Do You Want To Bet?

By Joshua Clayton

Some of the greatest change in the world came about in "stupid" and unusual ways. So when I ask a question like "do you want to bet?" in my title, I am writing about the most unusual changes in existence happening in the most interesting ways. Think about this, then, if you initially cannot put your mind around the reality of drastic and genuinely original change. This is what status quo type realities and overt normality is really made for: Change.

In the book "Using Your Brain For A Change" author Richard Bandler uses the change factor I am writing about. He calls it the "instant swish", and a few other names, but it is the same factor in all the things he calls it, just plain "time for a change".

Last night my Mom and I had an argument over the laundry, and she kept singing "Only I exist!" every time I would come up with a counter argument and I responded with "okay, whatever, I will get it done" as my argument as I went about my way doing what needed to be done. I got finished with the laundry well and everything, but that got me to thinking about the realities I am mentioning in this article about change, that is how change happens: You have one argument, then a counter argument or a little back and forth, and then reason resolves it all in the form of change. Is that not how it always goes in one form or another, or do you want to bet that something different will happen?

Sometimes we wish it would go some other way than needing extreme change, but when it is time for change, it is time for change, right down to the need for an unstoppable revolution in whatever form it may take. Listen to the full Jimi Hendrix song "Castles Made Of Sand" with an intuitive ear and you will know exactly what I mean. The change could be a simple wake up call or seriously wild change for better or worse, but it happens indeed. In life, we all get one or another to wake us up to our "other selves", deeper mind and all of that. In fact, I end with a few of the lyrics of Jimi Hendrix to further underscore my point:

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually."

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.