If you accept things as they are:
then every thing is as it is supposed to be.
If you do not accept things as they are:
then every thing is as it is supposed to be.
After 10 years I lost the best job I ever had. I was well known and respected by the biggest of the big dogs, tech support used to call me to ask questions. I pretty much created my own position as a free agent, and got payed well to play with my favorite toys. Then some moron crashed a plane into the world trade center, the economy went to crap and I was unemployed. Not long after that my mate decided she liked girls better than boys, so she took my daughter and moved in with her new lover. A little wile after that my dream home was foreclosed on and both of my cars were taken, and lots of really unpleasant things happened after that even.
It has taken me several years to recover from all that.
What felt like at the time, and as my friend Angela used to teasingly describe as:
The almost unbearable pain and inhuman suffering of having all of the most important things in your life forcefully ripped away from you at one time and destroyed right in front of you.
She did a great drama queen. I get a big laugh out of it these days. In the aftermath of all that I wound up living in the apartment I still have, In the middle of the city.
Did ya ever wish you could have learned a lesson without having had the experience that taught it to you? Would ya really appreciate the sun shine as much if you had never known a cloudy winter day. to show you the contrast.
I've seen some pretty cool things in this city, and been part of some really heart warming stuff around here. that I never would have even known about before.
So.... Does every thing happen for a reason?
Charles Emerson wrote a couple of thought provoking things many years ago: "Man was made fore joy and woe, and when this we rightly know, through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine a clothing for the sole divine".
and
"The whole thing goes to teach us faith".
trick - you always have great words of wisdom on here and are a voice of reason on this site. Thanks for sharing this. i am trying to figure out what is happening in my life and don’t understand everything that is going on and want to fight it all, but i guess we have to accept things and not fight what we can’t control. Keep writing! and thanks!
I thought that was a pretty cool post.
I wasn’t sure if anyone even read it.
Ive had some pretty rough times, and usually while they were happening I was confused and very hurt. I had no clue how to properly handle this stuff.
But Looking back at some things. I’ve been very fortunate that after being bitter and miserable for some time, I finally realized that I didn’t want to feel that way anymore. And.
Even though I couldn’t change what had happened. I could change the way I felt about it. “Learn allot from it” and if nothing else I now know what not to do.
In the present and hopefully for the future as well. Allot of that knowledge seems to cut new problems in half.
Well the rest of that phrase goes something like this:
If the doors of perception were cleansed, all would appear as it is - infinite. Can you imagine your world in that way? Infinite, limitless, no restrictions other than those imposed by perception it self?