Lessons and Thoughts about this and that; Principles

Have you ever thought: I don't deserve to be treated this or that way? I didn't deserve this or that to happen to me? What about, even better, have a friend ever told you in the most loving manner, you do not deserve to be treated this or that way, or perhaps a, you deserve better? I am certain I have not only heard it from my friends but I have thought about it too when things haven't gone my way in more than one occasion. Was I right? did I have the right to feel I deserved differently? Am I entitled to a better treatment from others? I think I should be! wait a minute, am I? To get a better idea of where all these words came from and how we have come to inherit them and make them part of our daily vocabulary I had to go to the past a little. It seems that somewhere during the 12th century (give or take) the ruling class came up with this idea that the doings of certain courtesans, their devoted and extreme cases of service, will merit something special from them, th

I had never thought of time as an allotted gift but I suppose that if we are to think that either in my genes or by God given will my days are counted, one can conclude that time is a very specific and measurable thing. On the spectrum of eternity one can also think that time (the time we are allotted to live on this earth, on this life, our day to day experiences) is but a portion of this continuum, a rather small portion but a finite portion nonetheless. If time is one of the assets I have been given with birth, what am I supposed to do with it? I purposely used the word asset to make the jump unto this idea of time as an asset. Is it time an asset? is it valuable? can it yield future value? Muslims believe time is a "amaanah" a trust rather, something given to us by the supreme creator in trust, something we are ought to respond for one day. Budhists call it either "ksana" or "kalpa" the units of measurement of such thing as time and that the reali