The Ingredients of Out Lives - Influencing What Affects Us

What I do today will affect me tomorrow. (Therefore, I better do good today !!)

Our activities can be divided between those that help us Survive and those that help us Thrive. I am assuming Survival includes food, clothing and a place to live. Thriving could be considered to mean surviving comfortably, safeguarding our future etc.

Now, Consider this - Our lives are governed by many entities, including - the people we live with, the people we work with, the location of our residence and work, the people governing us, the environment etc. These entities form the various Ingredients of our Lives. These ingredients shape our lives. If we engage in activities that positively influence them, they will affect us favourably in return. But if we neglect them, we are in danger of an adverse impact.

"For us to survive and thrive, our activities must positively influence All the Ingredients that our Lives are made of". In other words - We can Control our Lives !! Only problem is - There's just too many ingredients now !! :-)

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Some related thoughts:
- Positive influence is relative. What is right for one, is wrong for another. Was there a time when there was no distinction between right and wrong? Regardless, it sure feels like there is enough wrong around us 'now', to easily differentiate it from the right.
- Do we now have more ingredients than we began with?
- "Survival of the Fittest" when applied to the humans, must mean - "To Survive you need to keep all your Ingredients Fit" and NOT - "If you can defeat me, you survive". Now, you do count as one of my life's ingredients. See... :-)