I am careful what I let into my mind and I think for a mindset to totally change , you have to be careful what you listen to, what you watch, who you let into your head space and what you even gloss over.

My parents can send loads of forwarded messages on Whatsapp, just the way yours does. Inasmuch as most of the stories are not true, some are also scary and mostly negative! My mum and I are constantly bickering about this and I sincerely know that it comes from a place of care. The annoying thing is when you click the picture it automatically saves in your photo memory,  but if your phone is setup in a different way as soon as they send a message, it immediately saves into your phone memory, then one day out of the blues, you would just be going through your beautiful pictures and next thing you see something that almost make you drop your phone; a picture that must have been there the whole time but you did not know, especially when you did not set the feature that allows you click the message before it is saved, so even though you did not permit it, you also did not do anything to block those sort of pictures from coming in,you were passive and by being in a cordial relationship with the sender, you got a picture you did not ask for.

Isn’t that what we do with our minds? We sit in negativity, Watch negativity, gloss over negativity and we think it has no impact. It does! All of a sudden you would start having fears that you did not have, you speak and act from a place of fear and you are wondering ” how did I get this way?” Just like the pictures that loaded in your photo memory, that seemed out of place, some of us are neck deep in places we never thought we would ever find ourselves, like a domestic violent relationship that just happened or dating a married man or about to go on yet another abortion and we think we are unlucky but if we get right into it, we would find out it is because we did not set boundaries; just like when you don’t set the feature that stops all pictures from Whatsapp to save on your phone… Something has crept into your beautiful photo memory to soil it for you, something has crept into your mind to soil it for you. A little leaven…. So just be careful what you let into your mind, your space, set boundaries, don’t be passive toward your own life and mind. It is important!!!

Thank God for the delete button, thank God that once your mind has been corrupted by the wrong things or you have made mistakes you think are unpardonable, you can still walk away, it is not permanent, you just have to Delete it.