Thoughts DO become things

In an earlier blog I posted about TUT. The tagline of every tut email I receive is "Thoughts become things, so choose the good ones!". Sometimes the phrase will be repeating in my thoughts a while before I recognize it. Sometimes the phrase appears unbidden. Something to chuckle about usually.

However, yesterday, my son's father was dropping my son and I off to visit family with the intent of keeping my car and fixing a rattle.  Now, he has his own view of time which is starkly contrasted with my own sense of time.  I have a good balance between flow and responsibility but he is totally clueless.  I often refer to it as "S time".  I try not to judge him for it.  But knowing how sunday family visits go I was trying to stress to him the need to be prompt picking us up.  His responses to my urgings to "please be on time" were typical things that I know he says just to push my buttons so I ended the conversation with "let me put it this way, if you aren't here at 6 it better be because you are in the hospital somewhere".  He ended his part of the conversation with "or what?" and I just ignored him.

Sure enough, around 6 I was outside cleaning up the kiddie mess.  When I came in my dad said "S called.  Said he wasn't going to be here by 6.  Said he'd be here after he got his arm stitched up."

I immediately thought he was off, goofing with his brother, stuck in a mess or muddle with the car or what have you and the "stitches" comment was in snarky reference to my final comment before stepping out of the car.

But an hour goes by, no S, no follow up phone call.  I had no way to reach him so I just sat and brooded and my son got extra time with his grandparents (which can be both a good and bad thing).  At 8 I said to my dad "Did it SOUND like he was calling from a hospital?"  Dad didn't know (you know guys and how they do NOT converse on the phone).  So I called the 2 hospitals in the area that S's insurance covers.  He wasn't there.  Thinking my suspicions were confirmed and he was goofing off I was getting set to get in my mothers car and go ISO, telling myself I would if I didn't hear from him at 9.

Around 9 my dad started having pain, probably from wrestling with my kid but his "ouching" made me think of when he was last in the hospital, a local hospital I hadn't called looking for S.  So I called.  Found S.  He was indeed in the ER getting a chunk of his finger reattached.  YIKES!  Immediately "Thoughts become things, don't use them as a weapon" popped into my head!

S eventually came to pick us up.  Spent the drive home conversing about our sons day.  Once that topic was used up things got quiet.  I debated explaining to him TUT.  I, in an evil moment, thought of telling him his snarkiness about being on time brought on the injury :)  but in the end I knew he wouldn't get it so I just let it go.  Instead I spent the rest of the quiet drive home marveling how thoughts really do become things.  Then I started plotting what else I wanted to change.  I figured I'd start with telling someone I was going to win the lottery, then figure out the right thoughts to think on world peace, .... so I did have a problem getting to sleep last night with all the thoughts wanting to become things swirling through my head.

Choose the good thoughts :)