Place of Mind

Need a perfect example of Place of Mind?  Here it is:
When I read that chocolate was bad for you... I stopped reading!


After a much needed visit over a nice glass of wine with my dear friend and neighbor, Martha, she has reminded me of a few things.  One, that you can't let your deep-hearted dreams frighten you.  If you enjoy something and you want to spend your life doing it, then there's no "rule book" that says you can't!  You can find a way to make it work, you just have to put it into action.  She's right.  If you don't have faith in those dreams, in yourself, then you just throw them in the back of your mind to gather dust.  Oh you will get back to those ideas once in a blue moon, to have a look and remember when.  But all in all, they end up in the same card file as Fairy Tales, don't they?  So, let me stand up and introduce myself to the group; I am also a dreamer and I promise to put things into action.  Maybe in baby steps but the point is, steps of some sort.  For me it will be a journal possibly, of the ideas floating around in my brain.  Once on paper, hopefully I can see a pattern. 

The second thing; how we each have different perspectives on things.  It's pretty funny really.  Well okay so it's not always funny ha-ha.  But your Place-of-Mind, as I call it, can take you in any direction.  It's all in where you focus your time and energy and just on how you look at things overall.  Have negativity and feed negativity then look who wants to come hang around you?  The Negatives!  So lets decide on which hungry dog we want to feed.  My vote is for the happy go-lucky dog that bumbles around slobbering for my attention.  So this point also applies to the previous point about dreams!  Maybe it's not rocket science but I'm trying to feed the positive.

Life provides so many choices, many of which will fit the general population but will not fit all, not mine, not yours.  But guess what?  That's perfectly fine!  No shame and no super-analytical therapy session required.  If anyone comes at you in cloak with that heavy Rule Book... the one with the spine that cracks when they open it, the one that's musky and full of negative words and deadlines, the one that beats the gavel at you... then I say you slam it shut and give it back.