighborhood cafe.

Stiff upper lip? Perhaps when you're upset; but otherwise the lasting impression I have of London is of crossing crowded Oxford Street, shocked at how those huge buses made no move to impatiently inch forward; and even the cars behind  us stayed in place till we'd safely crossed over!

Oh! I HAVE to tell you what dislodged that chip on my shoulder.

I was walking on one of the side roads with a cousin when all of a sudden a huge truck came behind us, and began to climb the pavement [sidewalk, dear  Americans!].

“Sanjeev!” I shrieked. “he's trying to kill us. How can he be so mean?”

My cousin, born and raised in England, laughed at his paranoid cousin. The guy was parking the only way he could in that narrow alley!!!!

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This month I found out that my husband, the man I've been with for 25 years, has been lying to me for four years now. Not about another woman … but it serious nevertheless. So, I guess my answer would be that I never thought I would be starting over at the age of 56. And yet, here I am. rebooting my life once more.

What did you think would never happen?...but it did!

In my experience I have learned that the space between an ending and a new beginning is a choice point.  This wonderful space is where Om (Ohm, Aum) resides.  It is a place of unleashed, unlimited, potential and possibility!  At the age of 52 I have also observed that these opportunities become more rare as we get older.  In other words, if you can shift your perspective and look at this “rebooting” as an opportunity, you may well find that you have been given a rare and precious gift.  All you have to do is receive it.