Traffic in my Mind

As we grow, our problems get more realistic and more stressful. Tensions become part of our day to day life. It's just a natural fact and it spares none.

Why is the mind never quiet. I hear so many voices within...

They create lot of traffic in my mind. They end nowhere. They try to overtake each other. They try to prioritize between themselves. They create no room for silence and peace. They want to be attended to right away. They want to steal my sleep and smile. Too much of pressure. They want to control me. They spoil my day, my mood and my life. They make me behave like I have never known myself before. Errr... It's just suffocating... Am losing myself. 

I've read it somewhere that we magnify the problems and give a big picture to it, meaning the actual problem is only 20% of what we think it is. That's a relief to hear. Can someone find the magnifying glasses lying in my mind, who is solely responsible for the craziness?

I just don't want any of them. Can I just find a place where I can bury them so that they can never get out? Or can I just flush them out into the outer space?

Wait a minute. I am fighting with things virtual in my own mind. These are capable of only mental stress to me. Should I really be scared of them? What do I do with them? They mostly have no ready-made solutions. Even if there is, it's not going to be easily achievable. And, of course it'll take its own time. They want my attention. They are knocking my head and showing their presence. What do I do?

For once, let me ignore them and see... 
Wow...And they have started absenting themselves. Yes, it has...

My mind. I control it. I'll make room for what I want in it. Space for my ideas, space for my wants, space for my happiness, space for my peace. In brief, I create a space only for my own world. If I decide so, it is so... The rest can stay out of it.

Surprisingly the problems are actually getting solved, one by one, slowly, some because of my own positive effort towards it, without making a hue and cry about it, and some, over time. Some, no more look like a problem. 

It's life buddy, not a race or an exam. I don't need an A+ in everything or from everybody. I don't need to prepare a report card about myself. I don't need to show a statistical data of my successes and failures in all walks of life.

I give space in my mind only to useful things, things that are important to me, things that are necessary and worthy enough to find a place in my mind. 

Decide on the issues valuable enough, to put your mind on work, the rest need no notice; they'll just pass by. And the only person who gets to decide them is 'You'.

What's more important than 'do we wake up daily with a smile?'

With just me in my mind,
Shwetha