{"id":538,"date":"2014-03-31T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=538"},"modified":"2014-03-31T23:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:39:35","slug":"the-air-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"The air out there"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is funny about the lot of us.<\/p>\n

We place a great deal of weight on the weather.\u00a0 I think this began when we, a big collective “WE” of the United States, were mostly those good old farmer-types.<\/p>\n

Things really depended on the weather then.\u00a0 Much more so than now.\u00a0 Sure, nowadays, the commute in to work gets a little crinkly when there is snow in the forecast…. and such.<\/p>\n

But back when everyone was driving horse-drawn-carts on dirt roads, and farming, and the like…. well….. a little rain could make things quite impossible.<\/p>\n

Yet now.\u00a0 It is ALWAYS a big dang deal.\u00a0 And people get paid to make it that way.\u00a0\u00a0 We call them Weathermen.\u00a0\u00a0 Meteorologists.\u00a0 And of course… the sponsors.<\/p>\n

But never mind all of that.\u00a0 Here is where WE are funny …. at least we in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

When fall & winter are approaching… and we’ve just had a balmy summer… and our buns are still tan…. we get out our coats and hats, and gloves and such…. when the thermometer gets down to 50 degrees.\u00a0 “Honnnneeeey…..\u00a0 Time to turn the furnace on… and it is only late October,” we say.<\/p>\n

But in the spring.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 The spring, after months of subzero temperatures, and snow piled high… when those winds outside get to 50 degrees… people put on shorts, and flip\u00a0 flops, and begin leaving doors wide open.<\/p>\n

Same temperature.\u00a0 Two reactions.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I sorta’ think we humans have a tendency to “meet the reality of now”….. with a lot of influence from our past experiences.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Forget about the weiather.\u00a0 Let say you meet Joe.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first few sentences, you find out Joe is a lawyer.\u00a0 And perhaps you had a bad experience with a lawyer.\u00a0 So part of that past history might influence how you feel about the guy… without really knowing him at all.\u00a0 Now that’s not really fair.<\/p>\n

Yet…. this same exact thing helps us to survive.\u00a0 The old lesson about putting your hand on a hot burner.\u00a0 It hurt like the dickens the first time you did it.\u00a0 So your best guess… it is going to hurt you like the dickens again.<\/p>\n

And there I will say it.\u00a0 This reaction to the present, based on past experience,…. can go either way really.\u00a0 It\u00a0 can be a good thing or a bad thing.\u00a0 It can help guide us… or lead us astray.\u00a0 But how exactly do you know?<\/p>\n

How do you know?<\/p>\n

\u201cI never think of the future. It comes soon enough.\u201d – Albert Einstein<\/h1>\n

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