KNOWING
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
-James Allen
I do not like what I have seen of my reaction to my circumstances. Though I do very much appreciate that quote, as it is a very simple truth, succinctly stated.
There was something I wanted to post about, but I wanted to post about my ignorance, for a moment. I have a tendency to not know things...what to say, how to feel, what to do with my life- I'm closing in on 30 and I still have no career plan of any sort...well, I just turned 26, but you get what I mean.
So I'm making an effort to stop thinking to myself that I don't know. It's a very simple affirmation: I DO know. Not knowing, as it relates to emotional things, has been an excuse for me (and I would assume some others) to not think about it, since I'm able to accept that I don't know. It is, after all, a reasonable thing to not know something.
This thinking has begun its cessation of being acceptable. When I announce to myself that I DO know something, it sets my brain working to find the answer. Because I think we very often announce that we don't know something when we do actually have thoughts about it, even if they are not as simple as 2+2 = 4.
The mind is sorta like that, I think, for some people more than others: momentum is a very important thing, as the mind can function as a perpetual motion machine. Just as negative thoughts can lead to a negative outlook, when you tell yourself or say aloud that you don't know, you can convince yourself of it.
You don't always really think what you think, in other words. Or, what you think you think isn't really what you think.
These are very old ideas, but they're new to me.
Ah, the other thing I wanted to post about was my insane dream that I had a few nights ago, one of the many that I have. This one was particularly odd, though, more on that later. Also more on James Allen, the author of the quote at the top of this post. Hell, I'll paste it down here, too:
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
-James Allen
I do not like what I have seen of my reaction to my circumstances. Though I do very much appreciate that quote, as it is a very simple truth, succinctly stated.
There was something I wanted to post about, but I wanted to post about my ignorance, for a moment. I have a tendency to not know things...what to say, how to feel, what to do with my life- I'm closing in on 30 and I still have no career plan of any sort...well, I just turned 26, but you get what I mean.
So I'm making an effort to stop thinking to myself that I don't know. It's a very simple affirmation: I DO know. Not knowing, as it relates to emotional things, has been an excuse for me (and I would assume some others) to not think about it, since I'm able to accept that I don't know. It is, after all, a reasonable thing to not know something.
This thinking has begun its cessation of being acceptable. When I announce to myself that I DO know something, it sets my brain working to find the answer. Because I think we very often announce that we don't know something when we do actually have thoughts about it, even if they are not as simple as 2+2 = 4.
The mind is sorta like that, I think, for some people more than others: momentum is a very important thing, as the mind can function as a perpetual motion machine. Just as negative thoughts can lead to a negative outlook, when you tell yourself or say aloud that you don't know, you can convince yourself of it.
You don't always really think what you think, in other words. Or, what you think you think isn't really what you think.
These are very old ideas, but they're new to me.
Ah, the other thing I wanted to post about was my insane dream that I had a few nights ago, one of the many that I have. This one was particularly odd, though, more on that later. Also more on James Allen, the author of the quote at the top of this post. Hell, I'll paste it down here, too:
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.