Brain Wackiness - In Which Your Heroine Wins a Card Game and Finds More Puppies Running Around Her Consciousness
Last night my boyfriend and I played a terrifying card game of speed and death. Okay no one died but it’s a fast game.
My boyfriend has been playing this game since childhood, I have been playing it for about five months (fun fact, he is also a couple decades older than me, so that is a LOT of experience).So he always wins. Every time.
The game is lightning fast, with a lot of bumping into eachother as our arms flail to rearrange cards into new patterns. In that way it is kind of like the Dance of Shiva.
Which might explain why, after doing a morning Shiva Nata practice, I finally won the game! I don’t know, do you think that’s a stretch? Was I just due for a win, or was it the wacky brain training? I totally attribute it to Shiva Nata. I felt very present the whole time, and I didn’t get mesmerized or overwhelmed by the speed as my momentum built.
Then I started telling my boyfriend about my realization this morning that my fear is a yappy dog. And he said, “Well, you are strong like a Great Dane, too. And you are letting that little dog boss around a big one!”
And then we realized that there is probably a whole pack of dogs in my brain. My sense of humor is a pug and my intelligence is a border collie and my sense of style is a poodle and my love is a pit bull.
It’s true though, the little chihuahua is bossing them all around and they don’t know what to do. They have huddles and try to figure it out, “Should we tell Human Resources? Should we tell his mom? He just won’t stop yapping about all these ‘emergencies’ that we are fully equipped to handle! It’s annoying and then we start to believe him. And then we can’t get anything done because he has us under his spell!”
