....but I didn't learn anything.

It's hard for me to reflect on issues in my own life if they don't include blood, death, or other obviously terrible consequences....but I've decided I want to focus on keeping my mind healthy.  I think this is the key to keeping other areas of life healthy too.  Sounds so simple, yet so right...

So, what do you think, do we spend enough time thinking about how we think? Sometimes I wonder if we do...? As an educator, I have been in many schools and have seen the act of non-teaching (pretty self-explanatory) as well as teaching complacency and non-thinking (worksheets and busy-work).  My own experience in high school was to be rewarded for doing and thinking as my teachers wanted me to - which in my definition is NOT thinking.  I mean I will say I learned how to organized and turn things in ontime, but I could learn that anywhere.  I mean,  I was very quiet, never engaged in school but passed with flying colors 3.8GPA, Honors Society Nominee..etc etc...but I didn't learn anything. 

This, along with weird family stuff (father issues) I think I was taught not to think.  My life was easiest when other people were happy, so I choose to continue not to think and act only to please.  Crazy, huh?  I think so.  Anyway, I'm glad I get to break free from this non-thinking.  At 28, I am so excited to get to know me.  And to think.

On NPR, a guest was speaking about thinking and how this is hard to do in a society where news tells us how to think, reality TV tells us how to act..etc etc.  I am choosing to take time to think...similar to meditation, but to just think about my day and feelings - to reflect.  Sounds corny, but I'm going to try it...:) 

The mind is so powerful, and never used to it's fullest.  What do you say to thinking...???