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- Happen Happened Happeneing I left my heart in San Francisco…. Hi y'all!! Welcome to another episode of WANZOLOGY!! I am your host, The Wanz, and it is very, very cool to be comin to ya. This episode is for me, a mind ‘twizzler’. ‘Twizzler’ meaning, that there are seven or eight, nine different ways to think about one thing. And there are substitutions, namely other words that mean the same thing that people, depending on their background and vocabulary will use. But I like this particular word because unlike past, present, future, this word covers all three with itself. That word is happen. Happen means, according to Oxford, to take place or occur, to find or come across by chance. Now happen, unlike past, present, future happen is futuristic, it's only future, right? The word happen has three cases to cover past, present, future. Something is going to happen. Something is happening. Something happened. Now, I think it's very interesting that one word, when expanded could mean different things to different humans, but still the same thing to most humans. You can ‘happen’ upon $20 laying on the floor and pick it up, right? You can wait until something happens, which is another topic all together, right? Because ‘happens’, ‘happening’, which one is current? Which one is past? Is waiting for stuff to ‘happen’ the same as ‘stuff happens’, which is timely. Hence, the curiosity of the word happen…happen, happen, happen. I really dig the word happen to me, it's future. It's a futuristic word talking about looking forward to something. Something is going to ‘happen’. What exactly? I have no idea, because it's the future and telling the future, so not my job!! I'm having many challenges just dealing with the present. Sure, you are too. Everybody has problems with one of the three past, present, or future. Do you see the word happen as being futuristic? You're always waiting for something to happen “It's gonna rain!”, “When?”, “Well, you'll know when it happens!”, but then it becomes present and not ‘pre’ happening, right? And then there's happening, which is the I-N-G appendage, which tells you that the action is currently taking place, “It's happening! Your conversion to my way of thinking is happening!” But now, a few moments later, that conversion has either ‘happened’ or ‘has NOT happened’. When something happens, is that that same as it happening or, can you put it in the context of being ‘happened’, like when something ‘has happened’? Well, you need that extra word, right, to put a time limit on it. The reason that I'm curious about all this is because human beings dig having control. One of the things that humans cannot control is time. The thing about time is that time is one of those things we all worry about. Don't think so? Well then why do you have a calendar? Why do you have a clock? Those are mechanisms used to document the passing of time. How does the song go, “It's astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes control!”, Time Warp!! Humans are the only species of animal on the planet that are focused, sometimes laser focused, on time. How much there is, how much is gone, how much is gonna be, if not ‘now’, ‘when’? There are all these references to time. So when you use the word ‘happen’, what exactly does that mean? ‘Something’ is going to occur. It is going to ‘happen’ depending on your context. You happen upon a great restaurant by just walking by it, you never knew it was there. So it can be descriptive in a way, but it also can be a marker of time. But if you're not obsessed with what's ‘going to happen’, then maybe you are centered in what IS happening that current moment, whatever moment you choose to think of. Because once you've recognized the moment, it immediately becomes the past and is not the moment that IS happening, is it? I didn't think so. So when people say ‘live in the present moment’, ‘live in the moment’, how do you know which moment they're talking about? 'Cause ‘it's’ already gone! If they were talking about this exact moment, well, ‘this’ exact moment was ‘that’ exact moment now has become then happened and we had to go through ‘happening’ to get there! I think it's clever. I think it's way clever separating how you deal with your time management with the three ‘Hs’, happen, happening, happened. It's pretty obvious ‘happening’ is kind of the hardest one. 'cause like I said, as soon as you recognize what is ‘happening’, it has ‘happened’, so you don't really get a lot of time with what's ‘happening’. How do you keep up? Well, you try to remember, or, hopefully whatever happened has left a mark so that you remember the exact timing of what happened. It may sound like I'm talking in circles, but actually I'm not. I mean, there is a distinct difference between ‘what's going to happen’ and ‘what has happened’, right? We both know that, we both feel that. Depending on where you are in the world when you're listening to this breakfast ‘happened’ or is ‘going to happen’. Maybe breakfast is currently ‘happening’, either way, I think the word ‘happen’ is fascinating and I think the context of what could, what should happen is another human construct. Once again, humans think they can control