Of Controlling Our Eating and Thinking

     We are what we eat. So is it with our thoughts. What we experience and perceive mold and shape our minds. Experiences defines the course and movements of our minds, be it good or bad. However, one must not forget that one has more control over the preference as to what we want to eat rather than having control over what we would like to perceive. We could add spices to what we want to eat, but with our thoughts, we could neither add what is tasty nor filter what is bitter, sweet or bland. We could take out the pieces of meat, vegetables and garnishing that we do not want while in our thoughts, we could only differentiate but not shove it out completely. We could choose the amount that we would like to consume, but for what our minds think about, we could hardly cut it into pieces, moreover chew what we only want. 

     Yes, there are a whole lot of similarities between eating and thinking...but there are lot of differences as well...BIG, BIG DIFFERENCES. We are what we eat, so is it with our thoughts but what separates the two, aside from what is physically and materially obvious is the reality of CONTROL FACTOR. 

Hopelessly Believing

We all look forward for something
good to happen.

     Looking for hope is an enormous task that demands believing. Hope is something to be found only in the context of an assumption and prayer that there is something better that lies ahead--and that there is a reason why one should keep on moving forward. In my life experience, the light of hope had recently passed through extinguishing events that kept me grappling for something to hold on to so I would never give up on my very life itself. Overwhelming experiences are great extinguishers of hope. They devour the very last ounce of faith that is present by reminding you of your mortality and limitations. Worst of all, hopelessness could be infectious and contagious. In the company of the paranoid, the lack of hope becomes the overpowering poltergeist that afflicts pain and menace to the core of one's belief.
     Some say love conquers hopelessness, to which I agree, with some inclusions. A person who is hopeless must see that there is a reality of goodness that is to happen. a seeing that goes beyond the realms of ordinary perception and current psycho-physical experience. The question that remains to be answered is: What would make depressed people see something good to look forward to. Teach me to hope...make me see beyond what I see...open my eyes to the wonder I cannot behold yet.

Traveling: Physically Present, Socially Absent

     The things that you bring when you decide to accompany someone on a journey directly affect the relationship that you have with your travel buddy. If one decides to spend time bonding with your companion, it is better to leave things behind that belongs to the office or things that belongs to the neighborhood. It would not mean leaving the consciousness of what you're suppose to accomplish at work, but it's about not allowing them to interfere with what you are suppose to do when you are traveling; nor should it stash you away from the present.

...the way you travel with your companions, determines the kind of relationship that you have with them

     When engaging on a journey, the most insulting thing that one can do to a travel buddy is to be socially absent in the course of the travel, absorbed in another dimension--either by work, tasks to be accomplished and petty things that is being made the center of concern. It's far worse than being physically absent on a trip...it inflicts insult and injury. Hey travel buddy, embarking on a journey is not only physical presence but a dynamic social interaction!

     So the next time you decide to accompany someone, make sure that you have the will to be mentally, physically and emotionally present, lest you end up making your companion blaze with anger and much frustration. I guess this also goes strongly with families who decide to take a vacation. Dads and Moms who bring along work and allow it to eat it up their time that is to be spent for their children only brings disappointment to the heart of the kids who wishes to savor the trip with their parents. Chances are the children would end up disgruntled rather than refreshed. 

     I guess the way you travel with your companions whenever you hit the road, in a way, determines the kind of relationship that you have with them...