Who Owns Your Mind?

Who owns your mind?  Most of us will laugh instantly when we read this.  Why you ask?  Because we already, instantly know the answer.  Certainly not us.  We're like a rapid river. High tide. We allow people or circumstances ~ consciously or unconsciously, to drag us wherever they wants to take us.  Sound familiar?

Do you wonder why we do this?  We don't own our minds.  This and the ever-present ego which is at an all time in our non-sustainable lifestyles are high right now. More like false egos.  A result of not feeling too good about ourselves.  So we project our own self-inflated importance when we are so uncentered. We focus on OUR needs, OUR goals...Again, that is just not sustainable.  It can't be.  It doesn't work.  Not for the people we are becoming. It is a dead-end road.  A cycle. Until we suffer enough and are ready to change this.

When I was married, what seemed to matter was matter.  Certainly not me.  For way too long I allowed that until I didn't.  Sometimes I rue the lost years - lots of them.  Years when I was a drone, programmed by unconsciousness.  Missing the moment, missing the breath.  Missing myself.  Who was I?

Every time I catch myself floating down that river, either by myself, or with relationships that are not sustainable, I right the boat, grab and oar and redirect.  I don't always own my mind.  I do know the theory; I do not always apply it.  

Who owns your mind?