Inside our minds and hearts is where we go to meet ourselves. We go outside to meet someone else. After meeting someone, and being with them for a period of time, we’re said to be going out with them. We go out into the world to visit with friends, relatives, future friends, and acquaintances. We fall into deep conversations, or walk through rooms and listen to intermingling voices. We wander into our minds to think, create, daydream, and meditate. Daydreaming is often when our best ideas occur. We go out to coffee shops, concerts, museums, bookstores, and movies with ourselves and others. We open up our hearts and minds – to let in ideas, feelings, and experiences by reading books, watching movies, having conversations. We go inside ourselves when we take a deep breath, taking a moment to reflect on what we most want to do next. Upon reflection, we may decide taking a walk outside is our best course of action. Since we’ve discovered how changing our scenery changes our mind. Inside our minds are many voices and thoughts, either fitting effortlessly together, or seeming to be random and disconnected. Outside, it’s sometimes sunny, and at other times rainy. Both take place outdoors in the city, or in nature. It’s possible to travel deep inside ourselves while sitting still, or curled up in a window seat on a moving train. Inside our minds, it often seems as if rooms and staircases have been added on, to take us time traveling through visions mixed with imagination, to past and future destinations. Some days, we go outside to wander in the world – through farmer’s markets, under bridges and next to lakes and rivers. We share our inner world with others through conversations, letters, texts, notes, emails, drawings, thought bubbles, telepathy, and hand gestures. Out in the woods, we breathe clean and clear air, and move along paths leading to cliffsides or riverside views. Inside rooms, we sit, stand, or lie down – and write down our thoughts – connecting with words to people throughout the world, in ways that were impossible in past centuries.
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