Great Minds Like A Think July 11, 2013
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, Mindfulness, People.comments closed
Many/most/all humans are delusional.
We accept what conforms to our beliefs and reject any and all evidence to the contrary.
By way of example, in college, when I was slim and trim, I saw only my imperfections and envisioned myself as an impossibly large gargantuan plodding oaf.
Fi Fie Fo Fum.
When I flip through photo albums and see photos of me THEN, now . . . I am amazed (and dismayed) at my ridiculously skewed judgment back then.
What the hell was I thinking?
In like vein, now that I am not so young and lithesome, I see myself in my mind’s eye as youthful and spry.
Until I see photographic evidence to the contrary or am taken aback by peering into the mirror and really seeing myself as I am, today.
Wow! When did THAT happen?!
And it’s not just me. Of course it isn’t.
I see plenty of hare-brained, bird-brained, scatter-brained folks wandering blithely about . . . oblivious to reality, lost in delusional thinking.
Given that we are subject to delusions in our thinking, the trick is to make our delusions work FOR us not AGAINST us.
Visualize yourself as you want to be . . . and you will become. Or you won’t. But in the meantime, you’ll be far happier.
Aah . . . that’s better!
And, now, a question. If you had to choose between being “brilliant, but troubled” or a “happy idiot,” which would you choose?
Despite my daily pursuit of happiness, I would NOT voluntarily shed my intelligence and ability to think in order to move a few notches up the happiness ladder.
What about you?
The title of this post is the new marketing slogan for The Economist.
Spirit Lights The Way 