Absolutely Bananas

          Here we are! This is my first blog ever! I always used to think, "there is no way I am going to ever use, or even have a blog", but look here! I have one! I still don't really know what I am supposed to write about, because my teacher gave me no direction, which causes me to go crazy, and become agitated. It causes me to scrunch my toes, and clutch my dirty blonde hair, while my muscles are tightening and stiffening. You know that feeling? That feeling where your muscles have been set a certain way and if you move they reluctantly move with you? The feeling where you feel as though you're old and ancient, and your muscles have shrunk? It makes you take on all of those slug like characteristics, and doesn't seem to help you overcome the road block that's causing the issues in the first place.

       Think of it this way, you are alone, walking down a deserted road, it's about 40 degrees outside and your body is chilly. The gusts of wind nip at your pale flesh. You touch your plump rosy red cheeks gently; a penetrating sting travels throughout your body, triggering the "goose-bump affect." You're still walking, -even wondering, there is no sign of anyone else, yet you continue down this gloomy suspicious road, which, most likely hasn't been repaved in years. You're very uncertain, where you are. In this situation, what thoughts would be shooting through your head? Millions would be right?

        With each step you become even more unhappy, most people may feel scared, but for me, I would feel stressed, stressed from the unidentifiable road I am on, stressed from the lack of resources, and stressed because I would have no idea what to do. I would be lost, and defeated. If when I first set foot on the road, I had a plan and was acquainted with where I was, I would have been better able to manage the unknown. Perhaps, I would have wanted to stay longer, because I wouldn't have had that whole "fear of the unknown" implanted in my brain. If I had known where I was, or even how to get home, I would have maybe stopped every once in a while, at one of the many corn fields, or stopped to pick a dainty wildflower, and maybe collect a whole bundle with every color imaginable! I would collect purple ones, pink ones, orange ones and yellow ones, ignoring many of the dandelions. I maybe would have been more open to examining and exploring! I would have stopped to look at everything, from the dirty speckled white horses, to the hairy robust pigs.

            My whole point is, a lot of the time many of us don't achieve our full potential because we have a negative first impression of things. We are reluctant to even be open to new things. If one never opens up to the world and those they care about in it, then they won't ever achieve their full potential. Keep in mind, he has a plan for all of us, it’s just up to us to open ourselves up to him.

             Maybe one person just joined a new company, and they realize that many of the people that already work there are veterans. Everyone knows each other and everything about one another. The work atmosphere there is that of a white picket fence neighborhood. The new comer becomes intimidated. Often, people who are hesitant to be themselves, end up not shining to their full potential, because they hide who they are, afraid of not being able to achieve what is expected of them. When in the long run maybe the company is failing and they hold the key to saving it, who knows! It's just how many of us are, we go through our lives being judged and always just intending to do well but many of us are knocked down once or twice before we actually achieve what we wanted.