Everyone walks. We learn to walk at an early age. Some learn earlier than others but no one does not. Very simple, or so it seems. I believe the way you walk is strictly influenced by your genetic makeup. Some people walk with their feet straight forward, others with their feet pointing to the sides. They move their arms straight, back and forth, to the sides, or not at all. No one tells you how to do this. You just kind of do it unconsciously. Some people, like me, walk with their hips swinging back and forth. I was once told that I didn’t know how to walk. But who’s to say? Everyone walks differently.

I would love to hear your comments regarding this observation.

There are many reason for inflation, to name a few: Not enough supply, Too much demand, Corporate greed, Negative news media, Menace of Rail Roads strikes, and many, many other negatives. And this is besides the after-effect of the Pandemic. And unfortunately, the real victims of inflation are the middle income people and poor people that have to struggle with higher prices for many things.

Is there a cure for inflation? Of course not! Once inflation is over, the price of things will stay high! The only item that might go down after inflation is over is gasoline.

The majority of people believe that a good-looking person is also a nice person. Unfortunately, one has nothing to do with the other. Just because someone is blessed with pleasant features doesn’t necessarily mean that their personality is also pleasant.

Many actors and actresses possess very attractive physical features but their personalities and the way they act off-screen are anything but. That is probably a result of being treated as better than others by their teachers and peers based on their looks and as a result developing a sense of superiority and entitlement, traits that are not deemed attractive in our society.

What we really are is a combination of our parents’ genes, and that includes their personalities as well as their looks. And that is something we cannot control.

You’ve probably heard the old saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” and that certainly is good advice. Looks don’t necessarily determine behavior, and we shouldn’t make snap judgements based solely on how someone looks.

I believe that the role of a wife (consciously or unconsciously) is to train the husband as to what she wants him to do or accomplish. As we know, if a husband does what his wife wants all the time, they will have a happy marriage. I don’t think that all husbands are aware that they are being “trained” by their spouses.

Some people may think I’m in left field but, having been married three times and having lived to the ripe old age of 88, I have a lot of experience regarding the husband and wife relationship.

Please feel free to agree or disagree with what I say, but this is my opinion.

Many men believe that most women are not as good as men. As a result they tend to demean and condescend women without realizing that when they are bad-mouthing women they’re not thinking about their own mother. Only an ungrateful son will demean or condescend his mother, even to the fact that no one is perfect. All women should be respected. Period.

When a couple decides to change their residence to another state or move out of the country, they can analyze each place via computer (the Internet) and will move to a place in which they think they belong. It sometimes becomes a little complex to find the proper location where they think they will be more or less happy. But there are a few basic rules that people follow, like, if they’re well off, they will go to a place where other people are generally well off. And, if they are not well off, they will look for a more modest environment. If they are not currently in the place in which they feel they belong, they will not be happy. And eventually they will start looking for someplace else. The whole idea of moving is difficult, at best, but because there are so many places to choose from eventually they will end up in the place that they belong.

People eventually wind up where they belong.

Sometimes people mistakenly use the word love for material things, but material things cannot reciprocate the love that you feel for them. A car never said to the owner, “I love you” or “you make my day” or anything like that. Some people may resent what I’m saying because they will insist that they love their car, boat, motorcycle, or anything like that.

In my opinion (and I repeat this is only my opinion) the word love should only be applied to living things, with some exceptions, such as a flower, a tree, a bush, etc. Because usually when you love someone or something, they are able to return your love by saying so or doing something that you like or you wish for or that makes you happy.

With regard to liking, you can like anything you wish. You can also like a person, perhaps because they’re good looking or tall or handsome or strong, but you don’t have to love them.

The ideal situation is to love and like the same person.

Sometimes you may love a person but you don’t like what they do or say sometimes. That doesn’t mean you don’t love them, you just don’t like certain aspects or behaviors, such as burping, coughing, sneezing, snoring or making other strange noises at night, or the way they blow their nose.

In my opinion, people who use the word love instead of like for inanimate objects are simply making a common usage error of how to express their true feelings about things and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But again, that’s just my opinion, and you’re welcome to criticize or just not believe what I say.

Most people have complexes. The most common complex is physical appearance. Anything that we believe is not the ideal appearance we create a complex about. There are so many “not normal” aspects in our perception or point of view. To give an example: if you are of low stature (read – short) you may have a complex when you’re around people of normal height. By the same token, if you are very tall you might feel out of place with regard to other people.

There are more critical complexes than mere physical appearance and they’re usually related to our ethnicity. Human beings tend to be mistrustful and wary of anyone or anything that they are not familiar with. People from different countries dress differently and may feel out of place if they are not with people with the same type of dress. In regard to race, there are many different skin tones. Some people don’t accept themselves as they are in relation to other people and as a result may develop complexes. It just depends on the individual.

It would be fantastic for all the people to not be critical of anyone else regardless of their looks or place of origin. It would be like heaven.

Please feel free to comment.

I believe that intelligence is a mainly product of your genetic makeup, a combination of mother and father, which could be negative or positive, depending on your parents. Can you be intelligent without considering the genes from your parents? No one knows.

Most intelligent people like to succeed in life by becoming scientists, engineers, etc. and it’s easier for them to get scholarships in order to get a higher education, which is important for our society as a whole to succeed.

Smartness, on the other hand (and according to studies done), can be acquired by experiencing things, and your experience (and hopefully your smartness) increases with age. Been there, done that. You get the idea.

I believe education gives you knowledge, but not necessarily intelligence or smartness.

The intelligence of famous scientists like Edison and Einstein was given to them by their parents, but their smartness came from years of trial and error and experimentation.

Would you say that philosophers (like myself) were intelligent? Or did their smartness come from years of experiencing life and pondering life’s mysteries?

Please let me know what you think.

The following quotations are purely my opinions, and whoever reads them can disregard, make a comment, or just ignore them.

1. The money that you have should be spent by you, or later on it will be spent by someone else.
   
2. Honesty and truth go hand in hand.
   
3. To be a good liar, you have to have an excellent memory, because you cannot tell two different people the exact same lie.
   
4. If you love somebody, you edify yourself. And if you hate anybody, you’ll destroy yourself.
   
5. You cannot believe anything you read in the media, or anything said by a politician.
   
6. In order to have a healthy body you have to have a healthy mind. Mens sana in corpore sano.
   
7. You will always pay for your mistakes, no doubt about it.
   
8. If you have a problem, get an education about it. The internet is a great resource and teacher, if you know how to use it.
   
9. You can’t ever change the way you really are.
   
10. Every thief thinks that everyone else is a thief.
    
11. Today is the tomorrow of yesterday, and also today is the yesterday of tomorrow.
    

All the above quotations could be amended by me.