Plants that rot from plants of thought

If you plant a seed in the ground that gives it the opportunity to grow into a plant.

If you plant a thought in your mind that gives it the opportunity to grow into a characteristic.

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing the same things over and over and over. While I want to stay on the same concept, "Life out of the Den", my brain wants to include everything. I do believe that having multiple outlets in your life creates more freedom and the ability to be happy. If you only have one goal, one purpose in life, then everything else will depress and suppress you.

For example. I like business, I think it's fun. I like studying them, running them, and seeing myself buying and operating them one day. I like baseball. Not just to watch and study, but to play as well. It has always been a goal of mine to play for as long as I could and coach even longer. Coach my boys and others as well. Something I can do everyday that allows my brain to run, is landscaping and gardening. Much like the artist (although to some it isn't freeing, it's a burden), I can simply tune the world out around me and work on making my plot of land better than it was before. In some cases (most) that takes a lot of effort and work, but I don't see it is that. Plants are something that makes me happy. You can see progress every time you do something.

If I didn't have these things, I would feel that work was all I ever had. That would not be good. Work is something you get paid for. You have to find enjoyment in it while you are at it, but unless it's part of your daily life and routine and something you enjoy (luckily it is that for me), that isn't going to come easy. You have to come home to something else, and you need to have a reason to go home.

There are things in my life that I love because I want them there. There are more things in my life that I try to workout or don't want in my life, and they constantly try to ruin the things I do want for myself.

I often think of the founders of this nation and inventors of the things we enjoy now days and read what they wrote. I try to think like they think (not what other people say it was like). Whatever your spiritual text is, go to it. These people didn't think like we do. They had less, and created more. I've always preferred less and simplicity. If I feel a room getting cluttered, I'll gut it. If I feel off or not at peace with something, I'll rearrange everything from furniture to pictures, maybe even add something as long as it keeps things simple. Don't forget that plants have this affect also (both positive and negative)

A lot of the times it's me though. Something I have done or said, or something I let impress upon me that needs to waste away or be dealt with. My god it doesn't take long, it just takes saying it. Start acting against things that are torturing you. I watch people all the time stay in there den's of misery and despair and they don't say anything about it or ask for help. This is life in the den. Get out of it.

If you want out of the den, you have to ask of help. The inhabitants are not going to help you, help has to come from outside.