August 19, 2023

When Counting Your Chickens, Only Count The Real Ones

How many chickens are there?




I learned something about chickens, and reality, when I cared for our neighbour's birds for a week.

One should not count one's chickens before they hatch, or before you actually see them. In other words, confine your thoughts to what is real and in your hands.

So what was real? Three chickens, or two?

The good news is that I did not lose a chicken. 

The bad news is that I thought I did based on a fantasy chicken that was not in the coop, but only existed in my brain.

Turns out there were only two chickens to start with, seeing as they only have a small coop. I should have worked that one out.

For some reason I thought there were three, so when only two returned to the coop for that first night, my fake chicken caused some fake stress.

Argh! 

I sure was happy to learn I didn't lose a bird. They really are beautiful. And we got our first eggs just the other day.

From the two chickens.

Two.

Real.

Chickens.

I'm chalking this one up to a simple lesson in what's real, and how the brain can be a trickster.

I don't need to make up what isn't there, and believe something that turned out to be quite false.

It's bad enough that there is a whole class of psychopaths in the world right now trying to change reality with the power of their fantasies.

But figuring out my own brain, one chicken at at time, inoculates me against the make believe of those lusting after a full basket of power and control.

Because you know what? 

A lot of their chickens are not going to hatch. Their brains are playing games with them. And us, if we let them.

Know thyself. 

And know thychickens.




3 comments:

  1. RE "It's bad enough that there is a whole class of psychopaths in the world right now trying to change reality with the power of their fantasies."

    It is not just a reality "right now" but has been for centuries and millennia. Nearly all people just prefer to sleep and live in their fantasy world...

    And the fact that "a whole class of psychopaths" rule is only ONE part of the equation. The pack of leading criminals do not operate in a vacuum, and never have. There are 2 destructive human pink elephants in the room and they are MARRIED --- study the free essay “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room”... www.CovidTruthBeKnown.com (or https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html)

    The criminals in power are in those positions and do what they do ONLY because of the mostly willful activities, or inactivities, of the majority of self-entitled "good" or "compassionate" or "enlightened" or "religious" people --- the 90-95% of the herd.

    “Our current ‘state’ is the dictatorship of evil. We know that already, I hear you object, and we don’t need you to reproach us for it yet again. But, I ask you, if you know that, then why don’t you act? Why do you tolerate these rulers gradually robbing you, in public and in private, of one right after another, until one day nothing, absolutely nothing, remains but the machinery of the state, under the command of criminals and drunkards?” (from a White Rose Pamphlet, the 'White Rose' was a German resistance group fighting Hitler's Nazi regime)

    Isn't it about time for anyone to wake up to the ULTIMATE DEPTH of the human rabbit hole --- rather than remain blissfully willfully ignorant in a narcissistic fantasy land and play victim like a little child?

    Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible for humanity.

    And if anyone does NOT acknowledge, recognize, and face (either wittingly or unwittingly) the WHOLE truth THEY are helping to prevent this from happening. And so they are "part of the problem" and not part of the solution.

    If you have been injected with Covid jabs/bioweapons and are concerned, then verify what batch number you were injected with at https://tinyurl.com/ytthwrwm

    "We'll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime

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  2. Anonymous8/20/2023

    Glad you realized you weren’t really missing one! Ah, sweet relief. :) I find it’s always best to stay in today, with what’s happening now. It’s too easy to look ahead and freak out. Great post, as always.

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  3. The tale of counting chickens is a simple yet profound reminder of how our perceptions can lead us astray. Could you share more instances where the metaphor of "counting your chickens before they hatch" has been applicable in your life? Tel U

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