Two Points

It happened in such a single perfectly smooth motion it was almost like poetry. Last night I was in the gym rest room before my workout. In the same split second three events occurred. I flushed the toilet, my newest perscription eye glasses fell out of my jacket pocket into the bowl like nothin'-but-net, and my eye glasses disappeared in a no-nonsense industrial-strength swoosh. It seemed there was nothing I could do. I admit there was enough time for the repugnant thought of putting my hand in the toilet to fish out the glasses to pass through my brain. But I don't think there was enough time to actually reach down and do it, which was actually a kind of relief.

Then I thought, what if there really was time, and it was just my hesitancy caused by ingrained squeamishness about reaching my hand into the toilet that resulted in the loss of the glasses? Excuse my overactive brain, but I think this shows that everything we do is influenced by a thought or attitude. I just read A Separate Peace on the plane home from Maryland and the violent act that occurred as the center of the plot, though not consciously decided upon, was the unconscious result of new suspicious and negative thoughts that the perpetrator had been focusing on immediately before. In a split second, everything changed because of the way the person had been thinking. (Read this excellent book if you want to find out what happened!) This is what we humans are made of. Our actions will reflect our character when we least expect it!

Bye-bye glasses.