Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs

-- The GiRL


What if I get shot through the wall...by the neighbor...while I’m sleeping?

Your brain needs another outlet for creativity when this is the thought you have at 2:00 am. Yes, I asked my husband that question while sleeping three weeks ago. Then I wondered, well why?

Is it monotony that got the better part of me? The routine eat, sleep, and work? Or is it the fact that life and people are predictable? 

For example, I know every Sunday night my neighbor is going to have his drinking buddies over and blast the bed-shaking music until my “time-to-go-to-work-alarm” goes off the next morning. My neighbor may have a different routine, but his is as predictable as mine.

Maybe we have all gone Coo-Coo for Cocoa puffs. We have this sweet, sugary cereal of life that we know will taste good every-time we indulge a bowl. We are afraid to lose it because we do not know what else out there we will find. After all, if something  tastes that good we wanna hold onto it, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyfE4VZiUY&feature=related

If I wake in the middle of the night afraid I’ll get shot, my mind must be subconsciously saying: “The world is against you! Run away in fear! Hold onto that bowl of cereal because you may not find another one.” 

Living life on hold -- grasping on what I have now -- may cause me to lose the life I want to create. We cannot have the life of our dreams sitting on our butts waiting for it to happen. We have to go after it.

There are a lot ideologies in this world, and like in the above commercial (the link you may or may not have clicked on) the cocoa puffs song will try to take you away from something you love -- like dancing -- to move how it wants you to move. We may have our bowl of cocoa puffs and leave full but never satisfied. 

We do not want this for our lives. We need some outlet for our creativity. We need some real sustenance in this society. Our blog is our commentary and chance to make sustenance and play a new song. Sometimes we’ll look at our life and wonder why we chose to eat what we did that day, but after some time we’ll probably realize everyone needs balance and what they put in their meal is up to them. 

Apples, Oranges, Bananas, and Fudge Bars may make my balanced life. Don’t just eat someone else's cocoa puffs.