You're an individual; you're you and can't be anything other that that. You can change your thoughts, attitudes, behaviours, actions and even your habits, but no matter what you do, all you can ever be is yourself. That's kind of cool right? It makes you responsible for your progression in life and what you get out of it; You, me and everyone we know has the chance and choice to create our ideal lives, it's cool to be human and have that ability.
Having said that, you're sort of an acorn also.
𝕐𝕠𝕦❜𝕣𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕟
Inside an acorn is a super solid massive oak tree...it just hasn't happened yet.
Add quality soil, nutrients, water and sunshine and out it comes growing, developing and basically doing what oak trees do. You're like that and so am I. We just need the right start, some of the right elements consistently and the will to make of ourselves what we wish ourselves to be and, like Mr. Kipling says above, "no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
I've used the acorn and oak tree analogy in my coaching, training and mentoring roles. We can stay in that little acorn safe and sound, or do what's required to get the fuck out of it and make something of ourselves. I've never seen a person make themselves into an oak tree of course, but I've seen people create amazing lives around themselves, take ownership and responsibility and show the discipline to make it so...and we all have that opportunity.
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕟𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕖
I'm not actually sure if there is a relation between these two things at all, but like an acorn, oak tree and coffee which are all individual to each other, so are we and, like I said in a post yesterday, we should embrace that.
Today I was sitting in a café sipping a coffee thinking about the type of coffee I drink and how it's changed over the years with the changes in myself, and how each of us prefers a certain way to have it, or to not have it at all.
Espresso, ristretto, long black, doppio, short macchiato, cappuccino, long macchiato, americano, piccolo, caffe latte, flat white, iced coffee, mocha, cold drip, cold brew, dirty chai...there's others also...there's so many different ways to have coffee.
I usually have a long black (basically an americano) with a dash of milk, long or short macchiato, espresso and sometimes a flat white. It usually depends on the available time, whether I'm sitting or on the move, having a meeting or by myself, and various other factors. When drinking flat white and americano coffee I only ever order small cups rather than medium, large or extra large and rarely will I ask for anything but normal milk. But that's just me.
We're all different, sort of like oak trees and acorns, and have the ability to make individual choices.
𝔾𝕖𝕥 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕒𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕟
I've found the best way to be me is through displaying those three traits I mention above: Ownership, responsibility and discipline. It works for others too.
Getting out of your acorn means moving outside the convenient paradigms we bound ourselves with, pushing through the comfort zones and getting a little uncomfortable, doing difficult things, and to being present in one's life rather than a passenger; understanding that our time in life is finite. I don't know, call me crazy, but that seems to be the best use of a life that has an ending point; waiting for things to happen seems a little lazy and I'm the actively work towards making things happen guy. It's paid dividends.
It's amazing what thoungs one can have over a cup of coffee huh? Anyway, enough about acorns, oak trees and you being the best version of yourself at any given point of your life. I want to ask you a serious question.
ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕠 𝕔𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕖
If you're interested in joining the conversation please do so below. Tell me about how you drink coffee the types, styles and quantities...or tea, mate, hot chocolate or any other beverage besides. Maybe comment on how you live your best life and actively work towards creating it. Maybe you're an acorn-lover and want to talk about fucken acorns...it doesn't matter, just get involved in the comments section if you're so inclined.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp
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This image is mine, and I performed magic to erase the colour using my finger and iPad.
After reading your analogies very carefully they are totally reasonable, I consider that if it applies in our lives you also talk in some way about self discernment, as well as the types of coffee you drink.
After reading and how we can be ourselves, you reminded me of my grandfather's words.
He once said to me.
Son, go slowly, that always where you have to go, is to yourself.
Well yes, in a way, in order to get to the end of life we always go to ourselves, either with a good cup of black coffee, or a coffee with milk as it is the custom to drink it here in my country, in short, like the same acorn that on its way becomes a great oak tree.
This is wise indeed, he was a smart man.
Many people either do not believe in themselves and don't try to progress, develop and live their best life, or expect it to happen without any personal input, the expectation ethos, and there's yet other ways to proceed in life too I guess. Staying comfortable, in place, within safe spaces, is one way to go but it will often inhibit growth because achieving things takes effort and the ability to get outside of one's comfort zones.
I think
you're an acorn, were an acorn, and found a way, and the courage, to break out and grow...Well done.I learned this in a hard way. I was in habit of trusting anybody easily, but most of time I ended up being used for the8r own purpose. Gradually, I learned how our society are, they are there only to entertain themselves, and nothing to do what other goes through.
As I started spending more time with myself, I started enjoying, from solo trip to solo study . It develops a more faith one myself rather than dependent on others....
