Mind poo

Excerpt from a book loaned to us, for a brief moment in time, by Monsieur Metrosexual.

Have you ever heard that little voice in your head that says, “You’re just not good enough. You’re not good enough for that pretty boy or girl, for your family, you’re not good enough to have the things you want, you’re not good enough for marriage, you’re not good enough for to accomplish your dreams.”
Or maybe you’ve heard that little voice say, “This isn’t it. She’s not it, he’s not it, this town’s not it, this meal’s not it, this new shirt is not it” You can make yourself so angry trying to change things that have already happened.
That little voice is also saying, “Something’s wrong! Something’s with my hair, my face, my clothes, my dog, my spouse” How is it possible to be happy if there is always something wrong?
That little voice, it’s not you! It never was you, it never will be you. Let’s call the little voice “mind poo.”
I saw you come into this planet as a beautiful baby, full of love, awe and wonderment. As you grew older you learned to accept the mind poo as part of yourself. But you have a choice. You don’t have to listen to that voice… you can listen to your heart.
When you listen to your heart you meet the right people at the right time and you follow your hunches. Everything that happens to you is the best that you could have ever imagined. I am sure you have experienced moments like this throughout your life. Great grandma Schredd called this feeling the state of Spirit... Inside every human being is a secret knowledge that can guide you to wherever you want to go. You van deny it, or try it. Ted, if you trust that everything will be OK, people will take care of you.. Or you can listen to the mind poo!
All of our lives we were taught that the mind poo was a part of us, that everything just happens by chance, but inside every human being is a superstar: The secret to life is to control your destiny and let the superstar shine. So avoid the mind poo, trust that everything will be OK, listen to your heart, and EnviroRide will be everything you van imagine and more.

That little voice speaks and we listen with gusto. We relish the jaded view of ourselves and the world, revelling in the fact that we are not good enough, never will be and nothing that we accomplish will ever make a dent in the steel plated Kevlar coated tapestry that makes up the world. It’s not easy wrapping your head about notion that most things in your life are good, let alone believing that you can accomplish almost anything. Harder still to imagine, no matter what you have been brought up to believe, that you, yes you, are a wonderful person and that the people whose lives you have graced are very lucky indeed. Ignoring that little voice is not easy. It’s hard. For me it is darn right impossible at times.

There are days when the mind poo works its magic and I will find myself gazing at the mirror wondering why I am blessed by the people who share my life, contemplating the quirks that draw them to me and me to them. There are days when the mind poo is so thick and murky that the world outside feels like it is about to crack open and all the ugliness will come spewing forth. It’s on these days that I have to consciously wrench the reigns away from the little voice that whispers in the shadows, mocking and cynical and tell it:

“Dah`ling that’s the mind poo talking, pay it no heed. Keep your chin up ‘cause there will be better days then this.”