Friday, June 20, 2008

The Universe is my Playground

The trust we have for what we know to be true, is a powerful element in determining where we are and where we stay. Those who are willing to know that there is knowledge out there that we must find and understand and make a part of us, are constantly in motion, while those who feel they know all they need to know, express that in so many ways.

New ideas bounce off of some people, like a freshly inflated basketball off a wall. Don't try that around here, we already tried that years ago and it doesn't work. Ha!! No it did not work and yet how much of that was you and how much was the thing you tried?? You may never know, and probably will never care that you could have, had you only wanted change badly enough.

I know that my knowledge comes from the ever changing application of new ideas to old ones. I cherish the old ones, for they got me here, but I never feel tied to them such that a new one is not welcome. Some call that wishy washy, or unsure. I am not unsure about how I feel about a great many important things. I am however certain that there a myriads of points of view from which I have not yet seen the same things. Therein lies the importance of this. Two people can see the very same thing and have experiences worlds apart from each other, standing right next to each other. It is not the thing, or even the looking at it that is the reality you experience, but the glasses through which you see the thing, that makes it for you, an experience to treasure, or to ignore.

I could keep going for a long time, but will save some for later. My universe is spinning on.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Faster Pace Means "Sometimes You Just Need to Steer"

Life in the fast paced world we live in now, can at times seem like it is taking chunks out of us as it passes us by, but I like to think of it all as a refining process. It's like "life in a rock tumbler." It is inevitable that some rough edges will get knocked off and in the end we'll be a smoother version of ourselves, even shinier. The problem for many is that they misunderstand the bumps and grinds as misfortune and go about it with a gloom and doom attitude instead of thinking, "Oh yeah, there goes another rough edge, ouch, didn't need that one either."

Sounds kind of goofy but so does sitting next to someone in a waiting room somewhere listening to them whining as if they were a 10 year old talking about how they can never get a break, when all around them are people worse off than them and people with more problems making a better go at it.

I do not want this to become a rant. It is what it is; my version of why "bad things" seem to happen to good people. Because what we call "bad things" are just things and they happen to all of us, and they are part of the process of getting back to our starting point better for the journey.

I am grateful for all of it, the journey is more exciting that way, and in fact, Joy should never be our goal, but instead should be our chosen method of travel. Peace Be The Journey.