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OPM Medical Retirement: Forgetting for a moment

Posted onAugust 26, 2017September 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a game we play, or perhaps “have to” in order to retain our fantasy-world and “pretend” selves. We like to think that we gave up, long ago, those childish dreams and fantasies we engaged and tolerated as younger selves, and that as adults we must daily face the realities of problems encountered, difficulties arisen and turmoil challenged. But we haven’t. We have merely replaced it with another, more productive methodology of play-acting: Forgetting, for the moment. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: Remorseless solitude

Posted onMay 17, 2017December 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How often is there a cry to be “left alone”? By how many people, in what quantifiable slice of life and order of living despite obligations and responsibilities that may be abandoned, do we embrace those periods of remorseless solitude? […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement Benefits: That oppressive air

Posted onJuly 9, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are circumstances in life when the environment becomes so intolerable, that one just has an inkling to “chuck it all” and walk away. Fortunately, the human animal possesses a measure of self-discipline and restraint; although, looking at the excesses of the world around us, one would never know it. If you watch and read the news, one would logically conclude that the world around us is falling apart and disintegrating at the seams. If you hermetically seal one’s life and shut down all communication devices, happiness may well abound in the bliss of ignorance, but you will be deemed to be either mad or uncouth. That is, in fact, what the ad agencies wanted us to believe, wasn’t it? […] Read More …

OPM Medical Separation & Retirement: Of self-expression in society

Posted onApril 20, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There exists a proportionate correlation if charted on a graph, between the rise of a need for greater self-expression and the alienation from the individual from a sense of belonging and community. The human animal has an inner need for acceptance and comity within the context of societal cohesion, and this is no different from other species and their behavioral patterns, excepting the “lone wolf” characteristics where mating or predatory consummation represents the only points of contact. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Comfort Zones

Posted onAugust 21, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

For animals, they are often designated as “arc of flight” — that invisible periphery where violation results in immediate retreat or thoughtless stampede. For humans, it is identified as one’s “space”, or “privacy bubble”, and while self-control and societal norms have curtailed and somewhat dulled the thousands of years of evolutionary refinements to reactive instincts, the palpable discomfort manifested, the shifting unease of taboos violated, and for some, an onset of panic and heightened anxiety are the resulting characteristics of Darwinian antecedents. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: A Day Does Not a Life Make, Nor a Decade

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The tragedy of extinguishment is the failure to recognize future potentiality. We often gauge the value of a lifetime based upon the quality of any given day. Yet, what happens in an arbitrary period of a life, whether viewed randomly on a day, or even assessed and evaluated over a decade, will rarely reflect the comparative worth of a lifetime as analyzed on a linear continuum. Youth is a wasted period of emergence; […]
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OPM Medical Retirement: Word Additions

Posted onJanuary 15, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

When viewing a landscape, does the utterance of words add anything to the beauty or desolation? When rage wells up within a tormented soul, do words which convey a rational thought process ameliorate the temperament in any way? Whether, in the evolutionary progression of one’s biological apparatus, the appearance of language beyond fundamental communication (e.g., for advanced warning of dangers, conveying of location, and similarly basic devices of informational immediacy) enhances the meaningfulness of the thing itself, is a question beyond mere pedantic interest. […]

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