Personal Meditation No. 133

“Only you can bring yourself peace.”

Embrace the Within

From first glances around social media this morning and last night, today is going to be a rough one around my tribe. I already have two funerals scheduled to attend today and I have this knowledge that a lot more people are in pain. Funerals are for the living to make their peace with death. So, it’s a memento mori and amor fati kind of day.

We do have to realize that our time on this planet is short and that we should enjoy that time. A lot of folks get tied up in a lot of nonsense that doesn’t make them happy. They get involved in things that occupy their minds and their time and also make them irritated.

I used to get irritated about a lot of things in life. Sometimes I still do. But the things that irritate me now are things I want to change. Things I think I can change. I get irritated when people don’t want to be consistent in their beliefs. I get irritated when I do the wrong thing. I get irritated when I can’t figure out the best way to teach something. I get irritated when I don’t understand a concept in science. I get irritated when I don’t have enough time to play outside in the garden.

BUT, I don’t get irritated by what other people do for long. I might initially get or act angry BUT I know that is not my struggle. That is their struggle. I tend to look for ways to fix their problem. I tend to look for ways to get them over their hurdle. I tend to look for ways to make them better. I have had enough of forcing anything because it is always your body and your choice. But I can nudge.

I think back to my time at Great Mills when I had a one-dollar yard sale chair inside my classroom and every morning folks would come in and sit there and tell me their problems so I could fix their day . . . .

And that chair got thrown away by my principal at the time because she thought it was taking away from my day. It really wasn’t. I have this teaching thing on lock . . .

BUT a lot of folks need someone to talk with . . .

Every day . . .

And I am more than willing and do not find it a burden to talk it out . . .

I have zero answers to offer . . . BUT I know how to listen.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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