Thursday, 17 October 2013

What are you supposed to do about your feelings? It is not as if you can just turn them on and off at will. Surely, you have to acknowledge them and let them influence your choices. And what about someone else's feelings? To what extent are you responsible for those? Now (you could tell we were heading this way, couldn't you?) what about the tricky territory where your feelings conflict with someone else's? This week, you will yet manage to successfully negotiate a safe path through this emotional jungle. 
 I knew so much about the plot of our real life movie, that I felt so sure I must have seen it as a ordinary movie in theater. Then I realised, that I'd only ever read about it or heard other people talking. Life is like that for all of us to some extent. There are some experiences that we have never actually had but we have somehow been close to them. We have given them thought and made them subject to conjecture. I really enjoy surprising discovery.
Have you ever driven a car in which the Satnav has been set? The driver, meanwhile, has decided to take a detour or even to travel somewhere else entirely. But the machine is still switched on. It continues to issue instructions in that relentlessly authoritative voice. But it doesn't know the destination. It is now, at best, an irritating distraction. Either it needs to be switched off or reprogrammed. Might there be something analogous to this in your situation? Where do you really want to go?Decide!
One happy smiling person can lighten the mood of a room containing hundreds of people. Someone bursting noisily into tears can have a similarly powerful and somewhat more dampening effect. We all have the ability to exert a surprisingly large amount of influence over the atmosphere in our environment. The events that confirm your ability to turn sadness to happiness - or vice versa. Acknowledge this power, use it wisely, exploit it positively. It will yet prove to be the key to everything else that you need. 

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