What's on Your Mind

[Alvin]

"Alvin?"
"What?"
"Alvin?"
"What?"
"Alvin?"
"What?"

[sillyboy86]

[Senpaija]

I got drawing on my mind!
Just got a fantastic idea for a personal drawing reflecting a inner part of myself.

[Matt608]

Thinking about cooking - I have friends coming for dinner tonight who are vegan, so I'm checking out recipes - wondering if soy chicken is good?

[CellarDweller]

going to work tomorrow

[Emiliano]

All kinds of stuff, from the very personal to the general state of the world. How to move forward, how to find positivity, and more importantly, how to be a positive influence. How to shake the anger I'm carrying with me. How to relax... how to just let stuff go...

I think too much, I feel too much, and I stress too much.

[Pyromancer]

The wonderful absurdity of life. The way things change. The way that something that seems really bad can morph into something unexpectedly positive. My daughter is trying to train the youngest of our 2 dogs to use the potty chair. Every day is a new adventure.

[InbetweenDreams]

All kinds of stuff, from the very personal to the general state of the world. How to move forward, how to find positivity, and more importantly, how to be a positive influence. How to shake the anger I'm carrying with me. How to relax... how to just let stuff go...

I think too much, I feel too much, and I stress too much.

Perhaps you can expand on that? What seems to be dragging you down? Surely that handsome guy in your avatar isn't the one who's carrying anger...

[InbetweenDreams]

The wonderful absurdity of life. The way things change. The way that something that seems really bad can morph into something unexpectedly positive. My daughter is trying to train the youngest of our 2 dogs to use the potty chair. Every day is a new adventure.

I want to do that with my cat...

He poops entirely too much. I think he poops more than he eats... I think there might be something to this free energy stuff...

[Emiliano]

Perhaps you can expand on that? What seems to be dragging you down? Surely that handsome guy in your avatar isn't the one who's carrying anger...

I'm not exactly sure how to take that... but there's a lot to be angry about, there's a lot to be stressed about, there's a lot to feel sad or lost or overwhelmed about. I feel like you and I have had enough, sometimes heated, interactions for you to have a general sense of the things that bother me in this world and in other people. Add to that, I work with at risk, marginalized communities- which often brings the abstract injustices of the world very close to home and real for me.

How I'm feeling is one thing though. But in my job and in my interactions with others, I feel strongly about positioning myself as a role model, as a motivator, and as a support. So when I feel the negative energy creeping into my ability to be a positive force for others, it further stresses me out. People can't lean on me if I'm not even able to stand up, you know?