Desires of the Flesh

Recent thinking has turned my thoughts. As you can tell by my thought pattern, it is random at times and then it get stuck on one topic. Last night after not sleeping for very long in days, I crashed and it was amazing, giving up the fight for control of what is happening around me and realizing that that it is happening since I am battling to see why it is happening. I didn't want to see if I just surrendered to the fact that I can't change it and all things will happen in the perfect timing.

I know what does all of that have to do with our desires. We all desire things, but in those desires if we feed them, what happens to them? They grow, bigger and bigger until we can't control them. Can you believe we all have the some of the same desires? If we are married, we think we are crazy to think about being with someone else... We must not love our mate that much if we do that, but the truth is we do love them, it is just that our flesh wants more. What do I do with those feelings, it seems if I ignore them they grow, or do I give into them.

Now during the next few minutes do not think about the pink elephant hiding in the closet. Didn't I say don't think about it? Why are you still thinking about it? See our brains may make no sense to us why we continue to feed the thoughts, but it doesn't mean we want that thing in the closet, it just means we think about it, we entertain the idea and we think we want it, but in fact we do not. When we give into the idea that we want that pink elephant and we go and get it, it is then that we realize the pink elephant isn't what we thought it was going to be. In the process of first thinking about the pink elephant we made it cute and furry and sweet, but we missed what it really is. It is an idea and that is all. Do you have any pink elephants in your closet?

How do you get rid of pink elephants? That is a good question... No, really in order to get ride of them, you have to stop feeding the ideas, dreaming about how things will be when you get that pink elephant out of the closet. You need to change your focus from the pink elephant, to what the underlying issue is. The issue is we want to have things easy, when in fact life is more difficult and the pink elephant seems easy to get.

Everytime you think about the pink elephant, either change your focus or think of something ugly about that pink elephant. Stop dreaming about how it could be and live for what it is. Work on what the real issue is, instead of seeing the dreams as happy, see them as sucking the life from you. I think there was a movie about that.