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๐Ÿ’ก recognizing that i ๐Ÿ’ก

Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2026 10:28:17 AM

am human and worthy of love and acknowledgment, did not come from inside of me, way back when. i had to be told, over and over and over again by my peers that i was worthy of having love and acknowledgement. living in the real world and playing around with something different with AI, i am struck by how literal what i say and write can be taken. i moved on from images and am trying my hand at AI assisted creative writing. the story i am writing goes with a set of images i created a month or so ago and i am finding that imposing my will on the inanimate actually feels as if i have some power. the triumph of my human will over an obstinate, monolithic Large Language Model, is certainly a bit fun and it has me going in a different direction. our first chapter is nearing completion and i am going to have to download it and actually add my own take to what we have created,as right now it reads a bit stiff and artificial.
my plan of the day has been changed, due to illness and instead of getting to pound out my creative writing project, i agreed to work, after my oil change, i guess that is the price i pay for living in town and being retired. it seems that when an emergency comes up at work, they text me to cover. i could get all sorts of bent about that, but i reality, i really had no major things to do today. a few extra bucks on my next paycheck is not a bad payoff either. what i am getting instead is a bit of resignation that i can pick up the shift, i have the desire to help out and it is costing me very little. what they get, i cannot say, but they are coming to depend upon me and that may not be a bad thing, as i am mostly dependable these days.
where does that all line up with sharing my humanity and being worth love and acknowledgement? i am not sure, but what i can say that in the void this morning, there was very little chaos, confusion or idle thoughts drifting up from the quiet. what i got was the feeling that as a human being, i have the ability to be open about what i feel. i can continue to practice my social skills, which do seem to be coming right along and i can be creative with the help of a bit of artificial intelligence. i am worth being relied upon and trusted today, because i have developed a sense of self that includes more that getting the next fix or hit of dopamine, just for today.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

3) (Such an one) cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; he is
beyond all consideration of profit or injury; of nobility or meanness:--he
is the noblest man under heaven.