My Kingdom For A Filing Cabinet!
I’ve always been fascinated with office supplies. There are so many tools created to make my life easier and more organized. Some people get excited about walking around Home Depot. But I get excited just walking through Staples! So many post-its, highlighters, pens, forms and stickers!

I wish my emotions could use office supplies.

If I could, I would paper clip all of my “good” ideas together, write them on index cards and save them for later. In reality, they are scattered across my mind.

I would use an eraser, one of the big pink ones, to delete all of the negative messages I tell myself.

I would use rubber bands to keep a tight hold on my emotions. Sometimes they get the better of me and put me in situations I feel like I continue to pay for today.

I wish I had a file cabinet big enough to store all of my memories. As I get older and have more life experiences, I find that my ability to recall specifics is becoming less and less accurate. There are things that I want to remember forever, and sometimes the only way to do that is to put it in a file, label it in block letters, and pull it out when you’re ready.

I wish I had a ruler to keep my mind pointing in one direction. More often than not I feel like I protractor, wavering back and forth between right now, the future and “back there”. A ruler would keep me going in the right direction without allowing for any stray turns.

I wish I had a set of colored pencils big enough to add more color to my life. Today is a gray day, and I long for something greater than myself to reach down and fill in the blanks with something vibrant.

I wish I had a hole punch big enough to turn the excess paper in my life into colorful confetti. Confetti is so much fun to make, but a drag to clean up. So I guess if I had the hole punch, I’d also need to buy an industrial vacuum cleaner!

And finally, I wish I had a bottle of white out large enough to correct the mistakes I’ve made. White out doesn’t take the mistakes away, but it allows you to write over them. I could use a lot of “do overs”.