I often get lost in my mind nowadays, and it’s hard to say why. My head is filled with different strange thoughts that don’t actually lead anywhere. It doesn’t really bother me though, it’s nice to escape the reality and go to beautiful places and strange thoughts sometimes.
My current thought is this: Have I become boring? I had a dream last night that I was sitting on a chair thinking about my life. This was so weird; who has a dream about thinking? When I woke up this morning I was trying to figure out whether I actually dreamed or whether I woke up in the middle of the night to think. That was my dream/thought, am I boring? Am I making a difference in the world? Does what I do really matter? Is my job important? What would happen if I weren’t around, would the world fall apart? I guess not. Perhaps if I were a Heart Surgeon or a best selling author I would surely be missed, wouldn’t I? No, probably not, the world has survived for thousands of years without them. So at the end of the day, do any of us matter? Yes I think we do. Not in a world changing way but we all matter to someone or something.
My thinking is totally screwed up, isn’t it? I feel much better now though, since I’ve come to the conclusion that we are all working towards something that will not change the world in general but could change some things in particular.
Another thought I often have is about falling, not actually falling, eina, but failing at being a person. I refuse to fall down, and if I do fall down I refuse to stay down! The only thing that can really get a person down is stress! So I always read my Ten Commandments for Stress.
1. Thou shall not worry, for worry is an unproductive human activity.
2. Thou shall not fear, for most of the things we fear never happen.
3. Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them, for it is extremely to cross a non-existent bridge.
4. Thou shall face each problem as it comes, one at a time.
5. Thou shall not take problems to bed with you, for they make poor bedfellows.
6. Thou shall not borrow other people’s problems; they belong not to you.
7. Thou shall not relive yesterday, good or bad, it is forever gone. Concentrate on what is happening in your life at the moment and be happy now!
8. Thou shall be a good listener, for it is good to take advice from those who are wiser than you are.
9. Thou shall not allow negative thoughts to enter thy head; this only interferes with the positive.
10. Thou shall count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones, for a lot of small blessings eventually add up to a big one.
One final thought this one on my grandson. Tomorrow is little Tarzan’s 8th birthday and he is definitely one of my big blessings! He was born with the gift of making people laugh, and I love his mischief because I can sometimes resist temptation, but I can never resist mischief. There has never been a day that I have not loved him or a day that I have not been proud of him. Nobody else is like Tarzan he’s unique. How lucky I am that he is my grandson!
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