Lessons in Truth and Fiction.
Quote "Happiness is related to expectation. If you list your expectations and then compare
these expectations to what you have, the result is your level of happiness" Author unknown.
What is an expectation? A fictional, situation that you have imagined, anticipate and or desire
the events will occur the way you imagine them. (Complete Fiction and Illusion)
Fiction* 8) Freaking out over the lasagna size.
(A reaction based on Fiction - You are assuming/ imagining some injustice is being waged upon you,
again you feel victimized, you have concluded that your view point is completely correct and you act on your conclusion,
without knowing what really is going on. Basically you are treating your imaginary idea as real, how can something imaginary be real?
(Assuming and drawing conclusions from those assumptions is the most popular fiction on the earth today! Bar none.)
Instead of assuming that you were getting ripped off on the size of the lasagna,
you could have asked the staff member who was serving you "why the size difference?" And saved yourself all the hassle.
You need to realize in the moment that you don't know anything.
If you feel you don't know, simply ask or inquire. It will save you a world of hurt!
That way you don't fall into the trap of assumption.
You either know or don't. You cannot assume knowledge.
Fiction* 9) Thinking that the cafeteria staff should have let him know that food was portioned to weight and not size.
The word (Should) alone is Pure Fiction.
Should is another word for expectation. Investing in a particular outcome.
Some things are reasonable to expect while others are not.
It is reasonable to expect that when you turn on your water tap in your kitchen that, water will come out.
It is not reasonable to expect that at the horse races, the Horse Cotton Ginny who won
the last 3 races in a row, is going to win again on the 4th race!
Fiction* 10) Taking your doctors word for face value when he makes the comment,
"It is normal for your age to have back pain, just take some Advil."
How about doing some research for yourself on why you have pain in your back.
You think its normal to be in pain? Not the last time I checked!
Perhaps your body is trying to tell you something?
The fiction here is not so much as to what the doctor is telling you,
the fiction is more the fact that you believed him immediately without knowing
what is really going on, or doing research yourself and coming to your own conclusion.
Fiction* 11) You are intimidated by the officers authority.
Who gave this man in uniform authority over you? The Government?
The Police department? Your parents?
None of them did. It was you!
You gave the officer your power, by immediate assuming he has jurisdiction over you.
What does jurisdiction mean? - The territorial range of authority or control.
He doesn't. It's all in your head.
But if you want to give it to him, he will gladly take it!
It doesn't help that, it has been ground into your head since birth that you must obey a police officer.
(There is more to this, that I will get into later)
Fiction* 12) You admitted to speeding even though you weren't sure what had happened.
You failed to state the truth and question the officer's evidence, because of that,
you created fictional strategy on getting off an offence, you weren't even sure you committed in the first place, therefore backfiring!
Fiction* 13) You heard a man's voice on the phone asking for your wife, and you became suspicious.
It is fiction because you are letting your imagination get carried away,
imagining that something sneaky is going on. Which in reality you have no idea about.
Fiction* 14) You blow up at your wife for talking to her ex boy friend and saying she is going to meet him.
You treated your fictional, fantasies and suspicions as real events taking place thereby thinking you had valid reason to lash out at your wife.
Fiction* 15) You went and smoked a joint to calm down. In actuality smoking a joint does not really calm you down,
it only distracts you from the reality of the situation, by altering your perception of the current events.
It takes your attention away from the physical consequences of this world and engulfs you in a world of fictional relief or imagined bliss.
Fiction* 16) Fifteenth fiction, You took sleeping pills to fall asleep.
You need the sleeping pills, because your mind cannot understand the fictional events
in your life, your mind starts to worry and attempts to calculate its next fictional plan of action,
in order to achieve what it wants, or hide from what it perceives a threat.
Your mind goes into flight or fight survival mode as you scan over all of the circumstances in your life.
As you worry, adrenaline is pumped into your blood stream throwing your bodies hormones and nervous system into disarray,
preventing you from relaxing and falling asleep. But in reality all you are doing is contemplating fictional things
and fictional circumstances and treating them as real things and real circumstances.
Essentially you are living in your own fantasy world! Fictional World!
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