Frightening Ideas

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.".... John Cage

The deepest ruts are always constructed of old petrified notions we are just too bull-headed or frightened to abandon. A mind caught up in how things have always been done, never achieves an awareness of just how wonderful change can be, or how empowering. Doing things just a bit differently makes all the difference in the oddest fashion. A snowball rolling downhill can cause an avalanche. And humans are more powerful than any snowball. It must be the rolling that makes all the difference.

Ruts are predictably flat and over crowded. No room there for even a half-hearted tumble, let alone a decent roll. Final freedom demands firm alterations of all programmed movements. Most times we are the ones holding ourselves rutward. Go find a hill. Lean forward and free-fall into life. Why not????

For many years I was more fearful of things staying the same than I ever was of alterations to the status quo.
Hell, nobody with half a brain wants things to stay horrid when just a few steps forward will change everything. I stepped forward and the momentum has carried me to the place I rest in nowadays. The thought of the past being my future is not something that occurs to me anymore.

Why should I bother with worry over what could never happen in a million years? Why would I waste any time fretting over the impossible? I will just continue to lean forward and allow life to move me on to better and better tomorrows until joy is where I abide twenty-four, seven. And I can say with confidence that I am very near my dreamed of destination. All that is left is the settling in that comes naturally to every relocation. I just need my stuff, the rest is already here.

That seems the wisest plan. I could have gone off course and missed my mark altogether, but I thank God that was not my fate. I took a few detours that I would not repeat if I could go back, but none of them were the mistakes made by a rut-dweller.

Tumble on snowballs. See you at the bottom of the hill. And as always.... think about it.... let it ride.... then YOU decide!!!!