Be the Change no. 28

"You're not going to get healthy concerning yourself about what other folks are doing. You only get healthy by concern for what you are doing."

Be the Change.

Sometimes you just need a change. I think a lot of days we get so bogged down and weighed down by the enormity of life in this society that we need to take a break. Folks need to take a moment, take a step back, and reflect on what they are doing. There are a lot of folks getting up every day and doing things that make them hate themselves, resent their families, and get angry at the world. And that is not a healthy place to be.

I never got to the point of hating my routine. I just got disgusted with the way I was living my life. I got tired of being angry and tired. I grew tired of worrying about things that truly did not matter. I found happiness and purpose in me. I stopped getting involved in the drama of society and started working on me. I kind of dropped out.

I still get the updates all the time. I haven’t become a hermit yet. BUT I find myself responding more and more each day in the face of the drama of the world that “I don’t care”. And that is not that I don’t empathize. It is not that I don’t understand the pain of the world’s drama. It just is not of my main importance. I don’t go to bed worrying about government, politics, taxes, inflation, war, famine, disease, or any of the other myriad of worries that get paraded out as distraction every day. I don’t wake up worrying about them either. I am more concerned about my garden and that plan. I am more concerned about household chores like laundry, which folks around here seem to start and never complete. I am more concerned about drinking more water. I am more concerned about being happy and abundant.

So, one of my coworkers and I were talking about how easy it was for folks that were so onboard with masks and were adamant about others wearing their masks correctly to just as quickly switch to not wearing masks and not caring about masks. And it just comes back to not worrying about other people. I could give her a number of reasons for why folks are hypocritical, led, and followers. I could excuse their actions or bring fault with our own. BUT, none of that really matters because I do not get to make the choices about how they choose to live. It doesn’t matter. I don’t care. I need to work on me and that is a full time job. I do not have time to look for external controls until I finish internal control. And when internal control occurs, I will never want to control anything external to me again.

So, find your peace with yourself because you are never going to find peace outside of you. You can only embrace that within yourself.

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