The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.  ~Julien Green

As I said in my previous post, the journey continues, and as in every journey, there is always the opportunity to get off track.  Here’s the thing.  You may not really know you’re off track, and imagine if you were a ship, and you were to be off on your destination from LA to Japan by just a few degrees.  That’s the difference from hitting Japan, and ending up in one of the poles.  The longer the journey, the further off track those small little tangents can take you if you’re not paying attention.

What got me off track?  Well my thoughts did.  I talk about thoughts being things, and creating your own reality, the Law of Attraction etc.  One thing you can definitely attract really quick, is more thoughts like the ones you currently hold.  Imagine hearing a song early in the morning, it doesn’t even have to be a beautiful song, in fact I would wager that more often than not when this happens it’s the most ridiculous song you can think of like “The wheels on the bus go round and round.”  You hear this song and it gets stuck in your head and you think about it all day long, as the day progresses it enters your consciousness with more and more frequency, you even find yourself humming it while waiting for the coffee to finish brewing in the break room.

What’s my point?  Well I love music, and I have been listening to the Soundtrack for the movie, “Into The Wild,” b Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam fame.  This is an amazing soundtrack, and I have been listening to it probably 2 times a day, and will even hum the songs while at work.  “So what?”  You are probably asking yourself.  Well let me post the lyrics to my favorite song on the CD, the song is titled “Long Nights.”

Have no fear
For when I’m alone
I’ll be better off than I was before

I’ve got this light
I’ll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall

Long nights allow me to feel…
I’m falling…I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I’m falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah…

I’ll take this soul that’s inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I’ll forever know

I’ve got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel…
I’m falling…I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I’m falling
I am falling safely to the ground

This is an amazing song that helps to sum up the true story, and travels of Christopher McCandless, a young college graduate who left society behind and ventured off into the wilderness of Alaska on a journey to find himself.  It is a very inspirational story, and I suggest you watch the movie if you have not had the chance, or pick up the book.

As I said, this is my favorite song.  I have listened to this song 60+ times in the last couple of months, have sung it over and over in my head as I worked.  Take a look at the first stanza, it speaks of being alone, and being better off than before.  Thoughts become things, and this song was my prevalent thought.  The universe doesn’t know that I don’t want it.  Why not?  You might ask.  Well if I tell you right now to not think about your car, the first thought that will come to your head will more than likely be your car.  So once again this proves how important it is to think of things we do want, think on things we want to experience.   As the weeks progressed, I became antsy, it was time for me to leave, I wanted to leave this all behind and just go, it didn’t matter where, as long as I was “better off than before.”

Work became work, life became hard, I started to attract all kinds of negative responses into my life, but I was conscious enough to come to my senses and realize it and started to work on forcing those thoughts back out of my head and replace them with thoughts of gratitude, and I can see things turning back around again, adn for that I am very grateful.

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