A Letter About Finding Peace (Even When Your Mind Won’t Stop)
Dear son,
Some days, my mind feels like a storm I can't outrun.
I wake up full of ideas — good ones, bad ones, wild ones — and before breakfast, I've already mapped out three different lives I could be living if I just had the energy.
It's exhausting.
And it's tempting to think there's something wrong with me because of it.
But over time, I've learned something that helps, and I want to pass it down to you:
You can't stop your thoughts... but you don't have to listen to them, either.
Your mind will work non-stop, day and night, awake and asleep.
That's a blessing — you need it.
It keeps you walking, talking, driving, dreaming, building a life.
But not every thought deserves your attention.
Some thoughts will lift you up.
Some will tear you down.
Some will encourage you to grow.
Others will try to convince you you’re broken beyond repair.
Don’t believe everything you think.
I once bought a T-shirt that said:
"Meditation is not what you think."
At the time, I thought it was just a clever joke.
Now I know it's the purest truth.
Meditation — real meditation — isn’t about forcing your mind to be quiet.
It's about noticing the endless parade of thoughts without getting pulled into the parade.
It's about finding that quiet space behind the thoughts.
And I want you to know —
I’m still learning this myself.
I haven't mastered quieting my mind.
Some days, I sit down to meditate and all I find is more noise.
But even then, just noticing the noise is a small victory.
Even sitting with the chaos, without running from it, is its own kind of peace.
That space — that stillness — is where your real power lives.
The more you can step back and watch your thoughts instead of chasing them, the more freedom you'll find.
You don’t have to obey every thought.
You don't have to fight every thought.
You can simply... notice.
And then, let it float on by.
If I had a son, I’d want him to hear this today:
You are not your thoughts.
You're the witness to them.
And the sooner you realize that, the sooner you’ll find peace, even when your mind is spinning at full speed.
Love,
Dad (Fred Ferguson — GeezerWise)
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