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I once heard a story about a women who was so scared of getting a shot, nurses had to chase her around the room before she would calm down, but after she knew the relief that resulted, she injected herself.
Too many times I discover how easy something can be after spending too long simply avoiding it. People may be scared of a little pain, but if we can realize the long term benefit, the giant needle turns into a tiny prick.
Medicine for the body is a physical procedure, while medicine for the mind or soul is a freeing process. Both involve awareness of the problem and a solution for relief. Like the woman who was scared of the shot, the healthy mind may take a prick before one can understand a problem in their life. But also like the shot, a simple awareness of the problem can yield long term benefits.
Before getting upset for the rest of the day because of a personal problem, reflect for a minute and see if you can understand why you are feeling that way, so the shot you just took, can at least, have a placebo effect.

Take a Step

The past may loom with heavy clouds
The future may look dark
But find life's brightness in the present
So each step can be illuminated with beauty



Only one more hour of exams before I'm free for a month, hallelujah! 

Explore, enjoy

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
   
    What is a explorer? Someone who discovers world changing secrets? Finds earths hidden treasures? Navigates through near-death adventure around every corner?
    My explorer is much simpler. My explorer asks questions, from well known inquiries to ridiculous speculations. My explorer discovers what the heart yearns for. Finds the hidden spots of the imagination and illuminates them. Takes happiness wherever he may go, on yellow brick or through mountain paths. My explorer finds what he wants and does not let himself get in the way.
    Do you know your explorer? Discover him/her. Discover what adventures you seek. Discover what makes your life tick. Catch the winds in your sails.

Travel far, travel near

  Travel for vacation, travel for business, travel for escape. Traveling can be seen as going to a new place in hopes of success, relief or rest. But the idea of travel does not have to be physical. A monk may sit without moving, yet travel farther than any plane can take you. A reader may open a book, turn to a page and enter a world they can only imagine. An author may write their life work from a dream.
   Travel is relative, travel is in the eye of the traveler.Going back to The think thought trot (7/27), what you think influences your reality.Traveling through your thoughts can change what you see and how you feel. You can stand in front of a pyramid in Giza and see no purpose in their design and feel no inspiration. But you can also imagine you are in Giza and see a problem in your life as a simple brick in the thousands that make your great pyramid; nothing that could make you crumble. We have the passport to our own world, we use it everyday to shape how we see everything around us, from our daydreams to our reality.
   Travel is free, travel is far, travel is near. Instead of searching the globe for happiness, first look at yourself, discover the traveler so then you can understand where you want to go. Traveling can be one of humans greatest gifts. Birds can soar above us, engines may drive propellors, but nothing can take us to the places our minds can. 

On our side

There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mohandas Gandhi

    Time. Many wish for more of it, but why? Are we asking for more chances and opportunities or trying to add hours to our day? The latter will stay at 24 no matter how hard we try, but the first is in our grasp. The river of time only flows in one direction, our struggle against the current is our only control. If we fight to go back or push to go forward, we miss where the river has taken us and thus everything around us.
    If we can take a honest look at what surrounds us, without the anxiety of time, the opportunities can be seen on either shore. They are in our daily routines and offbeat thoughts, it's our choice to choose and take our chances, one day at a time. For everything you want cannot be made in a day, but all the tools you need are always with you. So gather some wood, build a raft and enjoy what time can offer, here and now.

Life's like a engine.. better know your parts

Do you know what a engine does? But do you know how every part moves to work together and create what we use? Just as there is much more to a engine than a few pieces of metal, oil and steady diet of petroleum, life and everything in it contains a wealth of knowledge and complexity we can continuously learn about.
Also like a engine, each part of our lives plays a important role, without it, we just wouldn't work right. But also like a engine, how well do we know these parts? How about our own bodies? How they run; their "oil"(protein enzymes), their "pistons"(muscles) and "spark plug" (brain)? You could spend your whole life just trying to wrap your head around the bodies biological highways.
Now I am not suggesting you dive into what scientists spend their lives studying, rather I am pointing out there is a lot more to our world than what most of us see. Take a minute and appreciate what it takes for us to be here, breathing, thinking, human beings. Appreciate the loved ones who understand you unlike anyone else, appreciate being alive and living life, because if you have that appreciation, you've taken a step in understanding your engine.