Why are there times when our lives turn into chaos? We forget too often that our desires determine reality, says blogger Janet Bertholus. It is contradictions in desires that create contradictions in what ultimately surrounds us. What is the way out? Make a new habit – to think.
Conflicting messages. Confusing signals. Dreams in conflict with each other. Two completely different intentions that need to be implemented immediately and simultaneously. I do like this. Often.
I bring home delicacies, a bottle of good wine, and bake a cheesecake when I’m on a diet.
Being among a noisy cheerful crowd, I dream of being alone, and vice versa.
I look at beautiful houses and look for design ideas on the Internet when I know for sure that I need to save money.
I set the bar high for myself, I swing at the moon, and then I hide and tremble with fear under the bed.
I want to sleep, eat, write, win an Academy Award for best screenplay, talk to my sister on the phone, all in the same night.
It seems to me that while standing in line to get here in this world, I was busy (most likely looking for keys or lipstick in my purse), because I appeared without any luggage, did not take with me any information about what might happen here not only good.
Because all I know is that good always wins.
I have always seen life only from this side and was ready for adventure and thousands of opportunities. And when something goes wrong, every time for me it’s just … a surprise.
The next time you find yourself at a crossroads and it’s time to make a decision, ask yourself, “What do I really want?”
I send my conflicting messages to the world and then I wonder why I get back… nonsense. But who among us doesn’t?
All this flowing streams of pure nonsense eventually led to the fact that I had a new habit – to reason. Because my life started to turn into a mess. And I can’t function properly, knee-deep in the infinite, “What the hell is going on?”
When I can’t find ends in the midst of the storm my life suddenly becomes I tell myself “stop” and ask myself: “What were my intentions? What did I want?
And then I inevitably realize in retrospect (always in retrospect!) that my intentions were contradictory. What I wanted, as Dave Barry says1, take a sedative and laxative at the same time and then go to sleep.
So the next time you find yourself at a crossroads and it’s time to make a decision, ask yourself, “What do I want?”
Am I sleepy or do I still need to take another pill?
And it turns out that, as Theodore Roosevelt said,if you had such an opportunity: to give a good kick to the person who is to blame for most of your troubles, then you would not be able to sit down for a month».
1 Dave Burry is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
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Janet Bertolus is a blogger who writes for many publications. For details, see her .