Tonight's train of thought.....
It's funny to be on the other side of the tub of frozen cookie dough.
Many of my friends have been having tough times with various things. I've listened to their woes, given them advice, and cheered them on. Considering, I'm usually the one who is unloading his feelings to others it's nice that I can finally reciprocate with friendly advice.
The thing is sometimes I want to shake them and just tell them the answers they need but I know it doesn't work that way. They have to learn their own lessons. I frustrated everyone a million times with my stubbornness and complete intolerance for any suggestion that wasn't stuck in my head.
What does it take for a person to see the solution to a problem and actually work to make it better? In a perfect world it would be easy to diagnosis an issue and immediately begin actions to resolve it. But that would be too robotic and emotions are not switches that can be flipped or parts that can be replaced. Even those who think they can turn off their emotions, never resolve the problem. Instead they simply places them on a dusty shelf in the back of their mind. There is the expression, out of sight, out of mind but that doesn't mean then when you dust it off that the situation will be any better.
We are all very complicated in our ways. Our emotions are like bodies of water and life is the weather. If it storms, we take a beating and on the other hand if the sun shines we glisten. Some people are better at planning ahead and reacting to the changing tides while others go sailing without reading the morning weather reports.
At the same time, wouldn't it be nice to be that footloose and fancy free? You just have to be ready for the consequences as much as the rewards. At the end of the day, I really believe that if you at least try your best and attempt to go after what you want there is no harm in failing - for it is those that never take the boat out into the water, end up being stuck on the shore watching everyone else live their lives.
Many of my friends have been having tough times with various things. I've listened to their woes, given them advice, and cheered them on. Considering, I'm usually the one who is unloading his feelings to others it's nice that I can finally reciprocate with friendly advice.
The thing is sometimes I want to shake them and just tell them the answers they need but I know it doesn't work that way. They have to learn their own lessons. I frustrated everyone a million times with my stubbornness and complete intolerance for any suggestion that wasn't stuck in my head.
What does it take for a person to see the solution to a problem and actually work to make it better? In a perfect world it would be easy to diagnosis an issue and immediately begin actions to resolve it. But that would be too robotic and emotions are not switches that can be flipped or parts that can be replaced. Even those who think they can turn off their emotions, never resolve the problem. Instead they simply places them on a dusty shelf in the back of their mind. There is the expression, out of sight, out of mind but that doesn't mean then when you dust it off that the situation will be any better.
We are all very complicated in our ways. Our emotions are like bodies of water and life is the weather. If it storms, we take a beating and on the other hand if the sun shines we glisten. Some people are better at planning ahead and reacting to the changing tides while others go sailing without reading the morning weather reports.
At the same time, wouldn't it be nice to be that footloose and fancy free? You just have to be ready for the consequences as much as the rewards. At the end of the day, I really believe that if you at least try your best and attempt to go after what you want there is no harm in failing - for it is those that never take the boat out into the water, end up being stuck on the shore watching everyone else live their lives.