What it will do is give you a tool to find acceptance. There's so much we struggle and worry about. Analyse. Overanalyse. Ruminate. Contemplate. Plan. Fret. Extemporize. Prevaricate. Agonize.
But for all that, our wandering wonderings do us poor service. We are imagining a future that we cannot possibly know, and that for most part, we cannot possibly change.
I tell you there's no need for such self torture! Indulge me for a moment while I anecdote...
Nearly 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was young, there was no family history: I was just unlucky. You bet I spent a few years being intermittently terrified of my own mortality. Slowly I came out of it as the threat of immediate death faded in time.
I watched others who had also been through similar experiences. We tended to have two different outlooks: those of us who had achieved a new sense of peace and purpose in our life; and those who were stuck in self-destructive behaviours, blaming themself for everything that was going wrong, had ever gone wrong, would ever go wrong in their lives.
The key difference? Some of us had accepted what had happened and its consequences, while the others were wrapping themselves with barbed wire of misery, wishing their life away.
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It's not just about big things like Life and Death. Everything! Promotions, plants growing, trains running on time, other people's attitudes towards us.
Surrender. Accept. Peace.
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