a lot of things. We can't. Time is the biggest thing. None of us has figured out how to stop the world from revolving and as long as the world revolves, time marches on. Right, exactly. So let's get into this happening thing. Present tense. This is where the consequences of a decision actually get actuated. You make a decision, but the action that follows that decision is what's ‘happening’. Like you put all these dishes in the dishwasher, but they're not gonna start to get clean until you press the start button and when you press the start button, that sets off a whole thing, right? You ‘started’ the dishwasher. The washing cycle had not started, it didn't ‘happen’, yet. Now when you're pushing that button, it's an instant, right? You push the button and you ‘pushed’ the button. Pushing the button doesn't last very long before becoming part of the past. As the cycle runs, you get farther and farther ‘past’ the pressing of the button until the cycle's complete. And at the completion of the cycle, it really doesn't matter when you started it, does it? That process of washing the dishes by way of the dishwasher has completed. Remember, process, beginning, middle, end. Some processes are really short, some are really long and some are in between, yes? So there you go. What is happening with you right now? I'm currently sitting in a chair with my hands folded and my thumbs tapping against each other, but that was so a couple seconds ago 'cause now I'm on to doing something else. Looking at the screen, figuring out what to say next, all these things are ‘happening’. So once the ‘happening’ part is over, then they have ‘happened’. What happened? Well earlier we were talking about washing the dishes in the dishwasher and how it went through its cycle, so now, the dishes are washed. The cycle to wash the dishes has ‘happened’, it is part of the past. What I was doing 40 seconds ago, I'm not doing anymore, I'm doing something else. In fact, what I was doing five hours ago has ‘happened’ and now I'm doing something else and you are exactly the same way. We are always ‘happening’. ‘Happening’ is where life ‘happens’, it's where we execute our decisions. We act upon the thoughts that we had before and decided (or made a choice) to act. Then once that act is complete or at least started, then you start evaluating. Was that THE act? Was that an act that I ‘should have’ taken? What's the consequence of that act? Consequence, that is the outcome of every decision you make, every single one. Every single choice that a human being makes has an outcome. That outcome could be a positive outcome, a negative outcome, or a neutral outcome somewhere on a line. In between all of those and us as humans, having made an action, we are evaluating the results. Was it a good decision? Was it a good decision to put my hand on a hot stove, meaning it was red and I wanted to see what the red felt like? No, that wasn't a good decision. That's why a lot of people don't do that. Getting married, that's a decision, and there are some who won't do that. Some that have and it didn't work out, but they're not gonna do it again and there are those who are content never worrying about whether they will or not, they really don't care. There's lots of positions to take when you're talking about past tense, when you're talking about pain and past tense. When you're talking about your ‘self’ (two words) and past tense, you do realize that you have all the experiences that you've ever experienced to draw from. You have a plethora, a dearth, a huge repository of references of things that happened. The brain in its brilliant construction can flip through everything, find that one experience you're looking for and bring it to the front of your mind, even though it was 10 seconds, 10 hours,10 days, 10 months, 10 years in the past. Amazing, isn't it? Humans are always ‘happening’. Part of that happening is preparing for what ‘happens’, and part of that ‘happening’ is understanding what ‘happened’, but we're always ‘happening’. So somebody says,”Yo, what's happenin?”, you can just say, “I am!”, and it would be accurate. Maybe that person wouldn't understand the answer, but that's not your problem, you'd be accurate. We're all happening, happening at the same time. Lastly, keep in mind there are billions of people on this planet, but only one species of human beings, so if we take what we've discovered today about happen, happening, and happened, everybody is executing that process now, now, now, and now. Amazing. Somewhere in the world, something is happening to somebody. In fact, it's probably happening to million, maybe billions of people all at the same time, they're living just like you. I wish a million of them were listening to this podcast, but that's a whole nother episode. When you go make sure that you are ready to make things ‘happen’. You've had enough experience in your life to understand what happened, and then take that knowledge and apply it to what's going to happen, and that will keep you in a good state of happening, if, If you can actually recall the past and apply it to your future. So keep on ‘happening’, baby! Breathing, vital part of happening!! I will talk to you next week. Until then, make it ‘happen’, Cap’n!!