How elastic the human mind is!
It’s changing and changeable, contracting and contractible, expanding and expandable, a true wonder of nature!
Unfortunately, it’s also elastic in its habits, obsessively returning to them, building their negativity, over and over and over again.
Just when we think we’ve dealt with an issue, moved past a hurdle, forgiven someone, conquered guilt and fear, or grown at last, we find our minds taking that same old trip down that well-traveled, all too familiar negative spiral instead, again and again and again!
What can we do about this insanity, for insanity it is, if insanity really means doing the same thing over and over and over again, but expecting different results?
We must constantly, elastically, over and over and over again, give up our minds to the Great Higher Mind, the One that changes nature, and the One that makes nature willing to change!
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A little story about a huge thing, written for
Denise’s #SixSentenceStories Prompt, Elastic.
Please also read
Elastic Truth by Frank Hubeny,
which inspired this story and was written for the same prompt.
Hear! Hear! I like the metaphor of bad habits and negativity being elastic. So true, we often get snapped back into the negativity groove. Choice and persistence.
Nice use of the prompt!
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Thanks so much, Denise! Elastic is a great prompt! 🙂
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Very good advice in the last sentence!. It is good to give our minds over to Someone who can change nature and make nature willing to change.
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Thank you, Frank!
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tru dat!
As the saying holds, ‘Nature abhors a vacuum’ so, even if it is the endless maze of repetition, a large part of our selfs… prefer the old to the novel.
Thoughtful Six, yo
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Thank you, Clark!
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Great minds. Ours stretched in similar direction. Good six. This was a toughie.
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It was either this or taffy! Thanks for reading, Paul!
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Well said! Yes, that Someone is there, waiting to help us change, all we have to do is ask.
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Thank you, and thanks for reading!
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Sometimes it takes a while to finish that trip, but when all the lessons one needs to learn concerning the situation have been learned we are ready to move on no longer having our minds entrapped in painful memories. Excellent SSS.
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Well said, Pat! The trip can take a while indeed. Thank you so much for reading!
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I like your taffy idea in the comments above! Probably not many people have pulled taffy (last time I tried, the finished product looked like entrails, especially since I tried to color it pink…)
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I’ve only made and pulled taffy once, with my mom. I don’t remember what color it was, but the pulling was fun!
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”— Michael Corleone, The Godfather 3.
Except in this case we are doing our own pulling. Great six.
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Exactly! Thanks for reading!
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Wonderful use of the prompt!
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Thanks Lisa! 🙂
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