{"id":104,"date":"2020-04-12T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/?p=104"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:18:11","slug":"beyond-survive-into-the-world-of-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/2020\/04\/12\/beyond-survive-into-the-world-of-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Survive into the World of Thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\nvirus? A pandemic? And, we&#8217;re told that age (being old), current health\ncondition and anything less than perfect (my slant on the information given)\nlungs and heart, position one as prime candidate for the terminal journey of the\ncoronavirus now infecting (infesting) virtually every continent in the world. The\nbest method of prevention is to not be exposed to it. Well, isn&#8217;t that special \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\nthat applies to any disease, I recon!! It would apply to life as well. To avoid\ndeath, don&#8217;t be born! Serious stuff with silly expressions of remedies thrown\nits way. We must be careful that we ask the right questions since our participation\nin this journey places us directly in what could be harm&#8217;s way. Even if we know\nthat the thief is hiding along the path we&#8217;ve chosen to travel to accomplish what\nwe determine to be worthwhile, we still need to be alert to all the ways in\nwhich we can be prepared to avoid and or defeat this enemy. The virus has only\none major ambition in life: <em>To produce multiples of itself (propagate)in a way\nthat ensures its expression of life, whether as currently expressed or more\nefficiently and effectively, to evolve into its fullest potential. <\/em>No one has\na valid clue about into what it could ultimately evolve. It has no clue as to\nits evolutionary destination, but that does not stop or curtail the processes\nit must undertake to accomplish its end. Wow! It is impossible to communicate\nwith it at our or its level of understanding. We cannot influence its drive to engage\nin its nature to replicate, duplicate, or evolve into what it is in its\ndestiny. We CAN learn how it lives outside it&#8217;s apparent host(s), (humans and\npotentially others in the animal kingdom), what ignites its infection\/infestation\nin a potential host, the weaknesses in its replication process and any number\nof other possible means by which we may find a win over its desire for life. This\nminiscule occupant of the living world that we mutually share shows us, in a way\nwe&#8217;ve not experienced in quite this fashion worldwide, that the routine of life\nis not one we should take for granted. We&#8217;ve been suddenly thrown into the task\nof having to analyze our vulnerability, our strengths, the most positive action\nand interaction in our family and community in which we should engage. The social\nand emotional interactions that we have become accustomed to and to even expect\nin our relationships have been turned on their proverbial ear. This possessor\nof a Thriving Heart that is experienced as a gift from my creator that is to be\nnurtured by action that demonstrates my gratitude for the opportunities that\nhave been given, and that are yet to be given, and that reflect the magnificent\nlove and care of the Creator and Sustainer of this space in time we call life. May\nwe each find the space and place wherein we may thrive in the challenge of life\nthat is beyond, career, finances, and or traditional relationships. Our\nchallenge is not simply life or death, but rather our challenge is to live with\nthe mind of one who thrives, taking each moment beyond a desire to simply survive.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virus? A pandemic? And, we&#8217;re told that age (being old), current health condition and anything less than perfect (my slant on the information given) lungs and heart, position one as prime candidate for the terminal journey of the coronavirus now infecting (infesting) virtually every continent in the world. The best method of prevention is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parkinsons-disease-rants-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}