The Weeds

Depressing thoughts are like weeds, they crop up everywhere and can thrive in any situation. I try to keep positive thoughts nearby to counter act the bad ones. For instance, I know you have heard the phrase, "All good things must come to an end". Everytime I see or hear that phrase I remind myself that all bad things must also come to an end.

Anytime I think or hear the adage, "Everything happens for a reason" it is usually being applied to something bad. It's rare that you would say "everything happens for a reason" if you win the lottery, you say yippee! But if you lost the winning lottery ticket, all of the sudden, you lost it for some reason that must be noble, there is a higher purpose for someone else winning and not you. I'm gonna have to call bullshit here (eloquent phrasing escapes me).

My point being that we all have ways of soothing our ills. Whether it is with the thought that everything happens for a reason or we keep some other handy phrase in our head to act as salve to life's disappointments.

There is a point where even the most positive of thinkers succumbs to the negative. This is our true test. It is as if we are looking into an abyss(look up this word). There is no end to despair, the weeds have sprouted in our positive thinking.

This morning at 3:00 a.m. I woke from a deep sleep because of the weeds. I need some weed killer and a lot of salve.