Ah ha moments...

So, as bad as things have been going lately in so many areas of my life, I've grown rather superstitious. On any given day, I can be caught flinging spilled salt (probably over the wrong shoulder), or going out of my way to not walk under ladders, have black cats cross my path (there's one in across the street, it's not as easy as you might imagine), and even a few that I've developed myself.

See, I have discovered that there is a direct correlation with whether I win or lose at the medium difficulty spider solitaire and the kind of day I'm going to have. In addition, how low a score I achieve determines how good the day will be. (My current record is 109 moves. It was a REALLY good day.) Yeah. I'm a little quirky.

So, those of you who know me won't find it at all surprising that I spent one evening scarfing down fortune cookies in the hopes that I would get a fortune about being thin and beautiful. At some point, okay, it was as I broke open my third cookie, I realized that I'm scarfing down cookies and hoping to be thin and beautiful. I was about to do a mental head slap when I read the fortune.

 "Your mentality is alert, practical, and analytical."

Really? Yeah. Well, the fortune was true. I stopped after that cookie. Okay...it's because I ran out, not because I have such great self-control. Regardless, I stopped and didn't go after anything else.

 And I love these moments. Moments that make me stop and go 'ah ha.' I think too often people aren't introspective enough, they float through life without thinking, without leaving their mark, without bettering the world or themselves. I can't imagine living like that and I strive to impress upon my children the importance of thinking.  I give advice like:
  • Don't do anything you have to lie about.
  • Don't do anything you wouldn't want everyone know about.
  • Live like I'm always watching.
So far, so good. They're not complete delinquents. In fact, most people really like them. I like them. And that's just as important as being loved.

Have your quirks and superstitions, but most importantly take time to think about your life.

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Conscious person Marina Marina

I great friend of mine is rally superstitious. He is a collector of superstitions I would say. We always made fun of him. But sometimes it is really annoying. We were roomates and he never was throwing away a trash basket in the evening ( it is a bad sign) and in the morning he rushed to work and of course forget to throw away the trash. When he heard that this year it is better not to eat beef, as it is the Bull year according to the horoscope, he just quited it beef. Nobody was surprised. I asked him: Wjhat about the Rat Year? You are going to quit eat rats? ))) I believe it is all about human mind. We make it believe in this superstitions. If the black cat crosses the street we start thinking about bad day or misfortunes and these thought attract these misfortunes to our life. Just release your mind and clean it al the supertitions. Don't think about them and your life will get much easier.

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