I heard our youngest daughter scream in her sleep. A few moments later, she was calling out to her mom for help. Eventually, she came into our bed and squeezed herself and Minnie toy in. Fast forward, during the day I asked her what her nightmare was about.
“I forgot!” She exclaimed. “I took that nightmare out of my brain and threw it in the garbage before I could write it.” She added making a hand gesture of picking up something near her brain and throwing it out.
I was amazed at her perfect answer. I mean why dwell on a nightmare until you ‘write it’ and end up remembering it? Wow! Her lesson in those few words said much. Now I know next time I have a bad experience, dream or whatever, I won’t waste time dwelling on it, but will throw it out and move on.
What a wonderful lesson from the little girl in our natural way of thinking we spend so much time dwelling on the irreversible past regretting n hoping things had been different all the while wasting our potential for brighter thoughts and experiences in the future. Like the saying goes in every cloud there is a silver lining. Lets learn to dump our past negative experiences in the dustbins and learn to concentrate on our potential to create beautiful experiences n thoughts in the future.
Hahaha! That’s hilarious!..no time to waste remembering dismembered nightmares.