Unlike when you are playing a game like Minecraft, where the corn doesn’t rot even if you leave it for weeks, corn in your backyard would be eaten by bugs and eventually rot if you don’t cut it down and eat it.
There is cause and effect in life, and here are some other examples of it:
You overeat on cake; the effect is that you feel full, and you then have to wait a while before you will feel hungry again. The cause of feeling full is that you ate too much; the effect is feeling full, and you have to wait a while for that feeling to subside.
You fall over and graze your knee. The cause of the graze was that you didn’t tie your shoelaces and so tripped. The effect is the pain and having to wait for the skin to heal and the scab to fall off.
These causes and effects are what we observe about our body and the physical world. They are often different to what happens in video games.
There is also cause and effect in our hidden world, which is our thoughts.
What do you think about the world?
Do you see it that you miss out on things all the time, or do you see it that you get plenty of what you need, and the extra that you’d like, you get at the perfect time?
What you think about your world has an effect, which means there is power to your thoughts, just like there is power in your body, which enables it to move around.
There is a saying that goes, “smart people think before they speak, wise people think before they think”.
This is a reminder that thoughts are things, and just as eating too much cake or running around without tying your shoelaces has effects, what we think about ourselves and the world has effects.
This is good news! It means that if you wake up and decide to feel happy all day, and you stick to it, the result will be that you will feel happiness all day! WOW!!
“There is a kind of magic in you…” Miss Honey, Matilda