How To Escape our Deep-Set/ Engrained Thoughts

   We are all born with a blank slate. Our road map is literally barren terrain, untreaded on. As a completely pure and innocent child, environmental circumstances, and childhood experiences, teach us how to build and form the "roads" on our barren terrain, our clean slate.
   As we begin to tread these familiar roads more and more, mostly out of habit and comfort, the roads become engrained deeper, deeper, and more distinct. As an adult, we almost have to "rewire" our brain, to try new paths, to escape what we have become so accustomed to.
   I know that it only gets harder the older that we get. It is sad to see older, mainly middle-aged people or older, who are so "set in their ways that is almost like trying to turn a train full-speed ahead and make it do a full 180%.
   The message is simply this... the younger you are, the easier it is to save yourself from a mental imprisonment where only you hold the key. But the only thing constant in life is change, and CHANGE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE, no matter what your age.
   So even taking a different route home from work than you usually do, or putting on one sock and one shoe, instead of both socks and then both shoes, is good mini-steps to rewiring the deep-set roads already formed in the brain. The older and wiser one gets, the more they realize that they really know nothing at all. Life may be a constant struggle, as it is for all of us, but with a little perserverance and openmindedness, we CAN always improve ourselves!!!