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 %SELECT DECIDE AUDIENCE ESTEEM RESPECT ACCEPT LOVE 901028

     We  select the audience whose esteem and  respect  we
court.  We  select who we want to accept and love us.   We
decide that we want the love and affection of some people,
more than  we want the love and affection of other people.
In  those  selections and decisions we make some  of   the
most important selections and decisions of our lives.

     How  we  play  out our lives depends on whom  we  are
playing   t  as   an  audience.    The  values,    ideals,
assumptions of our audience  will be mirrored in the drama
of  our  lives.     We will  do  well to  choose  for  our
audience people  who  are healthy and truly worthy of  our
respect.   If they are  not honest people, we are unlikely
to be honest. If we are not honest,    we cannot be honest
with ourselves to learn from our  mistakes,    and then we
cannot   avoid   those   diseases  which  flow  from   our
mistakes.

     Our choices of friends,  mentors, heroes and the like
are  o great  importance.    We will do well to make   our
choices  thoughtfully  with  sensitivity  to questions  of
health, integrity, honesty, and responsiveness.  We become
like  the people we spend most of our time with.    If  we
choose  to be with unhealthy people as friends of  choice,
we are likely to become unhealthy.

     Our  choices  of  friends may be more  implicit  than
explicit.   We   may  in our imagination choose people  to
play   to   as audience,   with those people whom we  have
chosen  while  not being  aware  of  our choice  of  them.
Our  drama   and   our audience  may  exist  more  in  our
imagination than  in  our overt daily life. Even so,   our
choices  of  people to be in our  audience  are  important
choices,   for to them we  play out the drama of our life.
It   is  what  we  imagine  that  they  will   respond  to
positively  which is that we do.    In  our imagination we
court their favor, and in our reality it is our  imaginary
friends  who rule our lives.   We  need  to choose    such
powerful   people  carefully  with   careful consideration
of   questions  of  health,   integrity,    honesty,   and
responsiveness.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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