What Are You
Thinking?
“He who wanders in another person’s mind is lost!”
I have spent my life wondering what other people think
about me, definitely to the detriment of my life. The above quotation by an
anonymous author defines my sentiments exactly. I can barely know what I’m
thinking most of the time, let alone, try to figure out what someone else is
thinking.
I have this man who snubs me every time he sees me. I have
absolutely no idea why he does this. I have never, to my recollection, done
anything that would cause this person to hate me or dislike me. On the
contrary, as usual, I have probably done every thing possible for him to like
me. Because, you know, I have been programmed that way. If someone doesn’t like
me, I work, like hell, to try to MAKE him/her like me.
Listen, I get it! This is an annoying habit. In the past 3
years I have tried my best to let other people’s opinions about me go away. I
have let go of friends who have held on because of my nice inquiries about
their health and love life. I have let go of friendships who take and never
give back. I have dropped away from trying to attract people who simply don’t
want to attach in anyway.
The old me, before I read Amir Levine’s “Attached.”, would
have done every thing he could to get any person, especially one who doesn’t
like me, to like me. I would have stepped passed every personal boundary to
care about what someone else was thinking about me.
This kind of thinking and life is like playing God. It’s
exhausting. As I have known for a very long time, I have the best friends a man
would possible want. I could call a number of people in the middle of the night
and any one of them would come to my rescue. However, other people in my life
have decided that my personality didn’t jive with theirs or they moved away and
didn’t want to stay in touch. I get that. I have had the same thing happen.
Also, when you get into a new intimate relationship, life
changes. You don’t have as much time to hang out with single people as you had
in the past. I try to accommodate by going to lunch, but some of my single
friends just simply write me off when I’m in a new relationship. I can hear
them saying, “I’ll get back to him in a year when he starts to get bored.” As I
certainly hope that isn’t true for my relationship, I can understand that
sentiment as well.
The truth, though, we can’t know what anyone else is
thinking about us. And more importantly, what they think about us just simply
isn’t our business. Too many people talk shit about other and when we
listen to that stuff, we get the impression that someone probably is also
talking about us. We even get more paranoid when we are the instigators for
such talk.
My theory about this is that, if you keep your focus on
your own mind and self inquiry about your instincts and feelings, you won’t
have time for petty crap about others. I know I must sound a bit jaded on the
subject, as I have used language I don’t generally use in a blog. But, I’m
doing it to make a point.
Other people are not your business. You are your business. Make it a point to be the best person you
can be. Let God and Spirit be your only judge. Let your heart lead you to peace
in this way, and you won’t be concerned with what others think. You will act
and love from an authentic place of wisdom. Nothing is better than that.
Below is information that I will be sharing for about a
month, as not every person on my list reads the blog every day. If you have
already read it, just skip over it. Thanks for understanding.
A
Year to CLEAR Challenge:
(Please Know: You Can Join Us At Any Point in the Year
Challenge.)
The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
you will find your authentic Self.’”
A Year to CLEAR Challenge!
The acronym CLEAR
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a new challenge or thought to provoke conversation, growth, and group
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Accessing the
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In this frontal cortex of the brain we find the anatomy of
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