I am a strong advocate of self-dependence over reliance upon others, although we also have to rely on others from time to tom. I guess, that self-dependency has to be strongest in respect of one's own thoughts and attitudes because people can't have them for us right?
I'm not one to like being taken advantage of, lied to and to have people misrepresent themselves, I found out only yesterday that someone I was close to has been doing that...I just walk away, it's easier, and I'm not inclined to have people like that around me anyway. They don't deserve me.
Thanks for commenting.
I'am here 😂
I like my coffee strong, with milk and sugar, a little. In the morning I drink a 4-cup pot by myself. Because I put it next to me while I work and drink it.
Then I don't drink coffee all day long.... 😂😶🌫️
When I run out of coffee and can't find coffee to buy, I'll make myself a tea out of anything. Whatever I find in my backyard. Guava leaf, lemon, anise, oregano, mango, whatever... Mint. Chamomile.
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And about the acorn... Well, yes. I know no limits to growth. As long as I have life left, I will grow. That's why I try to learn something every day.
On the other hand, I consider that we have to get together with people who help us grow, from whom we can learn something, not with people who waste our time and fill us with negativity and sadness.
A four-cup pot all yourself? You're at ninja-level coffee drinking!
I' love tea also, been getting into French Earl Grey lately, so good for these cold days.
I thought you might be an acorn, or at least someone who used to be one...but then, does the growth ever really stop? I don't think so. Others can help us grow and develop also, the good and bad influences and just what we observe; I think it's wise to be open to it all.
Yep, I dealt with one such person here today. Rather harshly.
If you didn't drown in the coffee, I hope it's the real galenkp responding and not a doppelganger. I just see a face and an eye there asking for help.
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The real me, I can assure you, I don't operate by proxy here, I represent myself, take it or leave it. I assume, though, because I present as my real self rather than playing a role, some won't agree or relate and that's ok by me.
Hey, that's the way it should be. And no concessions.
I get a bad rap for being straightforward and honest. I know you're the real deal. I know you are. I was just pointing out that the coffee photo is intriguing. Good picture. Hahaha... Nice to read over here. Although I missed the flower one, but I'm really tired because I had to be out in the street in the blazing sun and in buses full of people.... Which I hate.
Oh the image...Yeah, that was the other day...My coffee turned up before my breakfast so I figured I'd grab a shot and then performed some finger/iPad magic on it to get this image.
Uggh! Buses full of people. My worst nightmare.
Hey, it was serious. With DV, the mother of tomatoes and an all inclusive. Oh mamma mia. 😂
I don't drink coffee much but whenever I drink tea or coffee I have this habit of overthinking. Sometimes overthinking get entangled with the thinking of surroundings. I even love to notice the surrounding's movement. Hearing the voices, seeing the skies and birds and gossiping in my own mind.
I just wrote a post about overthinking actually, it'll get published later.
Noticing what is around us, observation, is a good way to gather information that we can evaluate and discard or use to carry us forward. There are lessons all around us if we care to look, even in our own actions.
Here in Malaga it is also called this way and here a category was created for the coffee that is typical of this city.
For example, I like shadow coffee, a lot of milk and little coffee, and the inverse of yours is called cloud.
But as you know I drink mate hahaha, in winter I drink mate with just a teaspoon of sugar at the beginning and no more, sometimes I add coffee and it gives it another flavour... yes coffee. you would love it. The water should be at 80 degrees.
In winter I drink mate but cold, like now, it is made with juice of whatever you like most, peach is my favourite and a lot of ice, with that liquid the mate is made.
This works for me. In my life I am disciplined, orderly, responsible and very constant, until I finish a job I am not calm... sometimes too responsible.
I take care and train myself to take care of my thoughts, words and to put into action what is necessary to attract what I want. Life without action... you don't get things out of nothing, you have to do, do and do.
Well, I don't have much to say about the bellotas.... hahahaha
I still have to get some mate, I'll do it though, and do a post on it.
We are all different types and respond to different things I guess, but for me *ownership, responsibility and discipline work best. I don't relate well to people who don't apply those things either, probably because I expect it of myself and that pushes outwards to others.
I will wait for the publication about the mate!
It is true that when we relate to people who do not apply those principles it becomes complicated because they follow different paths, different results are reached.
I think I touched on this before, but I more of a tea guy. Black and Green are my favorites in that order.
I drink both depending on what's going on, just finished a cup on French Earl Grey...I'll have a coffee later, even though it's almost 10pm.
Coffee puts me to sleep. I like Earl Grey.
Earl Grey is somewhat of a go-to for me, my mum (mom) used to drink it and it stuck with me.
