I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on
[Gorillaz]
Today, my mind feels like a rundown, abandoned building where thoughts are a jumble of trash left throughout the years by unwelcome visitors. I quite like the feeling in a strange kind of way as it gives me some different insights into the way it works and what it is capable of as I am still able to process well enough to pay attention to how it moves.
I wonder if we could investigate and dissect our thoughts cleanly and place them into piles of what is ours and what is someone else's we have taken aboard, how balanced would the piles be? I would suggest that much more of our thinking is that of others than we would care to ever admit. We are social animals with a long road to self-sufficiency and we rely heavily on others for years as they care for and protect us. It is natural that we will learn much of our patterns from them.
We rarely think about and may never investigate how deep the thoughts of others run through us to become our behaviours. And, once we have accepted our thinking as our own, we become largely blind to all of the trash and baggage we carry as we are not the ones who placed it there but, we have accepted it as normal.
How much can a mind change, how much can the behaviours of a person? Is it possible to shift who we thought we were into something completely different? In my opinion yes. Is it easy? Unlikely but who knows. I have seen many people change there entire demeanor through experiences they have had yet, nearly all of them have been negative changes based on extreme events. It isn't important that they changed negatively, but it is important that they were able to change at all as it indicates possibility.
Through different chemical compounds, we are able to change the way the mind, and therefore we, behave. A simple drink or two is indicative of this possibility. For me though, I am interested in being able to clean out the trash, tidy up the mind, empty out the suitcases that have been packed away in the attic filled with a whole lot of what I don't need and think freely. Create a space that is open to the new without having the useless pieces of the past filling the corners.
Perhaps going forward from that point, I can rebalance the thought scales and think more as me and less of what I have been trained to be.
Taraz
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People's thoughts and opinions will always run through our minds. People will always give their opinions, they are entitled to it. It is our job to filter out what is not important or beneficial to our wellbeing.
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Look at the comments below yours... I don't want to even let them enter for consideration :D
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Helo @tarazkp, like you rightly said, it is very possible for the thoughts of others to change our wellbeing or perception about a thing or even change us entirely. Sometimes I seem to act like I don't care about what people think and try telling myself that what I think k is what matters most, but I feel caring about the opinions of others sometimes just comes up Natural in some people , example me.
Dunno if there are people who have the ability to just wave the thoughts of others off and move on and if there really are, then they are blessed to have that ability coz I battle with this inability everyday and it kills me softly.
You would wake on on the right side of the bed ,only for someone to say just a word to you and it spoils your entire day. Wish I could just sieve it off, pick up just the good thoughts and opinions I want and move on.
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I find the trick is not to identify with it rather than not listen to them. There might be some valuable information in the negative so ignoring it and only focusing on the positive gives a very narrow view.It can be hard at times of course but, it is possible to do , at least from my experience.
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Hmmmm...then you must be luck it ita possible for you to do. For me ,I'd rather not hear them at all coz it will spoil not just my mood but my whole day. I am that emotional ....lolz
But on the contrary, you made a valid point here. Listening to the negative as well gives you a broader view which is good but it takes a heart if stone to listen to the negative, take the lessons and just move on without letting it bring him or his emotions down.
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This reply has resonated with me even more than your post itself.
"The trick is not to identify with it rather than not listen to them."
Valuable information does often lie there, even if so very painful at times to fully acknowledge. It is a hard process, sifting through a lifetime of this sort of acquired information, especially whatever of it may have been acquired from negative experiences.
I love your post, and particularly because this has been a thought pattern of my own recently, and you just put it into words (and pictures) better than, maybe, I could have myself.
It's nice to hear the encouragement that change is possible. Even if you know in your heart that it is...it's still nice to hear someone else say that - that they believe it too. That I know it's not just my own foolish self wishing against a permanently stuck inherited reality that I cannot change, that's so helpful. Thank you!
--Please contribute more posts like this - I'm all eyes, yet still so very human...I know; I need this kind of reading. I think we all likely do.)--
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Like you said, it's possible but unlikely without a extreme situation changing your perception. Thisbos what happened to me but not negatively. Instead I used as it as a positive to aid others and help them find the positive too.
I also found your thoughts on taking others opinions and making them our own facts very interesting as it's not something I really thought about mich but it would definitely happen and regularly. Splitting the opinions between your true facts and the facts of others wpuld not be an easy task.
I hope your mind finds its way to fully charged again soon.
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I like your perspective on this. I think I share it a good bit, from experience. It takes that experience to get you there. Whatever that happening may be. Could be one very poignant experience, even painful one, or it could be many. Whatever it was, it got you there, where you realized you had somehow acquired a more enlightened angle on these things, a place from which you could help others. What a great way to see it, and what a great thing to do!
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One other thing, I went to find something you have written and noticed that you haven't done an intro post yet? Would be good to know more about you so followers can decide why they are following you. resteeming generally won't get you a big following. Let me know when its up so I can check it out. :-)
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Yeah, I know. I'm having a growing number of people ask me "hey, where's your intro post?" The answer is "I'm thinking on it". The answer also is that I've spent about the last hour our so writing...that's what's been keeping me busy. There's so much on here to prompt writing on so many subjects. I'm honestly not quite sure where to start, about myself or anything, regarding posts. But when I figure that out, and I hope it will be soon, I'll try my best to make it something good, and hopefully a worthwhile read! Thank you for asking, though. Soon, the answer is soon.
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Well link it here when you do it so I can find it and read it :-)
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Will do. :)
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Thank you. We deal with what we have been dealt and I hope I'm using my time to the best of its possibilities. 😊
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Taraz! -- Major points for two things:
As for the points you made, I think that's the price you pay as a creative individual. I think the fact that you write your thoughts mitigates the mental clutter you might face.
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'I think the fact that you write your thoughts mitigates the mental clutter you might face.'
Major points for this alone, to you.
I know exactly how that works, and I take advantage of it on the regular. Might be the 'price you pay' as a creative individual, but it can really come out as 'your reward' in the end result.
My thoughts on the matter.
(Really nice blog, btw. One of my favorites followed so far.)
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Much obliged, it's kind of a been there, done that -- type of deal.
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Definitely understand that.
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excellent and great publication. regards
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great publication quite entertaining and creative
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nice post
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