Friday, February 8, 2013

Clutter doesn't always mean those week old dishes and scraps of paper collecting dust where they fell and dollar store cow figurines on the bedside table. A mind can be cluttered too.

It usually starts with just one idea, one harmless idea you picked up somewhere. Maybe it's something that worries you, and you worry the edges smooth and dull the shine. You may toss this idea in a corner for later, where it sits almost forgotten. Pretty soon, you come across a new idea. Maybe it is a quirky looking philosophy you learned in class, and it has invitingly colorful buttons and knobs. You know you don't need it... but then you think of that old, knobby, worn down idea sitting lonely in the corner and you think it couldn't hurt to have something new. And before you know it, any shiny ideas you may have left are buried in the hubbub: a loud mish mashed mess of crazy moth eaten thoughts, piled haphazardly in corners and occasionally tumbling from your mouth.

This unpredictability makes you popular with children, of course, while adults may look at you askance.

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