This room I must leave
so I pack my things
ready to vacate this place
to making in this big bad world.
In this room I have been trapped
red tapes crushed me
regret,
great expectations
false hope
tied me up to die
in this cold solitary room.
I left
hopped on a plane wing
ready to use my voice
explore
discover
over power
disillusion and bring back dreams
locked in that room.
So I made it
landed in cool conditions
I was so glad...
Now,
I sit in this room
and wander...
Tag: reality check
Befuddled
Befuddled!
I am utterly befuddled!
walked into a shop
right...
thought I'd have a calm night
right...
buy little this, little that and wine
right...
run out barely with my life!
grocery shop have saber toothed prices
right!!
Stressed and befuddled!
thought I could give some help
yeah...
cause I'm a good guy
yeah...
Samaritan and all of that
yeah...
expletives were my best friend today
yeah..
Now I know my place
yeah!!
dumbstruck and Befuddled!
Usually I give good advice
right...
so being a good friend
right...
I decided to help them out
right...
The tongue lashing almost crippled me
right!!
Now I am betroubled.
In this great, big beautiful life
all I have is Befuddled.
Daydreaming Away Reality
People tell you that when you get older you need to live in the “Real World”. You need to live in REALITY. What if you cannot cope in the real world? what then? Many of us turn to daydreaming and away from living in the harsh light of the NOW because we need an escape. For a moment or some moments, we can envision everything we lack in the reality that is our lives. We can say what we always wanted to say to the people who seem too large and too terrifying in our lives. In the reality of our dreams, we can vanquish our enemies, solve our problems, conquering fears too frightening to give voice to. We can be clean when we have become corrupted by mistakes, ill-advised actions or wayward thoughts. It is a comforting place. Until you are dragged back to everything you vanquished in your mind. you have to, you need to, you must. Anxiety-inducing thoughts that seem to follow you until you lock it out with the door of your imagination.
But those menacing enemies, worries and fears linger in the woods of reality waiting to pounce when you emerge from your castle of dreams. So you find yourself staying more often in your castle refusing to be confronted by these monsters in the woods. Then, you are not satisfied with leaving and returning but feel the need to stay and build the castle wall higher and higher until reality does not exist only your dreams…Is real life worth coming back to?
There are many articles on how maladaptive daydreaming is dangerous yet many still and will part take. The thing is, many people will daydream but not everyone will be negatively affected by the act of daydreaming. Immersive daydreaming has been recognised as harmless once it does not interfere with our day-to-day lives. We all need a little escape from our present circumstances from time to time, but do we want to live more in the real world or be enchanted by our dreams? Where are you right now in 2025? Has your daydreaming gone over the edge to maladaptive or are you able to pull back leave your castle face those monsters and win?
Social Experiment
Social Experiment Step right in and take a seat. Look around and be scared. Nothing is as it seems and never will but now you can see a real crime scene. You thought you were free? Yes indeed! But it seems you are not? You thought your cause was right and you fought with all your might until they removed the screen of deceit. But then they brought you out the puppeteer and your realised... you were not the ventriloquist.
It’s Too Late?
It's Too Late? Where have the years gone and when did the wrinkles come home to roost? Lady, why did you settle for empty promises? Why did you settle under their thumb rejected and forlorn? Is it too late to smile again? to feel the sun on your face? Is it too late to leave the pain? Just have some fun? Is it too late to stop and fight even after your flight? Is it too late to be alive when death was your bedmate? It is too late? We will see...
Shine shine shine!
The parable that encourages is not to hide our light but let it shine for all to see, is one that I consider today. There are many who feel hopeless because they feel they have little contribution to make. They see so many gifted persons who have done so much and they look at their lives and what they have done and are ashamed of their lack of accomplishments. I have a friend who is an excellent cook, who shares the delight of what she creates. By doing so she is sharing her talent that delights the eyes and satisfies the taste buds. She is shining her light, her gift which touches those close to her and those far away. I remember my grandmother -great grand mother actually -who baked over 2o Christmas cake each year and gave most of it away, who always left a little extra when she cooked “in case stranger pass”. She was an amazing cook and many came to take delight in her offerings.
Many hesitate to be and show who they are, because they are afraid they may fail or come up short, so they never shine where they are. They hope and hope that one day they will get the chance to get it right, like all the others who succeed. If we are to shine we must act out those talents, out purpose and do so not with fake modesty but with the confidence that we are doing what we meant to do.
Shining as we were meant will bring us peace. Knowing that we are using our gifts to empower and uplift others will in turn empower and uplift us. We just need to make sure that we do not try to confirm to a way of being that is not aligned to who we are so that we do not out our light.
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