What Are You A Slave To?

i guess this forum, that Hay Day game i seem to be addicted too, and i guess creating beautiful art.


---Mike Savad

The grind

Joseph, maybe all any of us can change is tgd attitude toward it, since most can't live without it.
Mike, good variety of responses.

The constant would be my house and property. The chores are neverending. When they are here, my kids and three granddaughters. I run myself ragged.

An interesting topic, and I was tempted to make a joke about once being a slave to a village of Amazon women who used me for a breeder, but no. I will refrain.

I suppose many people are enslaved to addictions of all kinds. Various drugs, alcohol, unhealthy habits, etc. In this generation, only a small percentage is a slave to someone else, yet many people become slaves by making bad decisions, knowing full well the risks before we take the first dose of the forbidden master. No one takes there first drink of wine, and says I am going to get so addicted to this stuff that it will control me, and eventually kill me. But, knowing the possibilities, we as a society choose to tempt fate. It is sad to note that a race who were slaves in America a hundred & fifty years ago, choose to make themselves again to cocaine. I am not speaking of an entire race of course, and every race and nationality in the world suffers from addictions.
Another modern day slave, is someone who is in debt. There is a Biblical quote which says, " A borrower is a slave to the lender." In many cases, poor money management can enslave a person. Common sense goes a long way in keeping us free from slavery.

Art.
Everyone here is too, I know that, but when my mind keeps me awake for hours, creating my next project, I know I have to get up and write/draw what my brain wants or I'll never get to sleep...

A teething baby girl.......

And the artistic voice living in my head.....I wish I could shut her up sometimes.

put a frozen bagel in her mouth.


---Mike Savad

Lol which one? the baby or the chick in my head.

Thank you for everyone's contributions.
Gene, ya know, some people are slaves to shopping on amazon....

both


---Mike Savad

" Shoulds". Things should be this way, or they should be that way. & " people shouldn't behave like that. "

If I (or we) could get over the way we think things " should be", I am sure we would all be able to appreciate many more things that are good.

Personally, I am a slave to other people's emotions. I wish I was much better at just ignoring people's moods, & not allow them to effect me.
I "should" get over that. Lol

Camel filters.

Two packs a day since 1985.

No desire to give them up.

Yes, they will probably end killing me. But we all got to die from something!

I never wear my seatbelt either.

Anyone want to make bets on which will kill me first, the smokes or a car accident?

I am a slave to .... " Freedom " .... in a good way.

Our culture tells us that Freedom is the ability to do and have what we want, when we want. But true Freedom is the ability to do what we ought to ......

i bet, you'll set yourself on fire, and fly out the window on fire.


---Mike Savad

wow, John, guess you've never seen anyone die from esophageal cancer.....

Frank, I'd have to argue....whose culture says freedom is being allowed to do whatever you want, whenever?
certainly, our society has enough rules to prove that a fallacy.
I do agree with the second part of your statement, but what we ought to do is based on....tada.....rules!

That would be a memorable way to die Mike.

Marlene, are there pleasant ways to die? It seems the longer you live the less pleasant you go. Your eyes go, your hearing goes, your libido goes, your mobility goes, your muscles go, and on and on. There comes a point you are a shell of what you once were dreaming about the "good old days". To hell with that. To quote Def Leppard...It's better to burn out (like mike said)..then fade away!

that's rather simplistic. John..lemme tell you first hand what happens....
first you have trouble swallowing and the dr will send you to a therapist to help the swallowing...but you'll go from real food to soft food....
and every few days, you will cough so hard, because food has formed ulcers in your esophagus and it is now going into your lungs..and that food has to be coughed out.
then you get a stomach peg so that you can receive nutrition until you can make arrangements for chemo and radiation....but most likely, you won't even get that far...and just be kept alive intravenously until your body wastes away and all organs shut down...and it happens fast.
if you are really lucky, you'll be able to get into hospice but be sure to tell them no stomach peg or hospice won't be available to you and you'll get to die even slower.
oh yeah, and the above is assuming you can afford the health care..it'll wipe out your savings.

Lots of people go to sleep and don't wake up. I find that a blessing from the creator.

LOL Sheena! Oh my!

Our culture tells us that Freedom is the ability to do and have what we want, when we want. But true Freedom is the ability to do what we ought to ......

True Freedom is what you first said. The ability to do what we ought to is our moral character.

@Miss Marlene - The voices that tell me to create.

Thanks, Mike. I now have an image of a flying, flaming John going by the house. LOL

John - Memorable, sure. But not sure how much fun it would be.

I'm a slave to breathing - otherwise I'm not much of a slave.

Marlene - you asked " Frank, I'd have to argue....whose culture says freedom is being allowed to do whatever you want, whenever? '

"Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, freedom is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with --- and one another." --Pope John Paul II, St. Louis, Missouri ( I removed the word so I don't get removed from this thread )

So, you're kind of right, it's not our culture but a blanket statement about society as a whole.


