Is it possible?

[MeZergy]

F_T
I have bad thoughts too about close, close friends, but I dare not speak of them. I don't know how to fix them... I don't even know why I replied now!

I think it's possible though... My friends are pretty close compared to my strange thoughts and now our relationships are falling apart because of it... [] I try so hard to fix them...

[panabelle]

Hmmmm...I always find myself thinking of what I'll do in the worst possible situation. Like, I'll be out on a walk thru the neighborhood and I'll see a couple of older teenage guys walking down the street, coming towards me. Immediately, I start calculating (in my conscious mind but not on purpose) what I'll do if they try to fight me, if they have weapons, if they try to push drugs on me...etcetera. Doesn't stop until the "threat" passes. I'm always doing it. But I've never really worried about it, it always seems like a back-up plan. It's kind of odd because I'm always a really optimistic person.

But I wouldn't worry about the things happening just because you thought of them. My parents would have died in a car crash, my little brother taken away by Social Services, my uncle killed by a burglar, and my cousin and I kidnapped if those tings came true. [|)] I've learned to just let those thoughts progress and then say, "Ok. It's possible. But odds are it won't happen."

[Anonymous]

I've had similar feelings before. But I know somehow that everything is going to be alright in the end. Lately I get feelings of worldwide doom. Strange, because I believe the Appocolypse is still a couple thousand years away.

[MeZergy]

The appocolypse a thousand years away? Sheesh, I always think it's tomorrow! But I know where I'll be when I'm blown up [|)]

[Fat_Turkey]

Hey guys thanks for the feedback. I guess if those thoughts did affect things in a big way I'd be dead by now. But then again maybe they work against you in a lower way? Like how MeZergy's relationships are falling apart? Coincidence? Possibly...

Later
-FT

[Anonymous]

Fat Turkey, it's the little things that make the big differences. My kung fu teacher told me that when he has a bad feeling about one of his friends, he calls them to make sure they're okay. He said he had a friend that always talked about killing themselves, and he used to get that feeling a lot with this friend, until one day he ignored it and they killed themselves. I guess what I'm saying is, if you have a strong enough bond with someone, you probably know whether they're up to no good or whether they're in danger. By calling them within a day or so, you can become aware of how frequent your feelings are right. Do not expect that bad things will happen. In fact, expect that GOOD things will happen. But if you do get that feeling, call your friends and make conversation, ask them how they're doing, etc.

[Fat_Turkey]

Hi.

I was recently having horrible thoughts of people close to me being killed in horrible ways. The worst of all was the fact that a lot of these situations were incredibly possible, like my girlfriend crashing in a glider at her Air Training Course, which she's at right now.

I keep thinking that I mustn't expect bad things to happen because then they will. Is this true? I mean I keep seeing all my relationships with people going up with smoke mainly because someone says something bad about what I apparantly did but I didn't. Spreading lies basically. And whenever I try to fix those relationships it gets destroyed. But I thought, "is this what I really want???" Is it true that that sort of expectation of bad things to happen will just reinforce their chances of happening?

I don't know how to explain it. Maybe we passively program our subconcsious into making those bad things happen, maybe it's some big Karmic whatchamadoohicky (I don't know ANYTHING about Karma, by the way[]). But whatever it is I don't want any of this to happen!

Maybe it's just paranoia? Or is that statement just a way of suppressing my subconscious "wanting" of these bad things to happen?

Later
-FT