David Alade

I generated this image to make you understand my point better. Even though Man City finished second on the English Premier League table and Manchester United finished third, Man City are in a mournful sadness while Man United are celebrating. This is the philosophical condition of all human ambition. Our joy and suffering are not measured in absolute position, but in distance from where we thought we would be.

The past ~3 years, starting in January 2024, have been one exam after another for me - no break in between. Prepare for one, write it, start preparing for another, write it, fail some and rewrite. And this won’t end until about a year from now. Just completed another one now again. Just an observation.

Daniel, maybe, just maybe what you are attempting to describe isn’t human. But i understand why your frame of reference for description would be human. Humans are the highest level of creation known to those to whom you write to retell your vision. A. W. Tozer: Daniel lifted up his eyes and saw One whose “body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.” Tozer also: “…we who dwell in a world of matter, space, and time tend to think in material terms and can grasp abstract ideas only when they are identified in some way with material things.” Indeed, the Holy one whom you stand before is not comparable to human.

The funny thing about the heaven they all talk about is that they’ve failed at projecting something that looks un-earthly. You’ll hear things like sitting on a throne, book of life, gates of heaven - all these are pure human imaginations & creations. No human being can project what happens in the after-life. Our brain is too limited for that

Looks like Arsenal still stand a chance of winning the premier league. Or am I being too optimistic?

This is equivalent to trying to sell a cop drugs while he’s in uniform in his police car.

When you are pursuing something, be watchful for when the metric turns into the goal. It’s often a very delicate line and extremely easy to cross. Let me use a recent example. I started using the Bible app for my daily Bible reading because it is the easiest to help keep track of actually doing so daily without any additional effort from my end. At some point along the way though, it became more important that the metric (streaks) is not broken. Instead of the original goal of a day shouldn’t go by without me reading the Bible. So there were times I wouldn’t read but still open the app just to keep the streaks going. The metric had become the goal. I woke up one day and realised this flip. My action was to break the streak immediately. I do not care about the metric if it has become the goal. Since then, I have gone days here and there again without reading the Bible as it’s hard to keep track without the streaks. As a result, I have resumed tracking again with the streaks. For now, I am still focused and optimising on the goal. I would be happy to break the streaks and start over again if the metric becomes the goal. That’s one way in which the metric can become the goal in your pursuit. Be mindful of it and be ready to recalibrate because the goal is never the metric.

You do not have to blow through it either. Pick a few verses or a chapter a day and really focus on what is being said. Over time with guidance of the Holy Ghost, your studying will show you approved. People who read too quickly or try to do reading challenges