A Funny Thing About Serendipity

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The funny thing about serendipity is that just when I thought it was ok to be a nobody, the highly

esteemed staff of editors at The Urban Dictionaryinformed me they want to accept one of

mywordsinto their publicationThingsalways go the way they are supposed to when you employ

serendipity .Not the way I want , but the way they are supposedto go. The way things turn out

is always is better than what I expected .Thats why I was excited that one ofMy words (*aka

"todisms) made it into the urban dictionary Thats right, one of my words made it into The Urban

Dictionary

Messology:

v

Someone who is constantly surrounded by, or engaged in,a hot mess. A practitioner of

hot messology.

Even though the stripper wore her smart glasses to court and buttoned her blouse up to

her neck,the judge still saw through hermessology.

buy messology mugs & shirts

messmessolgisthot messologypractioner of messologyhot stripper messskankho

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To me it's like being nominated for anAcademy Award, or being inducted into the Urban Dictionary Hall

of fame (Im jus sayin). The timing was interesting; because I was not getting a lot of reads on my blog

other people were getting a lot more. I had to tell myself don't compare myself to other people. I'm not

going to get the same results as someone else because I'm not them. Thatswhen I had to be ok with

being a nobody in this world. That didn't mean just sit and do nothing. It meant be tod and approach

this whole thing about getting more people to read from a different angle....from a tod point of

view. Treat myself as though I'm the most famous person I know yet remain humble enough not to

know it. I also had to be thankful enough too able to see that I am doing what I do best. (Or at least what

I like to do) Write. As long as I can make my words leap off the page and take on a life of their own, I'm

doing what I do best. Anything less isn't. And thanks to the Urban Dictionary one of my words has life.

Now to write the rest of my life's script into physical reality.

If you remember a while ago, I looked myself up in the urban dictionary. No notWebsters. I'm sure

they wouldn't know how to define me( and besides ,only I can define me) I went straight to the source.

And definitely not Websters.TheUrban dictionaryof course, and looked up my name. I had a ball withall the todisms that were used to describe Tod. It brought me a fresh perspective and I gained a little

more insight into myself. I didn't have to be everything that was said ,after all these are definitions that

people have sent in, not psychologists labeling my todisms as a disorder. I could have fun with those

things as well as work on my shortcomings and make them assets and stress my positive . My

uniqueness had to be the motivating factor in all of this and the best way for me to express this was

through my writing. (That is what a todism is) Use all of that to be just who I am. It is things like that
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make my journey interesting. If you are taking the time to read this thanks for taking the trip with me. I

promise to keep it interesting.

What make the journey interesting is not just the fact that I'm on it or all the forks in the road. Nor is it

the stopping to smell the proverbial roses. It's about the people I come across on the journey. Since I'm

taking the road less followed their arent a lot of signs, only wisdom. Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the lord.........and he will direct your path. That is the only written map that I have. I believe the people in come

across are there for certain reasons. They teach me about myself. When they are inconsiderate or

unkind, rather than judge, I check myself. What happens is I see what I would look like if I behaved that

way. Then I take a moment and observe the situation through my eyes. I see it differently. I put me in

check and keep me there. I don't want to be practicing messology. Practicing principles keeps me in

alignment. Maintaining alignment keeps my focus on the road ahead instead of all the distractions. Ive

come to understand that we all evolve at different levels. Part of my own personal evolution is to create

the individual that I am becoming. Im creating a new placebo. Its called( get ready for it,) viraltod. I am

determined to make the better part of me spread like a virus throughout my thoughts, so that the side

benefits (instead of side effects) are more conducive to the outcome that I desire. I created it in mymind a while ago .I'm keeping my power words in my mind and telling myself I am those better things.

Im teaching myself to see myself the way The Infinite Handdoes. As a man thinketh , so shall he be." It

just so happens that I found something that reflects those very thoughts.

As a Man Thinketh is a literary essay ofJames Allen, published in 1902. The title is influenced by a verse

in theBiblefrom theBook of Proverbschapter 23 verse 7, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

The full passage, taken from the King James Version, is as follows:

"Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he

thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. The morselwhich thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words."

The passage seems to suggest that one should consider the true motivations of a person who is being

uncharacteristically generous before accepting his generosity - while in the title and content of James

Allen's work the passage is in a different context; In the Bible the passage is referring to another person,

and in James Allen's work the passage is adopted to primarily refer to the reader himself.

It is now in thepublic domainwithin theUnited Statesand most other countries. It was released the 1st

of October 2003 as aProject GutenbergeTextedition.

This book is written in terms ofresponsibility assumption.

The lyrics to the songGood Thoughts, Bad ThoughtsbyFunkadelicare loosely based on this book.

The book opens with the statement:

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
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And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,

Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:

Environment is but his looking-glass.

Chapter 1 starts with the quote fromDhammapadawhere effect of karmas is explained.

Quotes From As a Man Thinketh

Men do not attract what they want, but what they are. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty

that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will

grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them

your world will at last be built.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears.It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires -

and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves, theytherefore remain bound.

Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought. Right thinking begins with the words we say to ourselves. Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to himself. You cannot travel within and stand still without. As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man

of weak thoughts, can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into hischaracter have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of

chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err

Well I think I've found that road map. The instructions are written across my heart. Now when I come

face to face with what I've been searching for, I can pause and say
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