Chapter 2 in the Works!

Well...today I had the day off from work so I did a little cleaning at home and I got a good start on Chapter Two of the book. It's funny how things that are going on in my head from life are starting to creep into the book now. I told you yesterday that I was reading the book The Power of Now, which by the way was written by Eckhart Tolle. Silly me! I could have just looked up his name on Amazon.com yesterday, for crying out loud! But hey...if I could wring just a drop of humor from the situation, I suppose it was worth it. I guess I'm not as techno savvy as I would like to pretend to be. Oh well...as Mr. Tolle tells us, let's not let our egos get the best of us!

Anyway...where was I? The book...yes...the book! I open Chapter Two, appropriately enough, by examining these ideas of past, present and future which, as it turns now, is very appropriate to this part of the story as it fast forwards a few centuries from the last chapter. Those eleven gardens. They can be so mischievous! Okay...that probably doesn't make too much sense to you now, but as I share more of the concepts of the story with you, hopefully, it will become more clear. I remember, I used to have a composition teacher who would scold us for usually the word hopefully in our writing. She would always scribble off to the side somewhere in big red letters, "KEEP HOPING!!!"

But I digress...again...when you're doing a story that transcends the ideas of time and space as this one does, it really puts a different perspective on just how the power of now actually works. I mean, if you were suddenly plopped from like, say, the 16th century (I never actually make it quite clear in the story which century Bradley Lore was actually born in. This was quite deliberate on my part. It's gives me a little more leg room to work with. If I ever do get finished with the tale, I'll probably nail down a time frame more...if it's important) to the 21st century, your concept of now would be radically altered, as young Bradley's is as he finds himself going through his adolescence in a world unlike any he's ever known...with no memory of his childhood from centuries before. Perhaps that's why we open this chapter with our hero going to see a shrink.

Makes sense...sorta.
I just read Chapter Two of the Power of Now mini book and it talks about fears. Fear...something I am very familiar with. Fear...probably the main reason I am where I am today. I let my fears of the future get the best of me. According to Mr. Tolle, most fears are based on events that may or may not happen in the future and most are totally unfounded. Thus, we should let go of these fears and again (say it with me, folks) concentrate on the power of now!
I realize that, being the neurotic little waif that I am, that he could not have been more right on target with this advice. I do need to let go of all my silly fears that the voice in my head is feeding me and just live already, by golly!

But I do have to wonder. Aren't some fears a good thing? I mean...I'm sure that Mr. Tolle, with the amount of success he has had with this book and everything, has probably put back quite a little nest egg for his future, wouldn't you think...savings account, bonds, 401k and the like. I'm sure he's not spending it all in the now...so, hmmm...seems to me that there's gotta be some fear there, don't ya think?

And I know that, sometimes, that fear has actually been a good motivator to get my out of some jams. I mean...for example...if I were standing in front of a speeding bus, I'm sure that I would want to have some fear to motivate me to jump the hell out of the way.

But that's just under certain circumstances that I guess are more of the now than of the future. But I get his point and I am damn sure going to try to be a lot less fearful in the future. We'll see how that goes...