Common Sense Living

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

- Voltaire

Before the card is dealt, we don't know what it is, we just know the probability. It has a 1 in 52 possibility of being the ace of spades. Before a card is dealt, it is a mix of all 52 cards and it turns into an exact card when it is first seen. The same way, in our lives, there are many possible editions of future. While playing, every time you have to make a conscience choice before playing every single card. This fling varied situations, equations and versions of game. Now is needed Common Sense.

Living Common Sense life means maintaining and using learned knowledge and acquiring new ones or in other words playing down entropy and adding to augmentation. For thousands of years humans have passed on off-beam information to themselves and to each other. Blurry about magic. Blurry about God. Blurry about medicine. Blurry about diet.

Blurry about economics. Blurry about politics.

Blurry about the afterlife. Blurry about the opposite sex. And so on and so forth. If you don't know the truth, this isn't a problem. If you know the truth and you ignore it, you are certain to be misled, constantly. This is entropy. This entropy may mislead you to the extent that you try to solve a math equation with your liver.

Entropy is the process of wasting away the Common Sense. It may be partial or complete. The road to entropy is wide, comfortable and paved with compromises, lies and the refusals. Entropy is the result of choosing comfort zone. When Common Sense in one area entropies, this leads to overall weakness, as knack of life comes from wholeness. It is entropy when after starting a transformation mission your motivation wanes or you are not noticing the progress you made, you are working harder and achieving less. Above comfort zone is courage to abandon it, and above that lies augmentation.

One of the primary strengths to carry on continuously without entropy is the drive, determination and perseverance to outdo oneself. By measuring your progress continually you will never lack a sense of accomplishment and you will be building your confidence with each and every step. Ultimate responsibility goes to you which also includes choosing or creating your environment. You unmindfully choose or create an environment which is supplementary to the process of Entropy. Your environment could be books and magazines you read, friends you are with, movies and TV programs you watch, your hobbies and recreational activities, music you listen to, way you quench the thirst of spirituality, your favorite characters and heroes, the conditions of your home, work or play.

You need to be cautious at every front- physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual as these are interconnected and silhouette each other.

Augmentation comes from something deep inside and induces us to move towards our goal. It is the process of making Common Sense advanced in terms of extent, scope and quality. The process initiates with a leap and bestows us a new backbone, new ears and new eyes, a new nose and a new self. What it takes to make leap is not something you can spend or something which makes you most eligible but it is something you need, want or desire; its why do you live for.

There was a rich landowner. Impressed by his assistant for his loyalty, honesty and services, he offered to give him all the land he could walk around in one day. The condition was that he would have to come back to the same mark from where he started by the sundown. Early the next morning, the assistant set out without eating any breakfast or greeting anyone. His plan was to cover six square miles. When he finished the first six, he decided to make it nine, then twelve, and finally fifteen. He did not stop for food or drink. His legs grew heavier and heavier. About two hundred meters from the finish line, he saw the sun going toward the horizon. He had only a few minutes left. He gathered all his energies for that one last effort. He pushed himself and rushed towards the mark. He fell down in a heap and died. All the land he got was a piece six feet by two for his grave. He died of greed.

Augmentation requires control of one's emotional reactions so that the principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions.

Augmentation helps produce consistently the optimum results with a minimum of time and energy. It is a never ending process. The purpose of augmentation is to make better choices and improved life.

Here are some ways to overcome entropy and work on augmentation:

1. Constantly keep your mind, mood and attitude on check.
2. You can focus on what really matters to you.
3. You can keep with the real world, instead of daydreaming.
4. Identify what you need to do to achieve your goals.
5. Thoroughly understand the situation, person or ideology you are going to devote your life or money or emotions to.
6. You can avoid scams, rip-offs, and swindlers.
7. You can engage in stirring quest to understand yourself and the world around you.
8. You can contribute in finding and promoting solutions that actually work.
9. You can properly filter the stacks of information that comes your way.
10. You can walk away mean spirited comments.

Common Sense is the basic thing which affects the worth of existence of any individual to the above board heights. We are the individuals with different qualities, personalities and moral fibers; these are raised by the way in which we live and they profile who we are. Making decisions involve judgment and making the right ones involve Common Sense. Common Sense has an impact on all segments of life. It impacts our ordinary and extraordinary lives when it exists and when it does not. Common Sense deals with complex issues that are difficult to address adequately by using other approaches. We would not be in the current situation today if Common Sense existed more or less in the past role.