For example, in high school, I would do homework, not for the fun of it, not to complete the assignment, and not for learning either. I would complete the assignment simply to have it off my mind, to be at peace with myself. While doing the assignment I would place all of my effort into the task, so that I would not be agonizing over it later. A job done poorly is the same as not doing it in the first place in my head.
Perhaps this was borne of my childhood growth, perhaps my parents' rebukes hit me hard, and that has driven me to always been doing things just to relax. It is possible I lived in fear of others disapproval at what I was doing. I might have been mischievous in my younger years, which caused me to tread lightly around my relations with others. Whatever the cause, it is who I have become.
Another aspect to this name I truly enjoy is the hyphen. What a delight-full way to separate a word into two, and change the meaning enough to emphasize the target of your explanation. My mind, like many minds, is full a great portion of the time. It is busy with the concerns of everyday living. And it is filled with thoughts, theories, assumptions, plans, reactions, worries and statements.
It seems I have become a giant book. I use some of the pages often, those pages become torn, tattered and stained. Other pages are bright and barely used; and I place new ones in often. The pages that become tattered and soiled are the ones I eventually discard. Some of these easily spotted pages are the sayings I always seem to use. "Be right back" for example, is a classic statement people use in order to portray the longer thought. "I've got to go, but I will come back here at some time in the (near) future." that page is tattered. I replace the page with a different one, perhaps of an old nature like, "I shall return." I might go to a more modern approach, "See you on the flip side." I am an advocate of the older returning so I often will go with "I shall return."
With my heart and mind topped off with peace, and with my mind growing like an ever-expanding book. I am content in life. Thus the title "Peace-full Mind."
