You Don't Have to be Sick to Get Better

Ask yourself this question: "If I could get better without getting sick, would I still wait for the heavy fists of fate to break down my mind's locked door before opening it myself willfully?" The answer might seem like a resounding "No" and yet people remain stubbornly closed-minded to this simple notion of reasoning -- Something must go awfully wrong in our lives before we could hear life's urgent knocks on our doors, or feel its unmistakable presence at our doorsteps. And even then, at that crucial moment in time, the vast majority of us would rather take a squint-eyed peek through the dark peephole in the door than open it.

Much like a house, our minds reside within an edifice of walls with windows and doors which we control -- with our free will, we open them, or close. Some people choose to shut their windows firmly on a breezy day, and swing them wide during a storm; they opt to draw their curtains tight from dawn to dusk blocking the sunlight from entering, while they leave them open from nightfall to daybreak, thus inviting waves of darkness to penetrate ... and so it goes.

So why, do you suppose, we so often, foolishly slip our mind's wrists into these self-imposed shackles with a hideous smirk on our face? In other words: Why do we hurt one another? Why do we open our copious mouths before engaging our little minds? Why do we cut each other up so bad and sprinkle salt on open wounds we so proudly inflict? Why? W-H-Y? ... Honestly, I do not know why! You have to find out for yourself. Dig deep within your heart and try to gain access to your soul and see if your "conscious" has left you a forwarding address. Try to invite this rightful resident -- your estranged spiritual essence -- back into your inner being while life still pulsates in your veins. After all, today, right at this minute, what guarantees does anyone have that the table of life would not suddenly fold their empty chair tomorrow?