from the mind of critic-3/23/18

From the mind of critic: “When it rains, does it always pour? Does it ever sprinkle, raining just hard enough to let us know it’s still there? Does it ever snow, where the rain is colder but lighter, even if it comes down in blankets? Doesi t ever hail, where the rain freezes before it falls, in every size from a pinhead to a baseball? Is the temperature and ferocity of the rain subjective, depending on our background and life experience? CCR did a few songs about the rain, that weren’t really about rain. They used physical attributes of rain as a metaphor for societal chaos, negativity and violence. In that vein, have we ever asked ourselves, if we’ve ever seen the rain coming down on sunny days? If we’ve ever seen the rain, have we ever asked who will stop the rain, or do we just expect that a hard is gonna fall? When things go wrong, sometimes we get stuck in a trap of thinking things will always be bad, which causes things to get worse. Once we realize our perceptions dictate how good or bad something is, and if we look inside or outside for the answer, we’ll see our actions are controllable no matter how viciously we get pummeled. When it rains it pours is only true, if we always expect the worst. Realizing we’re the answer we’ve been looking for, prevents unrealisitic expectations that something will fall in our lap. The more we’re conscious of self talk, the more we’ll see others aren’t. Rembering rain is temporary, keeps our mind critically thinking.” 🙂

 

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