It's all in the mind!

Every morning I walk into the town, a distance of just under a mile.  Sometimes my feet feel stiff, and I seem to lack energy (I do reluctantly classify myself as an old man).  The journey is something of a chore.  But suddenly I spot, walking in front of me about 50 yards away, the back view of a young woman of pleasing proportions and interesting movement..  Miraculously, my tiredness vanishes, my feet are willing and I speed up so that I can overtake her and see if she is as pleasing from the front as she is from the back.

Even after passing her, I still have that burst of energy right to the end.


Though in theory I know that my thoughts and desires control my actions more directly and more effectively than my will, it always surprises me when it happens so obviously.