So what is my most prized possession? It has got to be my mind for if I lost my mind, I would be an empty person!
This has been the most difficult lens that I have authored to date. Why is it so difficult? The Giant Squid Summer School assignment for the second week was to create a lens on our most prized possession -- to take a look around our house and find that one thing that is most meaningful to us and to write about it. I took this task to heart and started to think, "what is my most prized possession?" When hubby got home, I asked him. You know what he said? First he said it's my computer as I am attached at the hip to my computer. Next, he quickly said that he was my most prized possession. Hmmm, perhaps!
But as I progressed into dream land that night, I realized that although I probably could name a few tangible prized possessions, the most important 'possession' would have to be my mind! "For, what else would matter in the world if I were to be of half a mind or worse yet, to lose my mind? If I were to lose my mind, I would be an empty person, an empty soul." --JaguarJulie
What's on your mind is probably on my mind too!
Which of these is at the top of your mind?
I have a lot on my mind these days!
What more would you expect from a WAHWW?
Probably because I am a WAHW -- a work at home workaholic and thought of as a WAHWW -- a work at home wonder woman, I have lots on my mind! I just couldn't imagine how I would balance my life if I were to lose my most prized possession -- my mind!
Have you given this any thought? You go about your day like the previous day, doing your job, interacting with friends and family and your boss. You are constantly pulled here and there and trying to meet all your obligations and be a responsible person. But what if you weren't able to keep up with everything? What if it got to be too much? What if you found yourself in the predicament of losing your mind?
I'm not trying to get too deep here -- to start waxing philosophically -- but just being thankful for what I have! Sure, I have worked just as hard as the next guy to get to where I am today. I've been lucky for the most part to be a healthy person. But, I wasn't given anything on a silver platter! I worked very hard to be who I am and to be where I am today. I believe in a good honest day's work. I don't believe in coasting through life.
And, it is probably because of my strong work ethics and sense of honesty that I am sitting here thinking how grateful I am to have lived this long and to have accomplished what I have.
"For, what else would matter in the world if I were to be of half a mind or worse yet, to lose my mind? If I were to lose my mind, I would be an empty person, an empty soul." --JaguarJulie
"My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me." --Many People!
What's on my mind these days? The Journal of the Traveling Squid!
I am thankful to the wonderful participants who have spoken their mind.
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Travel is on My Mind -- Some cool books!
I love to travel -- it soothes my mind.
What's on My Mind -- Musically Speaking that is!
How about some background on my mind music.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." --Dr. Seuss
What's on my mind these days? Why Pug the Cat of course!
My heart goes out to Pug, our sick cat, who is suffering with vestibular disease.
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Communicating with our animals is on My Mind -- Some cool books!
Is your pet psychic -- find out.
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." --Mahatma Gandhi
What's on my mind these days? Why all those Country Club Cats!
Trust me, balancing all these cats is a full-time job.
Will this ever end??...
What About Me?
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Understanding the country club cats is on My Mind -- Some cool books!
Connecting with your cat, do you know how?
What's on my mind these days? I've been thinking of my grandparents!
I'm into genealogy and have done research on the Nagy family name.
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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." -- Mark Twain
Age and getting older is on My Mind -- Some cool books!
There's a cool book on Shakespeare's mind.
What's on my mind is surely on your mind!
So, what would you do?
What would you want If you were to lose your mind?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byI'd want to continue on the best that I could!
ElizabethJeanAllen says:
I teach so I lose my mind on a regular bases. Keep looking and you'll find it again...or not realize you lost it in the first place.
Posted July 23, 2009
BigGirlBlue says:
Those who have lost their mind live well. At least that's what the voices have told me.
Posted June 22, 2009
C-Joy says:
Losing my mind hasn't slowed me down much anyway, so I would continue on!
Posted June 21, 2009
I'd want to call it a day and greet St. Peter at the pearly gates of Heaven!
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I would like to think that by the time I lose my mind, that I will have achieved all of my dreams and desires. If that were the case, I would be more that happy to pull the pin and call it a day. If not, then it doesn't really matter, because the mind will be lost, and there will be no one home to realize it.
Posted October 03, 2009
Blonde_Blythe says:
Time to move on to a better life. I'll choose heaven over being a vegetable who has no control over oneself any day of the week! :-)
Posted July 02, 2009
KimGiancaterino says:
I watched my strong-willed grandmother's mind and personality deteriorate, courtesy of Alzheimer's. Not the route I'd choose to go.
Posted June 27, 2009
TheGreenerMe says:
Without a mind, I would call it a day. Then again, would you have the mental capacity to call it a day if you were to lose your mind?
Posted June 23, 2009
Mind you -- some meaningful quotes to boggle my mind and yours!
Feel free to vote and add any inspirational mind quotes -- famous or yours. ;)
"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst." -- Lin Yn-tang
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"Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate." -- Alexandre Dumas Père
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." -- Vincent van Gogh
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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood." -- Chinese Proverb
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ~ Eric Hoffer
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." -- Douglas Adams
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Understanding the mind and writings of Mahatma Gandhi is on My Mind -- Some cool books!
Stimulate your mind with the teachings of Gandhi.
Meaningful Mind Quotes -- It's a Twitter List of the Best
It's not just about me and my mind, but others and their minds!
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- You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need to use determination to still it.-Lester Levenson #quotes
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- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss #quotes
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- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss #Quotes
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- Reading Nietzsche's quotes. I have half a mind to call him Nisha to make things simpler for myself :D
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- You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Unknown #quotes
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- You can kill a lot of time if you really put your mind to it ... #benharper #quotes ... what else can I do?
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- "The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there." ~Moliere #healthy #quotes
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- quotes "It's simply all mind over matter. if you don't mind it doesn't matter." -Jimmy Santos http://plurk.com/p/120cab
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- "An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa." ~Madrianne Arvore #healthy #quotes
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- quotes Napoleon Hill - - Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve!
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- "Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.)" ~Juvenal #healthy #quotes
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- "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." #quotes
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- "An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa." ~Madrianne Arvore #healthy #quotes
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What's on my mind and the mind of many a Squidoo lensmaster -- Seth Godin!
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So, want to just say hi or tell me what is on your mind today? I know you probably have lots to say, so tell me about it. Unload your mind here! I don't mind. ;)
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- Heather426 Heather426 Jul 28, 2009 @ 11:54 am
- great lens, as always from you! And what a beautiful mind you have!
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jul 23, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
- Great lens! I signed up for the master's program but then went out of town for several weeks. I didn't build My Most Prized Possession lens but it would have been my eyesight. I need to read.
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- karmasherbs karmasherbs Jul 6, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
- I agree with mysticmama ... Great idea for a lens - And yes, my greatest fear is Alzheimer's as well.
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What's on my mind these days is keeping up with the internet!
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Minding my mind quotes -- Check these out!
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"Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind." --Author Unknown
My Mind is ... (XXV) by E. E. Cummings
... a big hunk of irrevocable nothing ...
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex
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nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming
something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings.
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