Many years ago I was called in to see my son’s teacher. This was pre-k. What could the teacher want to talk to me about? Turns out my son didn’t (and still doesn’t) like cupcakes. But he felt some obligation to be polite. His four year old brain of politeness. He would pick up a cupcake, lick it and put it back. I had a chuckle. The teacher, not so much. Oh well. He doesn’t do that anymore.
But, I have been a bit random.
Fast forward to this week. A group of us went to a local bar for a group outing. The place was fairly full. Everyone was laughing, talking, and drinking. Then a young man came in from across the street. He works at a local bakery. Apparently, they had a boxful of leftovers. In a goodwill gesture, he went from table to table offering baked good from a box. And, surprisingly no one took a single pastry.
None of us were tempted. No one took one and licked it and put it back. Well, as far as I could tell. For a second, I wondered if now we are completely conditioned to not take any “candy” from strangers. Whatever it may be the poor guy left with a completely full box of goods. I would have thrown a party. Hope he got to enjoy them
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psychologistmimi 
Love It! Giving Without Expect of Receiving!
Even Modern Psychology Per the Study of the
Mind Suggests That One Altruistic Act of Kindness
With No Expect of Return
Brings Lasting Happiness
For Months IF It’s ACTUALLY
A Gift with NO Expect of Return Yes
Advice i Gave to A Young Man on an Autism
Site Today Who Was Down About No One Ever
Acknowledging And Telling Him Thank You For His Efforts
There And True Oh Goodness Love What You Do in Autotelic
Flow of Meditation on Task in the Sweet Spot Tween Anxiety and
Apathy And Through
Bio-Feedback
Within in Increasing
Complexities on Task Completing
Them in Increasing Human Potentials
Again the Joy is ‘Autotelic’ In Nature Happiness
Generated Within Naked, Enough, Whole, Complete
Where No External Rewards From Others Are Necessary
As There Are No Let
Downs About Expectations
From Others ThiS Way in Life
And Really No Reason at All to
Have Expectations From Others for Affirmation
of Efforts in Life This Way And Then When one Can
And Will
Focus All
Their Potential
on Task, Meh, Sooner
or Later You’ll Go to the Lowe’s
Customer Service Desk and Your Wife
Will Be Returning Some Gardening Gear And
The Lovely Young Associate Behind the Register
Will Be Smiling At Your Wife From Ear to Ear Shining
Her Smile Intensely at ‘You’ Too And After the Return
of Goods The Lovely Young Woman Will Exclaim Sir You
Are Such A Legend in Our ‘Facebook Group’ We Have Been
Following Your Public Dance For Years Now and She Looked
to me Still to be a Teenager So i Asked How Old She Was And She
Said 26 And She And Her FRiEnDS Had Been Following My Public
Dance Since She Was A Teen on Her Facebook Group Page Inspired
By my Unerring
Joy And Just Never
Running Out of Energy
Wherever around the Metro
Area She and Her FRiEnDS Saw me
Dance in An Inspiration for Truly Being Alive…
Just Another Day in the Life of Enjoying What i Love to Do…
Never Expecting Anything
in Return Yet Hearing
the Kind of Feedback
Every Once in a While
Casually in Line at
A Cash Register
And the Such
Most People
Never ever
Hear in Life Yet Not Anything
About Making Money Just Dancing
Just Dancing to Enjoy the Moment of Now New
Eternally This Gift This Breath of Life Naked,
Enough, Whole, Complete So
i Will Imagine if that Young Man
Who Delivered The Bakery Goods
To Your Restaurant Party
This Way
Without Expect
of Return Continues
This Practice in All He
Does in Life He’ll Be Happy
A Very Rare Condition of the
Human These Days For Dam Sure…
The Young Woman Gave me A Discount
of Two Decades On Her Guess of my Age
at 42 Years-Old As i Told Her i Feel Younger Than Ever in my Life Now
Reaching Early Social Security Age in June Indeed The Reward Is
Fully Inherent
And Really
A Fountain of
Youth As Science
Does Suggest the
Benefits that Moving
Meditation in Autotelic Flow
Brings From Social Empathic
Intelligence Cognitive Executive Functioning
And Motor And Proprioceptive Intelligences too
Used to Regulate Emotions and Integrate Senses
As Folks in Moving
Meditation in Eastern
Philosophies Have Done
For Literally Thousand of Years
Not unlike the Rest of the Animal
And Other Nature Kingdoms And
Really ALL EXiSTeNCE Naturally As Even Subatomic
Particles Spiral Around the Center of Their UNiVerSE too…
1 in 44 Children Diagnosed With Autism as i’m Sure You
Aware of in the Health Care Field Getting Glued to Screens
Isn’t
Gonna
Help Ya
Gotta Move
As Use it or Lose
it Applies to All Stuff Life
Our Ancestors More Often
Became Naked, Enough, Whole,
Complete In a Free Dance And Song
ThiS Way And Never Writing A Word Down Anywhere
A Record
of Joy in Play
Slaying Fear
Inhaling Peace
Exhaling LoVE iN JoY
oF LiGHT Dancing And Singing
The Night Away With Drumbeats
of Hearts in Synch With Each Other Complete too
Giving, Sharing, Caring More And Healing More This
Way for All of Nature in Balance With Respect and Least Harm
It’s The Rhythm of
The Night
It’s
Life This Dance
And Song Freely
Given to Each Other or Not…
Anyway Thanks For Inspiring
This Essay i’ll Share it on the “Wrong
Planet” As i Always Share Now What i Get inspired
With by Folks Around the World to Bring Experiences
to them They May have Never Experienced in Life Before…
Least i Can And Will Do
For A Place That Gave me
Something to Do While i Tried
Not to Commit Suicide With The Suicide
Disease Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia for
The Last 33 of 66 Months of that HeLL ON EartH
From Wake to Sleep As A Shut-in in my Bedroom
Then yes
i Learned
What Life
Means to Give
And Give Some More Back too…
And This Flow of Writing Brings the
Same Inherent Autotelic Meditative Benefit of Free Dance too…
Fingers Do Dance Free And Bring Soul Songs to Page Wings..:)
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Two very engaging anecdotes! I felt sorry for you, your son, and the teacher in the first. In the second, even if I knew the pastries were safe, I would have refused to eat one because I suffer from diabetes, but I still pity the young man with his generous impulses.
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