A Clear State of Mind (Day #14 January 26, 2013)

Whenever there is something we really really want in/out of life, I feel as though we would do anything to get it! We will push our bodies through extreme strengths and weaknesses to do so, we will put our minds through a tumble of psychological trips to find an answer we seek or find a truth that is undiscovered...but just maybe....just maybe...that truth, answer, goal, objective or the plain and simple 'THING' we are looking for is literally right in front of us the entire time. Has anyone else ever had this happen to them? I know we all have similar occurrences when we are looking for a piece of our laundry and can't find a certain shirt or sock, and then all of a sudden you lift something up the next day and it was right in front of you. But because it was so easy to see our minds give us a false sense of belief and the item is right in front of our eyes. Or how about when you're talking on your phone and you are rushing to get out of the house and you keep saying "where is my phone?" Same thing!! Just with slightly different variables involved. Another aspect to this for a lot of people is finding the right person/companion. We all know it or they find you, you don't find them. Just as I was completely unaware of relationships and on my own things, I met with Lyly to have coffee and catch up. It was game over from that day forth and have never loved something or someone so much in my life. Nor will I.

I am in a place of my life that is full of discovering new things, as we all are discovering new things, but how many of us can say that about ourselves? Do we take the time to take that small step back and look around at our lives and ourselves to see what is really going on? I am trying more and more to learn about myself and the people who are engaged within my life. You look to see the people you hang out with and associate yourself with, because whether we like it or not it says a lot about the person you are and choose to be. I myself have stopped hanging out with a lot of people I used to associate myself with because I have moved passed that area of my life and most of them are still there. Not to say it's a bad thing to be there, but I personally decided to move on to something new with a clear state of mind. As I made my transition, not everything was as clear as I hoped for it to be. Most things, as I spoke of before, were right in front of me when I seemed to be looking everywhere but there. 

We must continue to grow and develop ourselves as individuals in the world. Michel Foucault says that their is no such thing as the individual, because we are shaped, molded and formed from society itself. It creates us into the people we are. Everyone who thinks otherwise is dead wrong, he says. But, if you actually think about it, he is right (to a degree). Our influences to be a certain way are what, and from where? Television, magazines, newspapers etc... We are individually founded and driven by the things in society such as the ways we dress (from a rock star), or a suit and a tie, a rapper, a skier and on and on and on. These people who push their outfits and ways of thinking towards society also are influenced by those in fashion at the top of the tree who says "this is what is going to be cool and hip next." It is an endless circle of a top few persons who dictate the way we are in society. Our ways of thinking come from books, teachers, parents, friends and family and they all got it from somewhere, so Foucault's point is that not one person can be an individual in our world because society actually dictates and promotes who and how we are.

With this being said, I encourage everyone to find themselves through themselves. Discover something new about your life and in general. Find what lurks behind your consciousness and is demanding to be set free. Push for greater heights through ones own self! Refuse to let ANYONE discourage you, no matter how much they mean to you, influence you or partake in your life! Get it!! And Stick with it!!!!