I posted this question to Facebook and
didn't get any answers probably because people know my questions are
usually rigged. This one was no different.
“If
you want to paint your house chartreuse, and in the entire universe
that is the only color I dislike, but if it makes you happy, I'll
even help.
So what is wrong with the rest of you?
Why can't you be satisfied with just making your little piece of the universe a happy place for you and leave everyone else alone to be happy in their own way?
Seriously, I want to know the answer. “
So what is wrong with the rest of you?
Why can't you be satisfied with just making your little piece of the universe a happy place for you and leave everyone else alone to be happy in their own way?
Seriously, I want to know the answer. “
The great Power of Attraction People
make a big deal out of you attract everything into your life but very
little time is spent on what message you are really sending out to
the Universe. Every Magician, Mage, Druid or Witch knows that if the
message, spell, working or 'prayer' isn't consistent with the
person's life and personality, you are wasting your time.
Most people would have answered my
question with one simple statement: property values.
When we set out to buy a home, we did a
lot of research and travel because we had never lived in Broward
County. One place we landed in one afternoon was Coral Springs. After
the “welcoming” committee had outlined their rules for living in
their city, I told them that if I wanted to live in Nazi Germany, I
would have moved there. But what about property values, they whined.
I suggested a nice dark place for them to put them and left. I mean
really, aside from telling me how many shrubs, what color my house
had to be, I couldn't even park my pickup truck in my own driveway
because it might impact my neighbor's property values! They were not
impressed with my well maintained, paid for sedan because it was old.
When I was a teen, I volunteered to
repaint our swimming pool in Hialeah because the previous owner had
painted it battleship gray and that defined ugly. My father took me
to the pool store and we picked out a nice Caribbean blue. After I
finished, not only did I have a couple of gallons of blue left but
the previous owner left a couple of gallons of gray. I looked at the
ugly stained patio and said, how about I paint that, too. It was
concrete with a abstract block pattern etched in it. An hour later my
father wandered out and said I definitely needed a third color so off
we went and bought a gallon of turquoise. The pool guy quickly said
that was a horrible color for a pool and my father said it was the
accent color for the patio. You can't use pool paint on a patio! Why?
He opened his mouth and shut it. It had never been done, but pool
paint is designed to be slightly rough, withstand water and doesn't
fade in sunlight. I could never have done that in Coral Springs, but
not only was our patio the talk of the neighborhood but colored
patios sprang up all over the place. I discovered for the first time,
I actually had artistic talent. I started sewing and doing more
design.
After I found a strange real estate
agent who guaranteed he would find me the perfect home and he got
quite a list of requirements, I actually did some research into the
planned communities. I worked for a newspaper so research was pretty
easy. Imagine my shock when I discovered they had the highest rate of
vandalism, not crime like break-ins, but vandalism. You would pay a
fortune in taxes and repair bills because of vandalism which didn't
exist in the “poorer” neighborhoods. A few months later, he
called and said he had the home for us and took us over to see it. We
bought it and have lived here for over 40 years. I ran into him a few
years later working as a security guard and asked him why. His answer
was no one buys a home now-a-days.
Read that sentence a few times. People
buy real estate but they don't buy homes. They buy with one eye on
resale. What does that mean? It means you don't expect to make a real
home. You are biding your time to sell a piece of property.
Everything you do and attract is based on increasing the resale value
not making a home for yourself and your family. What does that say
about your family? It says that is temporary, too, until something
better comes along. Gee, I wonder why the divorce rate is so high?
Friends, you might as well live out of a hotel room. Your message to
the Universe is everything in my life is temporary. I have no plans
to put down roots and because of that, everything drifts in and out
of your life. There is no permanence and then I get to hear you wail
that you have no real friends. Of course you don't. You don't have
anything real in your entire life. You haven't built a life. You have
created a temporary drama.
Of course the vandalism rate is high in
these communities. The kids know they own nothing. They are just
renting and paying property taxes. They can't even plant a fruit
tree in their front yard. They can't even paint the house a color
they like. They have no roots and if they don't really own anything,
what do you expect: RESPECT? If they don't own anything why should
they respect something you really don't own? Why should the Universe
send you a partner for keeps when your entire life is one constant
move up another step and leave the old behind?
Think about the message you are sending
the Universe with your life before you make requests because it will
answer in kind. You attract what you are.