A hermit just happened to find a friend at a campfire and as he walks up he asks, βJohn, do you care if I join you this morning?β John gets up walks out into the woods and gets an arm full of limbs and chunks of wood and brings them back and puts them on the fire. All this time no words are exchanged between the two men. As John dropped the wood into the fire he says, βGood morning to you Alfredβ. Β With this he sets down l and again takes a sip of coffee.Β Finally looking up at Alfred and says you can join the fire if you can add wood on occasion, and you can have some coffee if you add to the pot.
Why do I tell this? Because it is our world what we read what we hear stays with us forever. The men in the story each lived by his own way. By that I say we each have things happening every second every day and we never think about them for the same reason John did not answer when spoken to. He lived his life slowly and as he wanted to. Obviously we live this way and not even think about it.
Right here in my own house I have enjoyment with that very fact. I have shown you the wall Plack I have pinned in the center of the kitchen a sign says if it is where it is let it stay where you found it. Please donβt change. Rare is the moment it is not being read while the hand is trying to adjust the picture. Β The very next thing when they see they can not move it is to look for something they can. No not in their open mind but they will invariably turn to the counter and start to adjust everything that is laying out of their way it should be. People do this and never think about it.
We are so many creatures of habit that it has no voice in any crowd. Climb into a car and if you do not try to adjust something, move something or try to adjust something I will eat a chunk of raw liver.Β I move thousands of miles living behind friends and family might have an opening in a thoughtful man. He must like to be alone. Β When ask what birthday parties I had remembered I had to stop and think. None I can remember fondly so thinking that over told me the reason I do that is to not remember that day. If I moved this far could the fact I enjoy just letting things be. Looking back, I can remember many mobile trailers I owned in my time must be the wheels and the fact I could get out of here attitude has created what I be.
Those that live in one place can give thousands of reasons why they are there. The neighbor next door spends all his waking moments wishing he could move somewhere else. If we cant move it and finally figure it out we do as the neighbor does and pace and freight over it. The only way you can change anything is first make it aware in your mind. Next do you want it changed. What I point out is obvious when brought to the mind. We are all use to it our way and those that do not get our input rather they want it or not. Because we will adjust it our way unconscious to our own thoughts while we do it.
My mind is a useful thing and I exercise it daily just to trying to get it use to doing something. Β Donβt you wish you could adjust those flaws?
A Messenger,
Verl K.