I think I have a box of it up in my cupboard. Either that or English breakfast.
English Breakfast is another of my favourites. I'd say I drink 70% coffee and 30% tea generally, I enjoy either and am not fussed either way.
You can make a coffee substitute with ground up acorns. So there's an connection.
I'm with you, life is a gift, we've got to remember that. Take charge and make it your own.
I don't drink coffee never have. In the cooler months I make chaga tea and I like to drink that. Its wonderful stuff.
I really enjoyed this post,
It really resonated with me, besides the coffee drinking bit lol xx
WTF? What's it called, acornee?
Take charge and make it your own, is exactly what it's all about. Many will float along and take a passive role in their lives, some even place it in the hands of imaginary friends, but there's no substitute for taking control of it and having the thoughts and taking the actions that will positively affect it.
I don't actually know what it's called, only that it can be used in that way. Acornee would be hilarious. Xx
Nescafe acornee. (A marketers dream.)
Seriously some great ideas have been shared on here. From nipple Tweaking academy, to now this, Nescafe Acornee.
It's just flowing xx
Well, cracked acorns tend to come up with some nutbag ideas I guess. Lol.
Great analogy. Once you realise you're uniquely YOU and that's an awesome thing, the seed pod cracks and the seedling starts to grow.
And the relationship between acorns and coffee? YOu can make a drink out of acorns, called - wait for it - acorn coffee. Now, one is always going to have actual coffee if one has a choice, but if one is starving and thirsty and one only has acorns, and time, wellllll....
I'm a cracked seed pod in many aspects. I own it.
I think I'll stick to coffee, acornee doesn't have the same ring to it.
I take my coffee black, and I make it with a cheap drip machine. I most recently bought a tub of Yuban coffee to try, and I like it well enough.
I have a set of Reaper Mouslings I bought to paint for fun, and it's amusing to bring a mouse warrior with an acorn cap shield to the table when everyone else is super serious gamer mode.
Less acorn-related, but still oak-y, Australian author John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series has been quite popular for many years now at my library. The oak leaf is an emblem of the Rangers who serve as scouts and warriors in a low-magic fantasy world.
Lolled on the mouse warrior with an acorn cap shield thing. What sort of comments (or looks do you get?)
Even super serious gamers are suckers for hand-painted miniatures and cute anthropomorphic animals. The only person I've seen object had a rodent phobia.
I have a heap of hand painted lead war figurines and military materiel from the Napoleonic Wars, Civil War and others. They were cast and painted by a friend of the family and given to one of my brothers when he was a young kid; I have them for safe-keeping. They're pretty cool.
I like my coffee strong and sometimes will throw a little milk or something in it. Most times I can clear almost an entire pot. There may be a half cup or so left usually. I jsut nuke it the next morning while a fresh pot brews. Hope your week is going well.
Oh man, microwaved coffee the next day? I can't do it anymore, but there was a time I could, back in the day. I'd find a cup of half-drunk coffee in my office or some other place and either down it or microwave it then gulp it down (depending on available time)...So many years of doing that...I just can't do it now. They breed 'em tough in the Core uh? Lol
The week is going ok, Thursday night now, one day to go which I think should be a pretty good one. I've no complaints really. I hope you're having a good one too.
Nah, I like day old nuked coffee. It has a different taste to it.
Yep, all good here.
Hard core. 😉
Acorns... oaks... acorns.... oaks.... and sometimes when you're an acorn, you just get eaten by a squirrel ! LOL
Coffee ... hmmmm.... My parents had a pot of coffee perking every morning before I woke up. It smelled so wonderful. Because of the caffeine, they did not let us have any of it early. I don't know what age I was when I had my first taste. BOY ! was I surprised ! It was HORRBLE !! LOL... ewww ...bitter.... yuck !
Then I grew up and I still didn't start drinking it till my early 40s. When all the coffee houses started springing up and had the very sweet flavored coffees, THEN I thought I needed to try a few, usually something that had a vanilla flavor. I found I liked it that way, but for real, you know that is not really coffee drinking. Within a couple of years I moved across the country and the facility I worked in ran 24/7, so there was always coffee in the breakroom, provided by the company. Since it was available and free, I began to have a cup nearly every morning that I worked. Sometimes I would put the slightest bit of sugar in it, just to balance the bitter, but not enough to make it extra sweet. I stopped that though and mostly drink it black. What I make it with my drip pot at home it is nearly always black and when I drink it at Mom's I drink it black. On rare occasion I might put something like amaretto in it as I love that flavor. I do like different kinds of coffee though and they do taste really different depending on the lightness or darkness of the roast. I normally like something along the medium roast though. I rarely buy real cream, but it does make a great cold coffee beverage, to put some in a strong cup of coffee. That's pretty yummy too.
