When I think to much, my brain hurts. These past few days of facts and figures and numbers and numbers have really begun to make my head hurt. I was the girl in college who was ELATED when she discovered that changing her major meant she only had to take one math class. Math just ain't my thing.
I remember not too very long ago I breezed through life. I didn't put concern with the deeper ends of things. You see, if you stay in the middle where it is easy to go shallow or deep and tread water pretty easily in the mean time. There is a point in everyone's life where flying by the seat of your pants is just easy. Easy, though, is not always a good thing.
So... where am I headed with this. I like things that make me think. I like things that challenge the way I view something and understand something. So often we live in our own little realities and comfort zones of information that we need that inspiration and plunge in to the deeper ends of life.
Small talk is small talk, but I think it is time to take some deeper plunges into the world. One way I have started to do this in my own life is to actually read. As I have said before, I am starting to read more. I am finding that as I am challenging myself to read new and different things, I want more of it. I want to read more. This is a strange reality for me because I have never enjoyed reading. I have run through the last 2 books at lightening speeds and while I wait for the new books to come from Amazon, I have 2 that I will be reading through on my bookshelves.
They say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Not that I think I was wasting my mind, but I was far too comfortable in its use. I didn't use nearly all of my brain guts.
I may not ever be good at math (in the words of Martin Luther, "This is most certainly true."), but I will never stop challenging the possibilities and potentialities of my mind.
AMEN
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