Thursday January 28, 2010

Good Morning!

I often hear friends and acquaintances complain about their lives. Their dissatisfaction with the turn of events which have made up the chapters in their Book of Life is not quite what they signed up for so many years ago. They even go to the point of saying," if only I had this break or that relationship, or if I had only gone in this direction or that one. Sounds all to common to most of you I suspect.

The problem with this type of misguided thinking is that where you are and what you are doing is exactly where you need to be and what you need to be doing in order to fulfill the order you placed so long ago. It is common practice to order something in a restaurant only to tell the waitress this is not what I asked for, when indeed it is exactly what you asked for. Then of course you want to send it back and get something else. Unfortunately life does not work this way, you can't simply order a new life, you don't get a new hand at the card game of life. You have play the hand you are dealt and you have to live the life you asked for.

Now this is not a permanent state of affairs, you do get to change directions as it were on your Spiritual Road trip. You do have the ability to turn one way of another, you can go down a different path if you feel where you are or what you are experiencing is not what you thought it would be. But you do have to be honest with yourself and the people you are involved with. Decisions are never unilateral, they do affect the people around you. So you need to think long and hard on what you want or need to do. You also have to figure out how you got to where you are on your journey, why you think it is "not working for you", and what are the lessons learned so you do not make the same mistake down the road.

So for now just remember that the life you think has no value may have tremendous value to someone else who is also not happy with their life and think that slipping into your shoes would be a perfect fit. How sad it would be for you to have missed out on your "wonderful life" just because your shoes did not need changing, just a slight adjustment. Like life itself, just adjusting our sights alters completely our view, our paradigm.

Have a Joyful Day,

Robb