Visualization

Here's the problem I have with visualization

Do I believe it works?

Absolutely

Do I do it?

Can I be a hypocrite and say no*?

Do I think it could be useful?

Sure

Absolutely

No doubt about it at all

But

Like all things

It should be used sparingly and judiciously

No?

I'm grateful to have a way to find my keys

I'm grateful to be able to manage my migraines

Do I need to visualize a trip to Hawaii?

Or

Manifest a million dollars?

Or a new husband?

Um 

No

I really don't

Because I firmly believe

That all paths have their muck in the road

It's inevitable really; because

It's all just part of the human experience

So do I want to spend time and 

Mental resources

Manifesting my every whimsical desire

Me personally; no

I prefer to let fate dictate for me

Where it wants me to go

Where it needs me

Because aren't there always things in play

One is not privy to

The action behind the scenes

I just think that life has a way of surprising you beyond your wildest dreams

When you let it

(When you get out of your own way)

And also I hate to think

That there is even a small possibility

That someone else may have suffered

By consequence of me trying to manipulate/dictate fate in my favor

I'm just a purist at heart I guess

I believe in miracles beyond our capabilities of understanding

That the universe has an abundance

of absolutely anything one could possibly desire

If we could only get out of our ways with our selfishness

Our stress

Our worries

Our fears

And hate

Then we could have that

Easily

Have our every dream come true

Because it's there for us

We don't have to "take it"

It's there in spades for everyone

Always

If we could truly grasp that

That the life we have been led to persue

Through hoarding

Coveting

Pillaging

Raping

Is ass backwards

That it is only

When we put our hearts first

And give as absolutely much as we can

At every single moment

That the world open up

Into the true glory of living

I simply don't see how that is hard to understand

Maybe hard to implement consistently (I suppose....at first?)

But hard to grasp?  Maybe I guess.

I still haven't been able to figure out a humane way to handle fruit flies and they're driving me nutso. So who's to say? Lol

*would you consider praying visualization. I don't know. I pray constantly; for strangers as well as my own family and myself. Is it wrong?  I have to think about that one. 

All I know

is that I know nothing at all-  Plato

And boy ain't that the truth

I don't know what tomorrow holds

Or even the next second

I do perhaps ascertain fairly well that all things

Have good and bad built into them

As do all people

It's the human condition after all

To be plummeted into these shackles we call bodies

To experience firsthand the grand game

of life on earth

I believe....truly

That I am no better

And also no worse than any human walking this earth

That while I may have my failings over any particular one

I have just as many triumphs as well

But I'm not keeping score

That's an even worse job than passing judgement.

Those two things just aren't for me

(I'm trying to get out of those beastly habits) &

I honestly can't say that given the same circumstances in life

I could not sit where that person sits today

Be they bank robber or media mogul alike

Be they serial killer or volunteer of the year

I simply can't say

That given the same choices/opportunities

Whether I could have done the same or

I could have improved upon them

Maybe I wouldn't have

Maybe I would have been even worse

I can't attest to any life but my own

And even then

The beliefs I hold dear to my heart now

Are subject to change

I can't say they wouldn't be

I can't hold steadfast to anything in this life

Besides faith, love and hope

So wherever that leads me

That is where I shall go

Whatever that leads me to believe

That is what I shall do

Life directs you most assuredly

In the direction you are truly meant to be

If you just listen with your heart

So in that sense maybe I do know something

But to a lot of people this information

may be so much more valueless

Than those scraps of paper they carry in their wallets

and wave around at each other.