Rule No.87 - Let your soul do the singin'.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Kahlil Gibran

Soul: the principle of life, feeling, thought,

and action in humans,regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body,

and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body;the spiritual part

of humans as distinct from the physical part.

So the last couple of posts have been, well, pretty depressing and woe is me and I realised this this morning. Honestly, I am going to blame it on post diet stress. The point of most of this is to make you think a little, sometimes, to read the ramblings from someone that refuses to grow up, and hopefully every now and then to make you giggle a little too. IF i'm lucky. Not a forum for me to be moaning and groaning.

New idea, wake up and not think the sky is going to fall on my head today, that the toast won't fall on the jam side and the friends that count will still be there no matter what. I have to tell you all, that over the past 8 or so months, I have been searching for something, i still don't know what it is, but I have been hunting like mad. But I have been looking everywhere but the obvious. Just like the movies!! Haha

Then I found today's rule and had an Oprah Ah Ha moment. Let your soul do the singin'. Yes, it is a quote from the great Ma Rainey, the mother of the Blues, and yes, it has to do with help in singing, literally. But because this is my blog and I change everything to suit me, I am taking this as a "let your soul do the talking". This way, I can keep my promise to the previous rule about the whole silence thing, and let my soul do all the thinking. My head has helped me get into some pretty unfavourable situations so I'm gonna try wake up in the morning and let my soul sing.

How can your day go wrong if you live by this rule? Unless you have pms, then no song, beat or tambourine can fix that. Let's all try wake up tomorrow and try this. They say if you give the universe positive energy, it will send it back ten fold to you. Let's call this, Suze Mythbusters.

I'll get back to you on the results!

Comments

Gee said…

So true Suze! It reminds me of something from one of your previous blogs. "everything will work out in the end". With your soul singing I have to say that this is most applicable!

3 April 2012 at 14:11

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