To be well adjusted <br />can be a terrible thing <br />for where am I to dream <br />what does not yet exist <br />if I am only focused <br />upon what currently is? <br /> <br />And where in this <br />is to come to be <br />Creativity? <br /> <br />It can be a terrible thing <br />to be adjusted <br />because the mind <br />becomes hard-wired <br />to only what we <br />have personally experienced- <br />when I am out to discover <br />what is different from me? <br /> <br />No small thing this: <br />sailors die on the open sea <br />because their hard-wired minds <br />think that they need to find land <br />for fresh-water <br />making them forget <br />that they can catch fish <br />and drink. <br /> <br />Adjusted means <br />thinking like all the others think <br />knowing they will punish those <br />who dare to utter something <br />different from the orthodoxy. <br /> <br />Takes a strong mind <br />and character <br />to really think <br />differently <br />from what the others <br />keep <br />saying you <br />should think. <br /> <br />Protect that brain: <br />don't let the others <br />fill it in <br />for you, <br /> <br />find your own stuffing <br />to put in there <br />after all <br />you have to <br />all your life <br />live with it. <br /> <br />So open up <br />the Brain-Door <br />spend at least <br />five hours <br />a day <br />day-dreaming <br />that is how the Brain <br />wards off <br />Brain-Stuffing. <br /> <br />This what Einstein did- <br />five hours a day <br />you can see <br />how good <br />he did.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/well-adjusted-don-t-be-brain-stuffing/
