Okay we are back again for another week. Thanks for coming, let’s get down to it.

We spend much of our lives thinking over our experiences and what they mean to us. Some are good and others not so much, but all of them are there something and form the story that makes us as people.

Reading over my quote book today, I found one that I think says a lot about how we interpret and think about our past. It is a quote form Aldous Huxley and it goes as follows.

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences”

I really like this view and what it means. When I hear it, I think of a necklace with beads on it. Each bead represents a memory or an experience from our lives. While the words that we use to describe those memories are the threads that link one another.

Continuing with the necklace analogy, I imagine that just like how we could take the beads off the necklace and put them on a new one. So too, can we change our feelings toward our experiences by changing our words that we use to remember those past moments. The memories themselves stay much the same, because we can’t change what happened in the past, but that doesn’t mean we have to wear them on a thread that doesn’t suit us well.

I think by doing that, changing the words we use to describe our life, we can change how we feel about them. To take it further, if you can do that for the past, why not do it for the present as well. Getting real crazy here, imagine if you tried to do it for the future.

I’m not sure exactly what would happen, but it’s something I’ve thought about after reading that quote.

I guess choose your words wisely, and find the thread that works best for you and your beads.

Deuces.

Thanks to all the Hedites.