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Today's Blog Post
Bad Thoughts - Let em go! – Let em go!
“Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future.”
These words continue to stand up and shout at me – in fact all day yesterday it happened again and again.
Then I added more thoughts by reading further…
“Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past events or mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time.”
Nope, I don’t want to experience them again. They were not good at the time and they certainly are not good the second or third or the Gazllionth Time either.
In our home we have some leftovers after some meals. With three people eating there always seems to be enough for four… leaving at least a little for me to savour the next day or so.
But if there is too much leftover the thrill of eating the same thing over and over and over again loses it appeal.
What has even less appeal is the fact that you might decide to eat it say three months from now… or one year from now. Yuk!
Thankfully Food cannot be kept that long. It goes bad a long time before that.
Have you noticed that Memories last longer than food? Good ones seem to not be as easy as bad ones when bringing them back. The good ones haven’t disappeared they just get used less than the bad ones.
Bad memories tend to get play time on “My Mind’s Radio Station” – “Station MMRS” more often. The same old same old gets the same old play time.
It is time to change the station and move on.
For the fun of it in my garage last week I put a CD in my CD Player and punched the Play Button. Amazing… all my old music of long ago was on that CD. I loved it.
I came to a particular song that has an amazing rhythm to it. So I picked up the remote and punched “Repeat”. Insane as it was I was alone and loved that track over and over and over again. In fact I loved it for THREE hours… the same song, rhythm, beat, noise, interruptions, over and over again.
Too much of a Good Thing is not so good after THREE hours. In fact I have not played it again. A little too much of it… even for me.
Now if it is something that I don’t like I try to turn it off before even the first few bars are played.
Why is it then that I replay stupidity for myself to hear again and again… the same old faults, the same old mistakes, the same old foolishness from the past?
Yep – I do it all too often. I dredge up the stupid stuff to savour in those glum modes that I can sink into. In fact I wasn’t even having a glum mode until that stupid thought came back again… then it moved in like a bad weather front.
I kind of snapped out of it when my wife asked me a question… I snapped back some stupid answer… that came from a stupid brain that was entertaining stupid thoughts from the past.
I said I was sorry… but the stupid thought still was resting in my brain like a loud crow in our tree.
I have found that if a Crow sits there long enough he or she will make a mess on my car.
That is kind of what happens with those old and very stupid thoughts from long ago.
Let em go! – Let em go!
Back to my refrigerator thought… and the bad food in there. Throw out the bad stuff. It stinks and may corrupt all the good stuff stored there.
If I buy more good stuff and put it in the refrigerator… something old will have to go… because the new stuff is that much fresher and better. So… I throw out the bad stuff.
In my mind it is the same. I need to place more good stuff in my mind to shove out that OLD CRAP.
Each morning I have sat and simply thought about the fun stuff that my grand kids have done with me. I have a whole bunch of photos that I have snapped of them with me and grandma. Some go back at least 9 years when I got my first digital camera.
Looking over the photos of the kids just kind of changes the day.
I can go back to the Old Albums… but some contain old stuff… so I move ahead.
Sitting and thinking of the good stuff that has happened this week alone – wipes out the old stuff that tries to creep back.
Today is going to be a good day… I just know it. I have thought about some amazing things that have happened over this past week. And the shelves of my Thought Storage are now filled with Good Stuff. I had to throw out some Old Stuff… not only does it look better it even smells better in there!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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POST SCRIPT... look at the M&Ms up top again more closely... the bad Thoughts are Mixed with the Good Ones
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