My Underwear
My Underwear
So, what should I force myself to share next?
How about my underwear!?
Or does that seem pointless and boring, do you think?
Do way-showers blog about their underwear? Really?
Or are way-showers supposed to have a ‘higher purpose’ when they blog?
What if I take today off, and I become an ‘underwear-shower’ instead today?
Oh this blog is going swimmingly well, don’t you think?
We’re off to a great start here, you, me, and my underwear. . .
Hey, don’t tug on that! Thanks.
So anyway,
Oh,Okay, here we go…. yes.
Wow.
I guess this works, even if I am smarting off about my underwear. . .Lol. Unbelievable. See, underwear is mostly to keep you from chaffing your sensitive parts, so you can wear nice looking clothes and still move around freely.
It used to be that when people ran into big trouble, they would “put on sackcloth and ashes” and repent, which just means to turn around and go the other direction. . . So, they would take off their soft underwear and put on rough burlap. . .
Sounds bad, doesn’t it? The burlap would chafe them if they moved around freely. And, the ashes were a visible reminder that they were dirty, and under construction, and needed to clean up their act.
So - what was up with being sooooooo weird like that anyway?
Simple. It just said that I realize that I am messed up and not right. So, I am withdrawing from the world. No fancy clothes and no makeup. I’m going to sit right here, and work on myself, until I get right, and these rough clothes will chafe me if I even try to move around. And I’m not washing off these ashes, until I feel clean and right inside first. The ashes remind me that I have a problem, with me.
Have you seen a house or business remodeled? What do they do? They cover it with a big ugly tarp and they post signs up that say: “Under Repair” and “Pardon our mess. - We’re remodeling.”- It’s the same thing. . .
It is a deliberate INTENTION to FOCUS INWARDLY,TO IMPROVE things.
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”Yesterday I was clever,
so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise,
so I am changing myself.” - Rumi, Sufi poet.
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Them is not just words people. . . That is DIRECTION.
Now, how about some REM lyrics to go with the old Islamic poet?
SURE!. . . Why not?. . . Lets do it.
“Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling
Listen to reason, season is calling. . .
Stand in the place where you live, now face north
Think about direction wonder why you haven't” before.
In case you missed it. The direction to focus your efforts on, to improve things - is inward.
Yep.
And may your underwear - always remind you of this.
(C) RLMcCormick
