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Flourish

BY: T. Franklin Murphy | December 2017
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Environments dictate the success and failure of life. We flourish when environments are accommodating. But humans can transcend this, achieving more than the world would otherwise dictate.
Living organisms have a knack for survival. We absorb the punches and continue. Survival is our badge of courage, displaying perseverance and remarkable resiliency. Environments can be harsh and unforgiving—but we adapt and survive. The applause sounds loud for the miracle of life. All life isn’t the same; some struggle for a single bloom while others constantly explode in color—they flourish. We should proudly display the beauty whether we display the purity of a single morning glory or the heavily weighted branches of a gaudy rose bush. Our blooms share our liveliness and blessings. The flourishing life isn’t expressed through accumulating successes but from our relationship with life.
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We influence our environments but don’t control it. The surrounding unknown circumstances impact our growth in many positive and negative ways. We hamper our openness to experience if we under value the complexity of the encircling world and the unpredictableness of complex system contributing to life. We are challenged to exploit what we know and explore the depths of what we don’t, curiously gaining deeper appreciation for the living process of birth, growth, decline and death. Even the abundantly decorated rose eventually droops, dropping its beautiful petals to the rich soil beneath.  


Flourishing happens within the natural boundaries of existence, extracting nutrients and resources from the surrounding environment and translating them into internal growth. Environments also contain toxins. Our relationships, employments, economies and governments provide a mixture of blessings and curses, sustenance and poison; not evenly divided or fairly distributed. This is the world we live in and the conditions of our independent and collective battles.
 
The stubborn Morning Glory, fighting terrible odds for existence, may represent flourishing more than the most dazzling rose.
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​We don’t feign health if health doesn’t exist but we also shouldn’t shamefully bow our heads when our mere survival is a magnificent accomplishment of human flourishing. So, we move forward, carefully approaching and wisely withdrawing, engaging life on its terms but responding on our terms, developing a resilient and skilled self to balance difficulty with pleasure, and knowledge with ignorance. We flourish.
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We must courageously accept the imperfectness of life to learn the areas in our lives that need addressing.
FLS Link: The Right to Happiness. We live in a serious world, full of deadlines and commitments. We can step away from the chaos to catch our breath and enjoy a few smiles without guilt.
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Our futures are not set in stone. We can adjust the outcome, work through current consequences from the past and set our lives on a better trajectory.
FLS internal Link. Negativity: The natural feeling responses to experience give both wisdom and limiting bias. As cognitive creatures, we need to examine what we are feeling, how we interpret that feeling, and determine the utility of our natural inclinations.

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FLS Link: Hope Theory: Motivation to Succeed. Hope is more than an optimistic reliance on unseen forces. Hope, according to Hope Theory, is a combination of three elements: realistic goals, energetic determination, and intelligent pursuit.
We confront the overwhelming experiences of life through a variety of escapes. A healthy adults adaptation mature as they grow, allowing for contact with reality; others, however, build deeper deviations from reality and squander the richness of living.
We are engaged in a constant work of becoming, satisfying needs, entertaining wants, and creating meaning. We can do this purposely or haphazardly.
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Environments dictate the success and failure of life. We flourish when environments are accommodating. But humans can transcend this, achieving more than the world would otherwise dictate.


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