Here is the reference: http://www.youthapostles.com/jp2/week18.html

I'm a slave to this monitor, and I have a painting of a well-known place in Texas that I need to finish! Off. I Go.

Frank, I was responding to what you first typed;
Our culture tells us that Freedom is the ability to do and have what we want, when we want.

But, yes, we do agree.

I must confess..... I am Marlene's slave, and boy-toy. But who wants to be free of that ?

::::smacking Gene::::::

yet again.
the last guy who said that to my face, in front of my honey, got whacked but good.

Worry.

JL, just a thought....where does that worrying get you?

JL I can relate actually just went to the doc today ...... Trying to get my anxiety under control. Don't want to go on meds but had an attack the other day at home when I was alone with my young kids....almost passed out...couldn't breath and the more I tried to take a breath the more I panicked almost pushed the panic button for the ambulance....called my husband and he calmed me down. It was such a scare he made me go to the doc today. Probably going to psychiatrist to get myself figured out. My anxiety and worries are out of control ...time to get better.

@Mike ......thanks tips........😉.....your a fountain of knowledge.

Food. As in ... slave to.

Gee whiz, John! We don't want you to go like that, but Marlene pretty well summed it up. You assume that letting yourself smoke you'll die happy, but if you get tongue cancer and lose your tongue, you will be on liquids forever! I know a friend (a life-long smoker) who ended up that way. Please rethink that.

Marlene,

My grandmother died of cancer and never smoked a day in her life. My grandfather died during a surgery to repair a stent one month shy of 87 and he smoked most his life.

The cancer you describe is bad. LOTS of ways to die are bad. The best anyone can hope for is a fast death. "How" really doesn't matter, it's how LONG that matters.

I sure as hell am not going to live my life in fear of the end. It is coming no matter what I do.

Eat right, exercise...die anyway.

With any luck Jack Kevorkian's dream will come true before I need it. It is amazingly stupid that we can't control the last decision of our life in this "free" country.

we make our beds and then lie in them.

You lie in that bed whether you want to or not!

...I was a slave to my thread on artography....O.....M.......G......now I'm free, free at last!!! Closed the thread with my final words.

I did allow over 30 minutes to go by first, but now I'm free and can finish some edits so I can upload new....digitally manipulated, digital manipulation, digitally enhanced, digital enhancement, digitally altered, digital alteration, photographic art, artistic photography, semi-sort of pictorialism, altered photography, graology, altergraphy, paintography, artography.......pretty flowers and weeds...snicker...

tax returns

I'm sorry to read of your difficulties, Sheena. Do take the time to get the help you need. You sound like you have a lot of responsibility, but your first responsibility - yes, even though you're a mother - is to yourself, okay? I really like your art - it's got a Gothic Victorian delicacy that's really appealing. I hope you feel better soon.

Well, Marlene, I'm presently worrying about my eyesight. The other day I noticed that I was seeing these strange flashes of light in my right eye, right on the edge of my peripheral vision. The next day I woke up with a bigass floater in that eye. I had bumped that eye earlier in the week, but it was mild and didn't hurt much - certainly not a "OH MY GOD MY EYE" situation. :P So I was pretty spooked. I googled my symptoms and was presented with: "Well, lots of people get flashes and floaters, it can happen at any time of life, and it's annoying but harmless. On the other hand, those symptoms could signal a detached retina which can lead to blindness." Whoa. So I went to my eye doctor the next day. The good news - it's not a detached retina. YET. The bad news - the floater and flashes are here to stay, unless, in the former case, it fades or my eye reabsorbs it, which takes time. Nothing like trying to draw while what looks like a tiny hairball is floating in front of you. Crap.

Now apparently, there are two doctors (that I know of) that use lasers to "zap" floaters. One is located in southern Florida. If I find I can't deal with the hairball, I might go see him, but it will be costly, because OF COURSE my vision insurance won't cover it. So anyway, that's what I'm worrying, or at least thinking, about.

sugar.
nicotine.
trying to change both.

@JL no worries I will be fine just wanted you to know I understand. And yes I need to take care of this and not leave it, I am looking into getting help. As for responsibilities I have no more on my plate than any other mother would. My anxiety goes way back when I was a child but it seems lately to have gotten worse.....as my beautiful and endearing FAA friend Janine Riley has pointed out to me this is most likely hormones from my last pregnancy which hasn't even been year since as well as some other complications......as usual she is most likely right. Thank you so much for mentioning my work, it means a lot coming from you. Hope you get your sight fixed up, that would be scary. take care

I am slave to my animals - they always come first!

I'm with Joseph , "Slave to the Grind"


Just like that old SkidRow song.

:-)

I was going to join in and say that I am a slave to enjoying life and not having a worry in the world.

But then Marlene tells me all these horrible things that are going to happen to me when I get old.

Let's see, I'm 82 now, so I guess I will start worrying about all that negative stuff about a hundred years from now.

I'll check back in and let you know how it's going.

In the meantime, I will continue to enjoy life without a worry in the world.

And so it is...