Does anyone else have the problem that I do when it comes to texting? Okay, I have a couple problems when it comes to texting. And maybe it's just because I'm always going at a million miles an hour, but when people text me, there's probably about a fifty-fifty chance that I will text them back. I am never the one to send the text that ends the conversation, I just text back until the text I receive doesn't absolutely require a response, then I discontinue the conversation. I always read texts that I receive, and I enjoy them, and remember them, and can talk to the person who sent them to me about them when I next see them, but unless it is some kind of transaction in which I must respond in order to get something done either for them or for me, I probably won't text back. I'm just not a conversational texter. However, I can always remember every person that I still intend on texting back. If I am busy for a long period of the day, and I receive several texts from different people, five of those people being those I feel I need to respond to, and the end of the day I can still clearly remember the five people I need to text. They always just linger in the back of my mind. So if you've texted me and clearly showed that you needed a response, know that I didn't completely forget about you...you're still there in the back of my mind, nagging at me to get me to text you back.
Tonight as I walked home from work, I suddenly felt the need to be very cautious as I approached the streetlight that so cleverly startled me last time around. It was already ablaze this time, so there really was no need for suspicion. It turns out, just as I approached it, it went out, and all was dark. I'm not sure if it was trying to trip me up again, or if it was afraid of what I might have been thinking to do to it...in either case, it succeeded in causing a suddenly inability to see where I was going. You win again, Alien Lamppost...but I will win this battle. Just you wait.
Dancing across Utah State campus with your headphones in is especially fun in the nighttime...because you have the whole place to yourself, and no one is watching (no one you can see, anyway).
I have been thinking a lot about vision lately...of all kinds. The amount of light one is exposed to, the greatness of the vision of the future one has, the attention one gives to visions in dreams, the splitting of an atom...wait, that's fission. Sorry about that.
You can just tell when a person has been exposed to a lot of physical light, and when someone has not. Those people that live in basements that don't have windows just tend to look scarier, one reason being they just aren't exposed to light. More than we realize, I think, our bodies act as receptacles of light. The more light we are exposed to, the more we absorb. That light, in turn, fills our faculties and our eyes and our smile, and slowly leaks back out of us into the world surrounding. You can see that. You can see those people that just seem to have more light around them. It's because they do! They've been around more light, and thus their bodies have had more to absorb!
I don't have much to say at this time about visions in dreams...because I don't think enough of my readers have enough faith in the things I would say. So I will simply say this: I firmly believe that every one of you has had a vision in a dream, whether you know it or not. And you have the capacity for more.
It is obvious that a clear and positive vision of the future is vital for success. We all know this. And yet there are still some of us who don't realize that sometimes we don't actually have that vision. If any person asked us if it was important to have a bright and expectant vision of what is ahead, we would say yes, but then if asked what our own vision of the future is...we don't really have a straight answer to give! I believe this is because this kind of vision is not one that we just absorb from the world around us. This kind of vision is one that actually originates in us and then is seen by the world we live in. There is physical vision, which we take in, and temporal vision, which we send out. We are creators of this kind of vision, and the world responds.
Far too many times I find that I am living below my privileges (three tries to spell that correctly this time) simply because my highest expectations were lower than was actually possible. I don't know that I really have a high enough vision about anything. I don't think we have the capacity to really visualize in its fullness all the goodness and opportunity that is out there. So, I've been raising my sights...making brighter the vision that comes from inside me...and it has been amazing the way the world has reacted! I am getting more accomplished each day, I am happier, and I feel more successful, because I am realizing new possibilities I hadn't considered before!
Think of the expectations you have in the future for any one aspect of your life. What is the very best that you realistically think that you can achieve or see in that part of your life? You got it? You thinking realistically, what is the best that can happen with your circumstances and your skill set? Good. Now realize that you're being stupid and raise that sight even higher. Decide that is the new reality. Now go for it. See what happens. It's very exciting.
I love the comments about light - I have seasonal affective disorder, so I really see on a day to day basis how much light affects me, especially when I don't succeed in doing my light therapy in the morning. The kind of light the sun gives off triggers receptors in the brain to produce serotonin, which is the chemical that lets you feel happy. I also frequently think about how spiritual light works the same way - we need to expose ourselves to spiritual light through prayer and scripture study and the like in order to feel happy spiritually. I type all of this on a cloudy, rainy day, but I feel content because I've had both physical and spiritual light therapy today. =)
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