THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

GOOD MORNING!

I hope all of you are having a great weekend, Sunday is still with us, so make the most of it. That is a great way to look at life, you have one day left, so make the most of the time you have.

My posting today deals with, and I love this title, "The Law of Unintended Consequences". Is that expression a load of crap or what. Everything in life has a consequence. When you wake up in the morning, " do I get up or do I roll over for a few more minutes". " Do I wear heavy wool when it is 90 degrees out, or do I wear light and airy cotton".

Is society not only tell us that we escape responsibility not only from our physical life, but now we escape that same responsibility from our spiritual life. I don't think so. Who are they kidding, the law should read as, "The Law of Intended Consequences". You can't escape responsibility just like you can't escape falling in love and getting hurt, it is an essential part of life, one which would render your whole existence meaningless if it didn't exist.

You have to take responsibility for all that you are, you have to own your decisions and live with the consequences. Now you don't have to carry around things you do as if it was baggage, but you do have to acknowledge that it is out there, understand it, embrace it, and if it becomes too much to bear, carry around, then just out it down because even if it is a negative piece of baggage, there is something to be learned, not just by you, but others on their journey. And the pathway you are on, will be trodden by others I assure you, and they also will benefit from your baggage and they will (after a while) make it there own.

Did you ever feel as if a weight has been lifted from you, that all of a sudden you understand, at least for the moment your place, your purpose in this life. Well, what do you think that is, well I will tell you, it is just some else picking up your baggage (there life lesson) and relieving you of that particular burden, that is of course if you have the understanding and the awareness to put the dam baggage down. Sounds easy, but you already know where I am going here, it is never easy, certainly never as easy as I make it sound here. Yet, it really is that easy. Here let me give you and example of what I am getting back.

We all walk through life with certain baggage, emotional and physical, no getting around it, some of us deal more effectively with it that others, but it is with us just the same. The emotional scarring from people, we oft times feel unwanted, unloved as if we are in the wrong family as it were. We also have real physical scarring, as if the emotional scratch could actually be seen on our physical being, much tougher to deal with. There is a point to this lesson, to the pain (both kinds), and it is a teaching moment, a lesson to be learned, but like Sigmund Freud's psycho- analysis, not meant as a way of life, but a teachable tool. Not to used as an all encompassing discipline, but as an adjunct to dealing with life's challenges.

You are suppose to understand it, learn its lessons, but you are also to put it down and move on, not carry it around with you like a medallion around your neck for a lifetime. Do you realize how many chains you carry, weighing you down. After a lifetime, that is a lot to deal with and you wonder why life seems to heavy, difficult and challenging? Isn't time loosen the chains, to remove the burdens of life, (physical, emotional and spiritual)? I think so, I think the reason we read blogs, books and articles on this subject is because we are looking for answers, keys to open the door and escape the pain and sorrows of our life. The problem is not the pain, but how we perceive it, what we do with it and how to dispose of it once we understand what it is all about.

So for today, just understand what your burdens are and also what they are not. You were not born into this universe to experience pain, sorrow and lack. You were born to have a life of Joy, Happiness and Abundance. What has happened is that you did not understand the laws and rules of life, or maybe you lost or misplaced them. In any case here is a 2nd chance or 3rd or 4th one to get it right and not only move forward, (sometimes it is just good to stay where you are and experience your life in the moment), to just live within your skin, maybe for the first time and learn to appreciate who you really are. You maybe pleasantly surprised and maybe not, but at least you learn to know yourself and if what you are or who you are are not where you are, than do something about, don't wallow win pity, don't complain how unfair life is, you have a million followers with the same addiction. Just take responsibility for who what and where you are, embrace it, but if it is not your cup of tea, don't let it define you and put it where it belongs. But for g-d's sake don't carry it around with you all the time. No one is required to go through life with the burdens you choose to carry, yes choose. Life is after all a choice, what do you choose for yourself? And yes life is what you choose and it is full of intended consequences.

Have a wonderful day!
Robb