This reminds me of something that came to me the other day. I've been playing a game on my kindle called Words. To be honest I've been playing it a long time and it's a game about anagrams. Your given a set of letters and create as many words out of it as you can. And an anagram is when you can take the same letters of a word a convert it into something else. A popular one which is just an inversion is stressed and desserts. That is humorous since, let's face it, most of us like a little of that sweetness to turn our stress around. However the two that made the aha was poems and mopes. When I first read it, I went oh no...poems should never make mopes. But then I said, aha, poems can certainly turn mopes into a happier disposition.
And not that I never got this before but it gave me a better metaphor on the stories our mind tells us. There are so many times we make ASSUMPTIONS (yes you know what those lead to) about a persons actions meanwhile there can be a million other reasons. Once a friend told me a story of how her brother had invited her mother and other relatives to something at his house and left her off the invite list. She was totally pissed off about this and went on about the family dynamics. Meanwhile she had been the caretaker of her aging and ailing mother and it was draining the hell out of her. My story was that her brother realized that she was taking on most of the burden on taking care of the mother and by doing this, she was able to have some freedom and time for self care while the rest of them did some mom sitting. That's just one of a myriad. Unless we talk it out, we don't know but why do often chose the story that is going to pick the scab of one of our wounds. Why don't we choose to see people in another way. Why choose negativity when you can choose positivity? So let's turn the stories we tell our selves into anagrams and I feel like I should have a really good anagram hear...but let's go on a quest together...
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