... there is a lot of thought about change as the years turn ... how this next year is going to be the one ... how all wrongs will be righted, and all dreams fulfilled, hopes manifest ... and this spirit of hope is the triumph of the wonderful human spirit ... a spirit that believes against the evidence of the past that the future will somehow be different ...
I wish you well with your dreams, I have some myself though they are abstract in nature, as abstract as dreams that make no sense but have meaning buried within ... but I still ask that you consider the following ...
You have little control over your life ... your skill is not in mastering the game, but in playing the hand that will be dealt to you in the coming year ... whether that will be a good or bad hand is not your concern ... how you deal with it is your concern ...
The less you try, the less you try and control events, the more energy you have to be receptive ... and if you make space for receiving signals that are not rational but universal and natural, and you trust in these signals that come in the shape of feelings and thoughts and even epiphanies, then change will come at a 'divine' pace ... and if it feels too slow adjust your clock from human time to cosmic time ...
Not everything is temporary, some things exist for eternity, like love for a child or a man or a woman, or Batman sequels ... and this always love ignites the dead material of this place we inhabit and charges it to a better future ... but beware ...
We can love ... but if we allow this love to define us, to bring us happiness, to guide us entirely ... if we hold onto this love as though it is all we are, and that without it we cease to exist, then we sacrifice ourselves ... and if we sacrifice ourselves then we don't really exist at all ... there is fortitude in love as there is fortitude in life ... it is work, it is commitment, it is passion ... but it is not obsession at the expense of ourselves ...
all is temporary, our loved ones will change and move on, the day will come ... so love yourself this year as you have never loved before ... the world needs you
oh! it is so good to read from you! i was wondering how your holidays might be shaping. i see good food on the table and real gratitude, simple time and all of its implications falling out from your family (and you!), the center of everything.
ReplyDeletei was startled at first by the notion that love is not transient. i see this now though. love itself, right? oh, and those relentless batman movies! (ha!) i thought this the other week, realized it, my own tiny epiphany, that my love for my husband is not so different than my love for my lover, or for my children, or for my parents. it is all the same, i thought, or realized. and i saw my exhusband receive the body of his new lover and i thought, he is loving her just the same as he loved me, as i loved him, and that same loving, really, is he loving himself, isn't it? isn't this the crux of everything? and yet i struggle with the i. isn't this it, the urge, the necessary movement of the i to be present? i love. this is eternal, no matter who i love, no matter who i am.
much love to you now and into every day that your table is set with such beautiful food.
xo
erin