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The Principle Of Effectiveness

A former student text messaged me this morning that she heard I had cancer and wanted something from me professionally. I was glad to hear from her, but how much energy can I put into her or the world at this point?

The Principle of Effectiveness is to only put creative energy where there is a positive chance that what you intend happening will indeed happen for you, given the right circumstances.

Sometimes I read a little war news in Afghanistan and am appalled. This one reporter wrote about their predawn raid on a village supposedly to disarm the villagers.

First, is this a realistic goal? Who are the villagers? They are natives living in their own country with ancestors going back hundreds of years. Who are this morning’s invaders? Americans also paying Afghans to accompany them as troops.

The attack on the village was a failure, loosing lives for the Americans and they all withdrew. The commander asked for helicopters which delayed in coming. Other equipment was not available.

Strephon The Ineffective Cancer Person?

Now we switch to me as a cancer person sick with cancer. Yesterday’s new doctor for me gave me additional medication to handle my edema, which means to help me piss away the excess urine, water and pressure in my stomach and legs and ankles.

I don’t have more than maybe one third physical energy to do things.

Thus I am under battle conditions also. How much of my own food can I make? Can I think straight in writing this article? Is its content worth anything to anyone else?

Bigger Questions

• As the doctors tackle my sickness will they actually solve the cancer problems I am having?

As I also use alternative treatments will these help me get over the cancer, as the alternative healing book says has happened for others?

Effectiveness!

Will what is intended to happen actually happen in reality?

Or will I be one of the failures that simply go under because conditions are too severe?

In Afghanistan if the Americans wanted to be effective, why try and drive and walk up mountainsides in the middle of the night, and also complaining that the enemy has been tipped off?

This is not reality, is it?

If you want to conquer a group of people fighting you, including women and children feeding their men ammunition throughout the fire-fight, then only do actions which clearly give you superiority.

Don’t walk up the mountain, and when trouble comes try and call in helicopters that are not there for you. Only go in with helicopters for a quick landing, get your job done, and pull out quickly. Something like this anyway.

Ethics

Let me just state that I believe passionately that Obama is wrong to have his military, not mine, kill any more people in Afghanistan. Killing people with drones and in wars like this is unethical and anti humanity. We used the real life example because it is real life about effectiveness in life.

In my case with serious lung cancer I keep going to doctors searching out those who have as a chief value being effective in what they do.

I have found the ineffective doctors, and it is my decision to have nothing to do with them. I have learned what effective means in the cancer therapy area. It means that even the doctors are not that effective in what they do with cancer but at least they tell you the truth and try to make changes in your condition.

Thus I as a cancer patient in 2009 am facing battle conditions in which often no one wins. Well, this is good to know also, the truth of what is not working.

• My hope and search is to find out what, if anything, is working in the cancer field.

As alternative I eat asparagus every day. Now I take flax seed oil mixed with cottage cheese, that supposedly has helped many others. But will it help me? And I have all these supplement pills plus the regular medications from the doctors.

I am to bring them all in in their nice blue plastic box when I see the specialist on Friday. Yes, yes. The ridiculous cancer patient, but it’s my life and death at stake.

Do I sound like a very effective person with my cancer symptoms?

Certainly not yet. A lot of lethargy I battle throughout the day. This could easily turn into depression, or the sense of not wanting to struggle longer and try and live.

What for to try and live?

What some cancer people have done who have survived their cancer for years and gotten better is each day picking something positive and staying with that, a day at a time.

Whether battle conditions or cancer, or other supreme difficulty in life, like not having found a fulfilling relationship yet to really grow and go with, the principle is still effectiveness.

At least starting yesterday and going on today there is more urination and defecation so that my body’s wastes are being better released.

Maybe this all is not enough of course, but it seems some positive steps forward.

Keep going, Strephon, keep going. Let the defeats not come from yourself but from outside yourself. Keep going and keep creating any positives you can!

Amen!

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