Intention and Manifestation

I've been playing an old game called Deadlock lately. In this game, there's an alien race called the Cht'cht. Whenever they send you a message, one of the random voices that gets played is this polyphonic female voice saying...

"Here, read this."

This is a blog post by one Steve Pavlina. He blogs on all sorts of self-improvement and growth topics. Some of it is too new-agey for me, but over all I like his stuff.

Go read it, since it's tasty but it makes a lot of sense. I'm not (but that may change) doing it as deliberately as he proposes but I've found myself doing it unconsciously, now that I think about it.

For instance, I want a more active social life with people who make me feel empowered, inspired and whole. I've recently been examining getting a subscription to NetFlix. It wasn't until I read that article that I finally saw something of a connection...

In my experience, a fair majority of shared culture of my generation is bound around movies. That and video games. However, I don't watch many movies and that comes up pretty often. It's rare that someone says, "Oh have you seen movie X?" and I get to say, "Yes." That, and I know I'm an analytical kind of guy and I would have great fun discussing a movie in detail.

So, although sign up for NetFlix never entered into my mind as a actionable step to growing a better social life, yet my brain was like... "You should go do this. You can afford it. It makes sense."

It certainly isn't a sudden and passionate interest in movies but there is an undeniable urging for me to do so. It makes sense that it may be my subconscious's attempt to give me more interesting things to talk about.