A Life Filled With Grace

[JustStunned]

Late as usual, I spent most of the last week just being, not apologizing, just saying.

Some random thoughts FWIW. You were on my mind during the last couple of days, pity we here can’t message or pick up a phone.

You know this, but I’ll say it anyway for it helps me frame these thoughts.

Life is not the fairy tale. It doesn’t end with the happily ever after ending. Life goes on and presents us with new challenges, new high and new lows. I do not think of life as a constant struggle. I experience my life as an ever changing series of experiences, events and opportunities. Some of them will be undesirable, downright bad and terribly upsetting. The opposite is true also.

Each point is populated with choices. The choices I make create the circumstances I experience. I choose to improve as I see improvement. I shape my life. Continuous improvement toward a goal. I falter when I reach a goal and allow myself to drift. A factor in my D was ceasing to lead and this was a choice I made.

I understand your point well. I had burned out constantly doing and that is when stagnation crept in. Doing, achieving, succeeding had become what defined me. I lost balance and crashed. Part of improving is balancing.

Sometime back I was over thinking and getting wrapped around an axle. A post from you began a realignment of sorts. Not a new idea for we see it expressed often, “stop and smell the roses”, “appreciate what you have achieved”, and the one I like best “experience the life in every breath”

It is a way of seeking balance. In my mind I hear Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi “Go find balance”