Sometimes we get so caught up in our minds we complicate our lives beyond recognition.  Learning how to let go is the real challenge in life.  Realizing that some things are not always as you think they are; or intended as you perceived them.

I am guilty of complicating my life.  While in certain cases I have an uncanny sense of people and understanding them; other times I over dramatize what I perceive are underlying intentions. 

We all need to remember that things are not always as we perceive them.  Take a single message and whisper it around a room and without fail it will come through entirely different as it was originally.  We should pay more attention to what that childhood classroom demonstration really portrays.

Instead of being so sure we always know what is going on around us; we have to be humble enough to admit to ourselves that the majority of what we think is going on really isn't; and the same majority of what we think we've portrayed to others has been misinterpreted. 

What can be done about it; I honestly don't have the answers.  I struggle with this constantly.  I think sometimes my own overactive mind is my worst enemy.  It surely keeps me awake many nights and gives me more than my share of stressors.  If I could just learn to quiet that voice in my head and let things go.  Let myself forget things; let myself not care sometimes; let certain wrongs stay wrong and accept injustices without being destroyed. 

I have realized that my extra sense; where I know things; seems to be most clear when I am looking at something from a distance.  I read people when I first meet them or don't know them very well.  When they get close, I have a tendency to distrust my instincts and let my mind complicate by analyzing the relationship.  I don't trust my instincts and roll with it.  While I hide it well; underneath I am extremely guarded and defensive.   I over analyze every word and action; then I over-value the deductions from the analysis.  By the time I'm through I've added decades to the original content and intent.

Lighten Up seems to be the ultimate motto.  Understanding what that really means takes some reflection on myself.  Implementing it in my life is going to be quite a challenge.  I don't know whether I'll be successful or not.  However, I'm afraid if I don't try that ultimately I'm the one that will pay the consequences.