Thursday February 25 2016  LEFT BRAIN-RIGHT BRAIN

Isn’t it wonderful how God created every individual so unique?  And for some reason it seems as if God’s sense of humor is to allow opposites to fall in love and to live together as husband and wife under the same roof…for 43 years!  And we are still together!

Tonight, I again asked Dave if he might have a topic for me to write about.  He started sharing his ideas but they went right over my head.  I could make neither heads nor tails out of what he was explaining.  Or for that matter, why he was explaining what he was explaining. When he was all finished I simply asked my question again, “Do you have a topic idea for my blog?”  He looked at me exasperated!  I looked at him perplexed.  His mind, and my mind, are two polar opposites.  His brain is orderly, compartmentalized, and full of facts and figures.  My brain is full of imaginative thoughts, artistic ideas, and full of sunshine, flowers and sentiment.  I wouldn’t know what to do with a brain like he has. I guess his would best be described as a left brain and mine as a right brain.  I suppose we can’t both be right.  If we were both like me our house would be even more topsy-turvy, we’d never get to our destinations on time, and we’d probably have way too much fun.  If both of us were left brained I think things would be a bit boring, uncluttered, and all the walls would be painted brown.  But, we would probably always get to our destinations on time.  YET SOMEHOW, WE GET ALONG GREAT TOGETHER!

I need Dave to be just who he is, solid and staid, while balancing the check book to the penny.  He needs me too.  He needs a little of my spontaneity and creativity, as well as my willingness to hand over my check book for him to balance.  However, rarely does it balance.  It’s close sometime, but there is always something I wrote down incorrectly.  That is why he does the figuring.  I can do it (if I have to), it just isn’t something that comes naturally to me.  And that’s why I do all the art projects. 

And we know God created us different for a purpose.  He brought us together for a purpose.  And He loves us both just the way we are.  And I think the best thing I can do is to just try be the best “me” that I can be.  And the best thing that Dave can do, is to be the best Dave, that he can be.

Today a young woman said to me she wished she could be more like me.  I told her no, you should just try to be the best YOU, you can be.  And I believe that is what each person should try to aspire to.  It doesn’t mean we can’t do some things to change if we know we have areas in our lives that need improvement. There is always room for change.  But the change should be, not to aspire to be like someone else, but aspire be, the  very best YOU, you can be!

I never did really get a blog topic from Dave, but somehow I wrote something anyway.  Short and simple.  And because of living out of the right side of my brain, it probably doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to all you left brainers out there.  I send you my sympathy.

HOPEFULLY IT’S A SANE BRAIN

By Kathleen Martens

February 25, 2016

Left brained, right brained.

We each have one brain.

And the thing that really counts,

Is hopefully it’s a sane brain.

Each so different

From the other,

Be it friend

Or a brother.

No matter all the millions,

Each person unique.

Each brain on its course

To pursue and to seek.

The Republican debate is coming on and I look forward to joining Dave in the living room so I can watch to see which candidate is going to shoot himself in the foot tonight. 

Good night and God bless you.