Keep it simple

Life.  It’s a beautiful thing.  It can be really simple or really complicated.  It’s your choice.  If you strip away all the bullshit and the what if’s, but’s and maybe’s and you get to to core of the situation and you ask yourself “Is this what I want?  Does this make me happy now?” and you can answer that honestly.  Well then you have your answer.  And then you will find a way to make it work.  Or you will find an excuse, which in itself is an answer.

I tend to look at things very simplistically and I isolate the issue at hand.  The underlying issue might I ad.  To me everything is simple.  It might not always be easy to face up to things and to ask yourself the hard questions and to carry them out.  But in essence it’s simple to get to the answer.  I just don’t have the time to fuck around with shit that doesn’t ad positively to my life experience.  And if I find something worth my while, I will do whatever it is in my power to do to maintain and build on that.  Even if it means compromising.  Because if something is worth it for me, I don’t see it as compromising or giving up something, because I don’t do anything that I don’t really want to do.  Life is all about give and take, and sometimes if it means I have to change something in order to get something, I do it without question.  Because it helps me get something else that I want more.

It doesn’t help to be rigid when it comes to life.  One has to be flexible, go with the flow and adapt.  I think I have that down to a fine art at this point.  Simply because my perception is different.  Everything is a choice.  And when you get this and you practice this,  you start taking responsibility and then there is no room for resentment or regret.

 

 

 

Time to get going

Life is very much like a pendulum isn’t it.  We are constantly swinging between extremes – happy and not happy.  Because like a pendulum works once you let it go at one point it’s going to swing past the opposite end.  So we live in different degrees of happiness.  Osho reckons that one should aim to be in the middle.  I’ve been pondering this.  Being in the middle.  It seems very neither here nor there.  Not that the extremes are always a bunch of fun either.  But isn’t that the point of living.  To experience the highs and lows.  I reckon the only thing we can really do is adjust our perspective when we reach the opposite of happy, when the pendulum swings that way.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of living the life you want.  I just want to be happy for the most part.  I want to live my version of what I feel a good life is.  It seems easy enough.  The things I want, the way I want to live, yes it’s very possible.  So why am I not there, why am I not doing it.  I look at other people who do it, they make a plan, they get around it.  They do it.  They take it.  What is stopping me.  I have a thousand excuses.  Practicalities.  And I ask myself when did I stop making plans and start making excuses…

It’s not good enough.  Don’t get me wrong.  Things are fine the way it is now.  But me, I yearn for amazing.  Fine isn’t good enough.  I don’t want to settle.  I don’t want regret.  And no-one is going to do it for me.  Time to get going again…