The power of the Human Brain!

Hey world :)

About time I wrote another post, and today is a joyous occasion, because yesterday I went to court, and I got a diversion. For the last couple of weeks I had been worrying about this court case coming up, it was stressing me out, it was putting pressure on my relationship with my lovely partner :( It was really starting to get me towards the end, right up until somebody mentioned that I would be getting a particular judge, who was notorious for being completely unreasonable (there are stories here of my brother and a close friend who got screwed over by this guy). All of a sudden, I remembered something that I have told other people all my life, YOU decide what YOUR outcome is going to be, suddenly my worries disappeared, I felt like laughing! I was in the middle of my family and friends, who expected me to take this matter very seriously, all I said was one little comment to my partner "I'll just have to stop myself from smiling the whole time" And she looked at me like I was absolutely nuts!

Maybe I was crazy, I don't know, but all I knew was everything was going to work out fine, I had spent too long listening to other people, and it had nearly got in my head, I had nearly given in to despair, but at the last minute I DECIDED; that I would walk out of the court that day a happy man.

You know what happened?

Suddenly out of nowhere, there was a different judge, not the one who screwed over a best friend and brother, but another man, a new judge! I nearly laughed my ass off, my lawyer then went into his speal about my early childhood, my achievements etc. Eventually the judge asked a question about whether we had applied for a diversion or not? Which of course we had, but the informant (police officer charging me) had refused to go down that path, Lo and behold, an hour later, I walk out of there with barely a slap on the wrist ($250 fine and a 6 month good behaviour bond) and most importantly, no criminal record.

I still sweated through the hearing, but I was actually kind of excited, (not that I ever want to go back there again) I learned a lot from this whole episode.

First, drinking is bad and can make a fool out of the best of people.

Second (and most importantly), I should not let anyone's beliefs influence my own so easily.

The world is your oyster! You can have ANYTHING you want! The only thing stopping you from achieving whatever you want is YOU. And last of all I want to quote (possibly misquote) something a good friend of mine said recently, and who also inspired me to start my own blog, "The only thing you need to change to be happy, is your MIND"

Peace and love to you all

Tom