I see I was kind of rambling all over there. I suppose I don't have just one rule and will try most any kind at least once. In general I do love good coffee and mostly just drink mine black unless I go to a coffee house and then I get something flavored.... with an extra shot of expresso in it. That really rarely happens anymore though.
I wasn't permitted coffee for a long time either, in fact I can't even recall the age at which my parents allowed it, early teens I guess, but that's a guess. My mum was more of a tea drinker and my did wasn't all that keen on either.
Forty years old? Yep, I know a few like you who have not tried it, or tried it and didn't like it and then acquired the taste later on in life. (life starts at 40 they say.)
I was chatting with someone the other day, cannot recall who, about the way our tastes change. Like olives...many hate them early on and then come to love them. Other things too...I used to hate pumpkin, brussels sprouts, broccoli and stuff like that when I was a kid and now I eat fresh produce like that daily, and love it. Music, clothing, books, movies, tolerance to noise...so many things change as we get older huh?
Well, trusting people used to be sweet but not anymore. Since I became an adult, I saw life in different dimension and I continued to see more reasons why I should not trust people.
Trust is good but can be very risky
Yep, I trust people very slowly and when that trust is betrayed and they lose it, it's gone forever.
I agree, trust can be so valuable, but some people are just assholes and they betray that trust...it can be a slippery slope.
Wow! That’s a great post, I guess you are right with your perspective about us. I think we have the ability to be able to be the best version of ourselves, we can change our character behavior habits and a lot more, but at the end, all we find is ourselves, nothing more. I think it's superb to be able to in charge of our life. or been ourselves.I think every person has his or her of having coffee and I guess there’s no high price for owning ourselves. I believe every human can choose and decide how we live our life’s, thanks for sharing this content with us.
We all do...but some don't make the effort.
Thanks for paraphrasing my post, taking what I said and repeating it in different words.
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Hello mate,
I was feeling really sorry about the things that messed up between us.
Actually, there is a cultural difference between us, and that was the reason that I was unable to convince you on my previous comment which really offended you.
So I wanted to say sorry for all that.
Well said, mate.
But if an acorn isn't provided with the quality things, it would not grow up. The same is the case with us, if we are not provided with a good start that might cause us a big loss in life.
Like I am a newbie here and I unknowingly offended a pro here and he did the same. He helped me to get a good a start here but in moments he took that all back.(pointing all fingers towards you, because I was much disheartened).
You shouldn't have given me those rc at that time if you were giving for taking them back.
Well, no worries, I will continue my journey here and as it is said that
"Slow and steady wins the race".
And one thing more, still I like to read your posts and would be always engaging with you.
Are you telling me what I should and shouldn't do with my own resource credits? I think you are. I'm pointing the finger at you and suggesting that to tell someone else what to do with things that are theirs is out of line.
Good luck with your onward journey.
Goodbye.
Lol
I wasn't suggesting anything to anyone. I was just saying that I felt very bad when you took mine back.
If you are taking it in the wrong way, what can I do but I never meant anything like suggesting someone about their things.
I do like it with milk and cream when I've free time and want to enjoy the coffee.
But when I have to serious work I would take 3-4 large Mugs of black coffee to get the work done over-night.
Also small suggestion from my point of view with all respect towards your writing-
Maybe you can or could avoid F** words its not like that It offended me but I found your writting so smooth that I found the F**** words doesn't suite there.
Anyway loved it <3!
Nah, I swear in real life and on Hive I'm the real me so swearing happens. You say you weren't offended and that's ok, but if you were I'd give you the same advice, you can choose to not read my posts.
I will be the real version of me here, and in real life, I'm no one's puppet.
All the best.
Well that was rude! You can swear but that also creates a negative vibe. & Tone of your original post was way nicer then this comment!
Cool man! You lost one reader.... I was hopeful & found your writing interesting but this one "who cares" and attacking comment changed my mind.
Not so cool!
Rude?
I told you my opinion on who I present myself here as, my true self, and you call that rude? I didn't swear, wasn't argumentative, just stated the facts and that I'll not dance to anyone else's tune.
You are a rude cunt, a rude and entitled cunt. You can fuck off, well and truly, just fuck off, as your opinion doesn't matter to me; crawl back into your little fucken hole, share your opinion with people who give a fuck and don't come over here telling me how I can fucken post here on my own posts? Got it?
I didn't told you just shared what I think! because I enjoyed your writing and I personally find that without that F word it would be nice to look at. You can do whatever you want.
You don't know when to stop do you?