You laugh but that shit works

Write it down. 

Everything.

Few things make me feel lighter than when I dump my brain on the page. I’ve been doing this since high school after a camp counselor recommended the practice to me. It’s so helpful. 

The page listens. The page doesn’t judge. You can be your honest, ugly, petty, vulnerable self with the page. 

And then you can move on. Close the journal. Leave it there. Never read what you wrote. Never think about it again. 

There’s another magical thing about the page.  

Writing down goals, hopes, dreams puts them into motion.

Putting these things on paper is a powerful act of focus. It tells your subconscious mind and also alerts the Universe of where to take action. 

Vision boards work like this, too. 

I was talking to a friend the other day who is wanting to make some changes in his life. 

“Make a vision board,” I said.

He laughed.

You laugh but that shit works.

Proverb: Imagination is everything.

Imagination is Everything, collage with found paper, 2020

Opinions are easy

Open-mindedness is hard. 

Yesterday I was asked my opinion on the school my daughter goes to. The person asking is considering sending his kid there, too. 

I found myself answering every question he asked with the caveat, “it depends.” 

Because it does. On so many things. 

Things far less consequential than my personal experience and opinion of the school.

Later I came across this quote: 

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinion on many things. 

When I was young, I used to follow up opinion statements with, “but that’s my opinion, not yours.” My parents tease me about it to this day. As a little girl with a lot of opinions, I seemed to have also wanted to make it very clear that these opinions were indeed not fact or anything to be taken too seriously. 

It seems I wanted to leave room for other people’s opinions.

Even a concept as seemingly agreed upon as love, has so many opinions surrounding it. Opinions about what it is, what it looks like. 

Proverb: Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.