from tomorrow to yesterday

you can focus on the positive and ride the wonderful wave it provides...

you can focus on the negative and use it to beat yourself up...

you can do as you wish...

i wish there was less negative and more positive...

i wish there was more gentle and less caustic...

i can not change others, i can only change myself...

i can try to ignore or walk away or block out the negative and caustic, but that wastes energy and leaves me dissatisfied, so i rarely try...

i learn to perceive everything as personally or impersonally as i wish...

i believe everything can be presented more positively...

i do not want to spend my time judging others or myself, even though i do sometimes...

i can do as i wish (even though i don't sometimes... do i forget?)...

there is so much in this world that can hurt me when i want to feel hurt...

i ask myself, why would i want to feel hurt?...

sometimes the questions run too deep...

maybe REM or Supertramp or U2 or some external influence might distract me and/or provide assistance...

just a round about way of getting to the answer which has always been between my ears...

am i a scardy cat?... wasting time?... is that where i'm at?... wasting rhyme?... the cat in the hat, was that a crime?... pinned to the mat is not sublime... too many questions, too little time...

so stop asking?

irony, aye, a question about questioning if too many questions are being asked of myself... the convolutions are escapable, but only when i stop adding to them...

fight or flight is a waste of time for me... may it be more useful for you...

boundaries may be the most important awareness of all...

and locus of control...

and breath...

the air is yours for but a moment, embrace it, treasure it, release it, it is being alive...

and love...

or whatever...

as you wish...