Rita on communicating with self

Communicating with self

From DeMarco, Frank. Rita's World Vol 2: A View from the Non-Physical (Kindle Location 2104). Rainbow Ridge Books. Kindle Edition".

(Q) Miss Rita, I hear you ready to come in, at just 6 AM, after I have been writing to myself for half an hour.

(A) It is the writing to yourself that I wish to remind you not to overlook.  One pitfall of regular communication with others is that you may neglect to communicate with yourself.

(Q) Thoreau said it long ago, something like, "Depend on it, the man who walks away from the post office with the most letters hasn't heard from himself in a long time."

(A) An overstatement, perhaps, but a pointed one, and obviously it resonated with you, enough that you remembered it well enough to be able to paraphrase it.  But it is not enough to be able to quote wisdom; not enough even, to agree with it.  You must life it, or what good is it to you?

(Q) Guilty, your honor.

(A) Of course, this is not just for you.  That would come as a private communication, for you are not required to say everything that happens to you, any more than one can be required to give out every thought that occurs to him or her (not that it would be possible, in any case). But you in your role as exemplar/encourager of this new way of expanding one's life experience are, therefore, ...

(Q) Lost the thread. That was going to be an involved sentence.

(A) I merely point out that you can teach easiest by setting out as example what happened to you.  Not that you need to be persuaded about it, that's what you have been doing right along, since Muddy Tracks.  The point is, what happens to one might happen to another.  One person's temptations, opportunities, insights, pitfalls, serendipitous occurrences, may serve as inspiration to another, only it is important that such experience not be prettied up or glorified or made "glamorous" - and such reporting happens to be right up your alley.  Of course, I say "happens to be", and smile, for of course that was all part of the plan.