Possibility and Perspective

Todays overall theme was possibility and perspective. Two things I'm not exactly itching to think about in relation to my life but know I must. I called up a girlfriend today frantic... I get myself in an emotional tizzy some days worried about, well gosh just about everything. She told me ... Larrin a word of advice, just live in the now, you are too smart of a girl to be worried or concerned about any aspect of what lies ahead. She was right and I calmed down instantly. Really we only have so much control over what unfolds in our lives. Why waste energy worrying about the what if's and the what should be's and whatever else. Just accept, be happy, live the life you love. In whatever facet that means to you at the moment. So I went on my merry way. I went to school and plopped down in my first class...poetry. Something I do on an every day basis but when faced with a classroom of tightly sat snug as a bug students faced with words and phrases like.. "his hot breath stung the fleshy interior of my thigh as he...." ( you get it)... I get a bit squeamish. I chose the least steamy poem I could find in the book that was given to me that apparently was completely sex related. It was short sweet and the dirtiest thing I had to say out loud was... "she liked licking the salty sweat off of rough necked men." OK got that out of the way right... well then we discussed the theme of the class for the semester.

Possibility.

the professor goes on to tell a story about two shoe salesmen who go to a foreign country to weigh out the prospects of potential shoe buyers.

No one in the country wears shoes.

one man writes back... "absolutely dismal. No prospects, no one wears shoes. "
the other writes back
"wonderful business opportunity, desperately in need of shoes."

moral of the story... having perspective on the possibilities that lie before us.
It's all in the attitude of the viewer. How prospective a situation is or an investment... a period of time. The possibilities are what you deem them.

So shes telling us by next week we have to write a letter in the past tense to her... explaining all of the things we have accomplished and achieved in our personal and professional lives by December.

DUDE! I was just getting good with the idea of NOW ... now you want me to think that far ahead.

I'm at a loss. I honestly have had so much shift in my life... where I live, who I have become, what I do for a living... etc has all just happened to me. I let life happen to me I haven't tried to go against the flow in any way and maybe thats my downfall just following my emotions at any moment but then again its put me in quite a state of independence and freedom.

I am awfully bad at pulling the brakes on life and I'm terribly awful at accelerating it in any way. So to write about the state of my life come December is mind blowing.

she wants us to use the idea of possibility in our writing. Don't just explore a perspective from your eyes look through someone else's kind of deal. So in the coming days i will attempt to see the world from a different angle.

I will attempt to write a poem from someone else's perspective.
ideas will be appreciated.

Much Love to you all:-)