The Window

Here is a novel that I have started writing:

The Window
A single rain drop, a single footstep would snatch her from her sleep, and the closing of a mailbox or the snip of a hedger would draw her attention from her studies. She watched people so closely she sometimes felt as if she was living their lives, or knew them personally, though they’d never spoken. She could predict people’s next actions, or sometimes if she was bored, plan out Mrs. Hendrickson’s predicted day activities, almost always right on target. She could tell you when Mr. Frier took out the garbage, depending on what mood he was in, and imitate the exact way little Paula Lou poured her puppy Skipper’s dog food on Mondays, as well as Wednesdays. If you asked what kind of flower was growing in Miss Turner’s kitchen window sill, she could easily tell you it was a bright golden sunflower or a miniature yellow rose bush, every other year.
Each and every person, family living in her cul-de-sac lived their lives so unobservantly, never knowing just how closely they were being watched. It was all a bit creepy, yet strange and magnificent in such a sense that I’m quite sure many of those neighbors would have enjoyed sitting down with her, and having her tell them all she knew about their lives. I’m sure she would have done quite well at a job of ‘Watch Woman’ and guarding people’s houses, or a secret agent letting the police in on every act of criminality in the city. Yes, she would have done quite well at those jobs indeed. But she had no need for work – she never did like associating with people, and in 1960 she inherited one of the biggest fortunes known to man.
Now a normal person would have spent this fortune on each and every pleasure they could imagine, filling their numerous houses with books and clothes and dolls of all sorts, being so greedy and selfish that pretty soon they wouldn’t be able to stand living with themselves. But no. This woman was much quicker and slyer to fall into such a trap as fame and fortune. She tricked old Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson, looking back at her on that filthy green paper and those chalky scraps of metal. Because she had a rare thing among people now-a-days – she had an imagination.
I’m not meaning to say that this woman never spend her darned money on anything, no. She spent it alright, but on books and antiques and strange pieces to build up her imagined mechanisms. She filled her little cottagey house with such things that would make you believe you were walking in a dream, beholding the wonders of a genius. You might say she was Einstein’s second cousin, or George Washington’s great, great niece – but you’d be wrong. Her ancestors were never spoken of by her, and she had removed herself from everything and anything to do with her relatives. Her father had been a carnival worker, as a fire-eating clown, and her mother had chose to stay home and learn to skip rocks on her pond and such things rather than go to school. They’d married after two days together, and after having a child, killed both themselves robbing a bank unarmed in broad daylight. Their baby rotted away in an old city orphanage for years, until her great-grandfather died riding his motorcycle off a canyon at ninety eight years old, after hearing that he would soon die of a painful family cancer. All of his money saved from winning the Olympics countless years in a row was given to her at the age of eighteen, and she didn’t share with any of her stupid relatives, leaving them to stop relying on other people for their livings. How she was so ingenious, nobody knew – but we figure that after so many generations of stupid, something clicked and an amazing baby was finally born.

The Strangest Secret

Many scientists and researchers around the world disagree on many, many things. However, there is one thing that they all unanamously agree on, and that is The Strangest Secret. The Strangest Secret states that you become what you think about. Let me repeat that, YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT. How? If you think about failure, you will fail. If you think about succeeding, you will succeed. Al you need to do is set goals and think about your success with these goals. Just like ships, humans need to have goals or destinations in mind. If you send a ship off with a captain and crew to steer the boat, and a sure destination in mind, the ship will likely reach its destination safely and successfully. Likewise, if you send a ship off without a crew, captain, or any destination, it will sink, or end up on some deserted island and rot away. This is the same with humans; we need to have a destination in mind, or else we will end up lost and deserted. But remember, YOU WILL BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT. Your mind doesn't care what you plant in it - you can plant a seed of failure, or a seed of sucess. No matter what you plant, your mind will grow it and give it back to you. Sucess, failure, or whatever it was that you planted. It even states in the scriptures that a man "shall reapeth what he sows". It's all how you think about things, set goals and work up to them. Think about all the differnt quotes of famous scientists or in the bible that state the same exact thing: YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT. In the bible it says that whatsoever a man shall believe it shall be brought unto him. Bruce Lee said “As you think, so shall you become.” Jim Rohn said “Success is what you attract by the person you become.” Henri L. Bergson said “Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”. There are so many quotes out there that state what's known as The Strangest Secret, yet hardly anyone knows about it. That's why its strange, and called a secret. I bet that if you walk down your street and ask every person you run into what the secret to sucess is, none of them will be able to tell you, not even if you walked up and down your street for a month. But this secret is a law, similar to the law of gravity. If you jump off of a building, you are always going to go down, never up. Same with this secret. There is no possible way that you can think of only failure and still suceed. There is also no way that you can fail when thinking of only success. And the way to this sure success is through setting goals, and working up to them, while always thinking and picturing yourself only succeeding. It is all so simple. The human mind is like the last unexplored continent of the world. There are so many possibilities, and you are sitting in the drivers seat. Are you just going to fold your arms, and let yourself drive into a ditch, or are you going to grasp the wheel with two hands and drive forward on a sure and straight path towards success? Its your choice. YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT.

^This is an overview of a CD I listened to called The Strangest Secret. This is just my summary and thoughts about the tape. ^