The Power of Positive Thinking Continues

Earlier in my blog, I wrote about the power of positive thinking and how one ultimately attracts what they think.  Yes, its modern day philosophy.  This short post is about how it happened to me again.  I thought about something ...waited...thought...waited...thought about it more...waited...and then BOOM it happened.  Some examples can be on a grandeur scale like meeting a soul mate; others can be much smaller like getting a maroon down coat.  Today's example happens to be quite small but meaningful nonetheless.  In order for me to give you the full value of this story, I need to write about why a bottle of perfume would mean so much to me.

I'm very particular about perfumes.  To be completely honest, I've been using the same J-Lo perfume for the past eight years.  I chose this scent maybe because an after-Christmas sale on gift-set boxes makes the bottles pretty cheap.  And I like getting things for cheap.  Other perfumes have come into my life.  Like this one time in Victoria Secret, I bought a travel-size "Sexy" perfume in order to use my "Free Underwear With Purchase" coupon.  Or this other time, my best friend told her mom to buy me Harajuku Lovers "G" perfume.  And more recently when I purchased Harajuku Lovers Jingle "G" 50%-off during an after-Christmas sale.  For the past three months, I've been cautiously rationing squirts of this almost-all-gone bottle of perfume.  With every spray, I thought about how expensive good perfume is and how cheap I am to actually buy it full price.  Today, I finished off the bottle of Jingle "G" and thought about how I should rebel and also stop wearing deodorant if I was indeed too cheap to buy perfume.

The story continues at the home one of my students.  She is two years-old and happens to love me just as much as I love her.  Her mother invited me over for a visit and to have dinner at their home (partly because it was my birthday last week, partly because she wants me to teach English to her daughter, and all because her daughter loves me).  After I arrived and slipped on some slippers, my student presented me with a bottle of Dior's J'adore perfume.  How lovely.  I'm only dedicating yet another post to this "power of positive thinking" personal stuff because I believe it to be true.  And if it happens again, I'll write about it.