The noggin retreat and 'reflective pages'

It rained overnight, much-needed rain; I woke to a dim day, but one that smelled fresh and clean and was dotted with thousands of water droplets clinging tenaciously to every surface. I sat outside, sipping my morning espresso, enjoying some Vegemite on toast and performed my usual ritual of gratitude; Thinking about all the things I'm grateful for, like waking up.

The birds chirped and my lungs sucked in gulps of the cool and fresh morning air and it all felt quite peaceful and relaxed. Pictured you can see my back yard, some of it. I snapped this image, a frangipani bloom, and you can see the rain droplets clinging to it...However they won't last forever will they...Like most things in life there's a beginning, middle and end.

After some earnest sipping of coffee and chomping of toast I started scrolling through my steem-feed coming across a post by a very well-known and highly-regarded user which made me stop and think. It was a simple post around his thoughts of returning home after an extended time away and his relationship with his young daughter. The post was simply a collection of words, his thoughts put into words, and was written for his own purposes and benefit, not to solicit sympathy or gain an answer from an outside source.

Over the years of writing myself I've found great value in doing the same; Writing things down to coalesce my thoughts and make them easier to decipher. It allows me to collect my thoughts, bring them in-check from a spiralling mess of emotions and feelings, into clear and focused thought and in writing them down I find great benefit...It's an outpouring of my inner-most thoughts as such, and most often the words on the page seem to reflect clarity back to me...It's like the page, and my words on it, are a mirror of myself and through seeing myself there I find greater ability to navigate my thoughts, feelings and emotions, to balance, weigh and measure them more effectively. It probably sounds corny to you, but it works for me.

I suppose, in reality, it's the act of thinking through the thoughts and feelings in ones' head that brings so much benefit, not the fact they are on paper. It's a good strategy though, in my humble opinion, as our noggins are full of so much noise these days, in our modern and complicated information-loaded society...Retreating inside one's own mind to find clarity and thought is a valuable experience.

Taking time to noggin-retreat, to get inside one's own mind to order thoughts and emotions, is an important part of life and we all do it...It's called thinking...But we don't all take the time to write those thoughts out on paper, or digitally, which I feel can limit ones' progression towards resolutions, or simply clarity of thought. Here, on steem, we have a perfect forum to do so; A place full of like-minded people and a relatively safe environment to speak ones' mind.

How about giving it a go by speaking your mind in the comments below...Come on, you know you have an opinion.

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_{Image taken in my back yard with my Samsung S9 phone}