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The Evolved Ape- Be Strong, Be Kind, and Be Beautiful

Friday, June 11, 2021,

"Be strong, be kind, and be beautiful", is, from what I've heard, a Korean proverb (who knows if that's accurate or not), but the phrase resonated with me when I heard it years ago, and it's stuck with me. 

As I've written many times before, we're all physically nothing more than intelligent, and evolved, apes living in our evolved ape bodies and thinking with our evolved ape brains.  We're bound into it, and we're constrained by it; and we always will be, until the day we die.

Since we are all encased in our evolved ape bodies/minds, we have to live alongside that ugliness, and everything that comes with it. Much of the ugliness, however, lives inside our heads and can become over complicated through confusion, overthinking, and other deficiencies.  

Can this evolved ape ever be beautiful?  Beautiful, not in the physical sense, but beautiful in the control that's achieved over the ape-body and the ape-mind.  Yes, that will make you beautiful (whether you're 16 or 60).



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