ABOUT CLUTTER
 

The more you are in the past,
the less you can be here NOW.

The more reminders there are around you,
of past times and past people,
the LESS likely you are to live in the present.

If your walls and all your shelves,
are filled with pictures of THEN,
if most of your thoughts and talk,
are about the "way it was",
you are DENYING now a chance to be.

If you mostly enjoy old movies,
and listen to mainly old songs,
you keep feeding you mind the fact,
that you are UNHAPPY in the NOW.

If you constantly regret you past,
and can't let go of the haunts,
you are filling your life with clutter,
and soon will worry about worry.

If you awake each new day,
and plant an "image" of yourself,
from a time past, a negative,
the day has already been lived.

If you think you can change someone,
make someone be as you want,
you are living in an illusion,
and are co-depending on a dream.

If you are trying to "be" someone,
for someone other than for YOU,
you are denying yourself a life,
and your time is ticking away.

If you need a constant amount,
of approval, permission and validation,
you have given your control away,
this becomes another source of clutter.

If you are seeking, looking, wishing,
for happiness to come your way,
all the dreams, hopes and prayers,
without ACTION by you,,,do NO THING.

Do you allow others to live your life,
do "THEY" have control over you,
over your ambition, energy, and desire,
this denial of SELF will ring true.

Worrying about what you can't control,
is as silly as it seems and sounds,
it is a waste of your time and space,
it becomes an excuse not to face NOW.

Do you allow the things you CAN control,
sit around and remain undone,
do allow your life to be uncontrolled,
because of your fear, and doubt of life?

After you've ordered the pizza,
hang up the damn phone,
no pizza will come through the lines,
you need to go wait by the door.

By the same token,
place positive seeds in your mind,
and HANG UP,
got out of your minds way,
and allow the seeds to grow,
for constantly staying there,
will ONLY complicate the situation.

You don't take a breath,
and follow it, as it flows,
you TRUST your body knows,
how to process the air,
you MUST use that SAME TRUST,
and ALLOW your mind to work!!
 

Written by: Ed Kassirer
August 1, 2001