231209 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Tripped up short, still set.
Back before we're ready, set.
Go to my happy.

Today's Meditation(s):

Patriotism . . .  noun: devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty. (Dictionary.com)

It seems that many who use the term really mean nationalism: my country right or wrong.

But any patriotic pride, excessive or not, makes no sense.

Amorphous good feelings based on something I had nothing to do with is illogical and unrewarding. It is both prior to me and separate from me, a paradigm of 'not within my control'.

Instead of trying to steal meaning from someone else's actions, or for an accident of my birth, focus on building my own meaning now, today, myself.