Comments on: Knowing Your Place: the Science/Art and the Illusion https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/ choosing positivity Sat, 21 May 2011 01:09:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Aileen https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4418 Aileen Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:09:26 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4418 Belinda, I love the questions you ask. I've pondered the question of rebelling or being on the track and following the system - it's a life long question I find myself in. For a long time I tried to live as unconventionally as possible - and one day I gave in and lived "on track" - it was much easier - but then I felt restless again. These days I find I play with both. Some conventions make life easier - freeing me up to live outside of the box in other aspects. I had to make peace with "the box" "the system" "being on track" - once I stopped fighting it, I felt I had better leverage. I do love this post & the thoughts & questions it provokes. Belinda, I love the questions you ask. I’ve pondered the question of rebelling or being on the track and following the system – it’s a life long question I find myself in. For a long time I tried to live as unconventionally as possible – and one day I gave in and lived “on track” – it was much easier – but then I felt restless again.
These days I find I play with both. Some conventions make life easier – freeing me up to live outside of the box in other aspects. I had to make peace with “the box” “the system” “being on track” – once I stopped fighting it, I felt I had better leverage.

I do love this post & the thoughts & questions it provokes.

]]> By: Sara Healy https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4397 Sara Healy Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:21:02 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4397 Belinda -- this what I call a "wise" post...it comes from somewhere deep in the soul, like dipping from water that's never seen the light of day. We do put people into categories, including ourselves. I think it's a part of our biological history...a way of identifying friend or foe at one time in our lives. That's a challenge for us, to adapt this biological memory so that we can be more open. Not always easy to do, however. As a kid, I never really fit in, but I also wasn't outside either. I was kind the invisible kid...more of watcher. Later, as I grew older, I definitely became the rebel, but then, this may be due to reaching my first blush of adulthood in the 70's....being a rebel was being conformist at that time:~) Writing is the one area where I feel as if I have no tethers. It's the part of me that is just there and doesn't think a lot of where "there" is. I like this part of me because most of time I do worry about whether or not I will fit in:~) Interesting topic, as usual...thanks:~) Belinda — this what I call a “wise” post…it comes from somewhere deep in the soul, like dipping from water that’s never seen the light of day. We do put people into categories, including ourselves. I think it’s a part of our biological history…a way of identifying friend or foe at one time in our lives. That’s a challenge for us, to adapt this biological memory so that we can be more open. Not always easy to do, however.

As a kid, I never really fit in, but I also wasn’t outside either. I was kind the invisible kid…more of watcher. Later, as I grew older, I definitely became the rebel, but then, this may be due to reaching my first blush of adulthood in the 70’s….being a rebel was being conformist at that time:~)

Writing is the one area where I feel as if I have no tethers. It’s the part of me that is just there and doesn’t think a lot of where “there” is. I like this part of me because most of time I do worry about whether or not I will fit in:~)

Interesting topic, as usual…thanks:~)

]]> By: Ryan Biddulph https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4396 Ryan Biddulph Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:28:07 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4396 Hi Belinda, I try not to find a place. I feel that places are boxes which the ego creates to make an unruly world safe. The problem is that these illusions become realities when accepted as such, limiting your life. I seek an uncomfortable zone consistently. By doing this I leave my box or place which opens my perspective and broadens my experience. Ryan Biddulph Hi Belinda,

I try not to find a place. I feel that places are boxes which the ego creates to make an unruly world safe. The problem is that these illusions become realities when accepted as such, limiting your life.

I seek an uncomfortable zone consistently. By doing this I leave my box or place which opens my perspective and broadens my experience.

Ryan Biddulph

]]> By: Tess The Bold Life https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4395 Tess The Bold Life Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:08:16 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4395 Hi Belinda, I like Tony never fit into a box to begin with so there is no breaking out. LOL One daring thing I did was climb on the roof of our cottage to wash the sky light windows. I was shaking in my shoes all the way up the ladder. Once on the roof I scooted around until the last window. I asked hubs for a broom, stood up and started sweeping twigs from the trees off the rest of the roof. That may seem small yet it's just another example of how I get some I'm afraid or I can't idea in my head and then stop myself. Hi Belinda,
I like Tony never fit into a box to begin with so there is no breaking out. LOL

One daring thing I did was climb on the roof of our cottage to wash the sky light windows. I was shaking in my shoes all the way up the ladder. Once on the roof I scooted around until the last window. I asked hubs for a broom, stood up and started sweeping twigs from the trees off the rest of the roof. That may seem small yet it’s just another example of how I get some I’m afraid or I can’t idea in my head and then stop myself.

]]> By: Belinda Munoz https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4394 Belinda Munoz Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:49:42 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4394 Hi Jessica, welcome to The Halfway Point! Enjoy your tea and crumpets with Sasquatch and tell me all about it! Hi Jessica, welcome to The Halfway Point! Enjoy your tea and crumpets with Sasquatch and tell me all about it!

]]> By: Belinda Munoz https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4391 Belinda Munoz Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:40:27 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4391 Ah, Pretti, then maybe this is one way for your to break out of a mold, eh? Being a so-called SAHM even though you've never thought of yourself as such. And maybe imaginary boundaries are being blurred as we speak ;-) Ah, Pretti, then maybe this is one way for your to break out of a mold, eh? Being a so-called SAHM even though you’ve never thought of yourself as such. And maybe imaginary boundaries are being blurred as we speak ;-)

]]> By: Belinda Munoz https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4390 Belinda Munoz Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:37:52 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4390 The way I see it, those who fit in may be compromising the essence of their individuality. As long as anyone is trying to fit in, they are confining themselves within the parameters of conventional standards; caging themselves in the proverbial box, which happens to be crowded, dark, and waaay too small for someone like you, Tony. Who needs it? ;-) The way I see it, those who fit in may be compromising the essence of their individuality. As long as anyone is trying to fit in, they are confining themselves within the parameters of conventional standards; caging themselves in the proverbial box, which happens to be crowded, dark, and waaay too small for someone like you, Tony. Who needs it? ;-)

]]> By: Jessica https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4389 Jessica Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:31:06 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4389 Great post! However, too funny that you are going one way...and I am going the other! I would be down in the ravine! Great post!

However, too funny that you are going one way…and I am going the other! I would be down in the ravine!

]]> By: Belinda Munoz https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4388 Belinda Munoz Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:27:19 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4388 Welcome to The Halfway Point, Marlon! Wishing you many adventures! Welcome to The Halfway Point, Marlon! Wishing you many adventures!

]]> By: Belinda Munoz https://thehalfwaypoint.net/2010/08/knowing-your-place-the-scienceart-and-the-illusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4387 Belinda Munoz Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:26:11 +0000 https://thehalfwaypoint.net/?p=3046#comment-4387 "Don't slot me" pretty much describes my son, BLW! This post looked different in concept than when published. I think it's okay not to know our place. This, I feel, is conducive to breaking the illusion of any beliefs about ourselves that don't serve us. Ultimately, what we think of ourselves, our perception of ourselves, far outweighs what anyone else thinks. It's our mind that can either free us or imprison us. Not those of others. “Don’t slot me” pretty much describes my son, BLW!

This post looked different in concept than when published. I think it’s okay not to know our place. This, I feel, is conducive to breaking the illusion of any beliefs about ourselves that don’t serve us. Ultimately, what we think of ourselves, our perception of ourselves, far outweighs what anyone else thinks. It’s our mind that can either free us or imprison us. Not those of others.

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