There is no destination, there is only the journey, you will never arrive at happiness but you may pick some up along the way. Truth is found in the becoming not the became. Any ideas?

I need to become a master of my anger, make it work positively.
I need to not cast blame.
I need to speak gently, from my heart.
I need to love people, see their nobility.
I need to silence myself and listen.
I need to be more aware.
I need to think less.
I need to act more.
I need, therefore I am.

Hi there, my name is Mike, the most common male name in the English Language. So instead I chose the name Mezzomorto, which loosly translated means "in the midst of the dead." It was the name of a Barbary Corsair pirate-ship that sailed the Mediterranean in search of plunder,  long before piracy ever entered the Spanish Main. I guess that it's a little bit arrogant a name, but it's one I can choose with impunity no matter how popular the website I use it on. So there you have it, I'm constantly surrounded by people who live half-way, sleeping, dead really, they're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. More often than not if you try to explain something of value, your words fall on deaf ears, and in a worst case you are met with violent reprisal. Casting your pearls before the swine, indeed. I know what you might be thinking, 'This guy is super-judgmental.' To that I say "Bullshit", it's only judgmental if you look down on them for it. No I don't hate anybody for their iniquities, hate connotes fear, fear comes from a lack of understanding, and I understand people all too well. The reason I understand people, at least in this regard, is because I have been responsible for all the stuff I see in others. To judge them would be to judge myself. I'm tired of judging myself, tired of hating myself, so I learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of others. Hopefully in a few years I will have reached my goals, I'm sure I will have become better at operating from the second row, I'll be a nicer person, that's for certain. What we know isn't as important as what we do. So no, I'm not super familiar with "Spiral Dynamics", and I can't quite tell you the specific significance of  "Calabi-Yao Manifolds", and I still don't have the words to describe the effects of "Salvia Divinorum", but I do enjoy people watching, and when somebody drops a scoop of chocolate ice-cream on their white Lacoste polo shirt and I laugh, they  ought not to be embarrassed, because I'm laughing with them, they just don't know it yet.