Personal Meditation No. 72

“It may not be your fault but it is still your problem.”

Embrace the Within.

Leaving the plantation today is going to be a challenge. Not a challenge in the sense that my other life is difficult or that I don’t enjoy my other life, but a challenge in being confronted with a lot of problems that are not my fault that I will still be forced to solve.

There are always going to be problems you’re going to have to face in life that are not of your creation. One of the main problems that inevitably arises when going back to my other life is the litany of overly negative or overly positive people trying to influence my behavior and actions. But I can’t allow their world view to distract me from my goal, my philosophy, my life.

I do grow accustomed to not having to associate with the outside world once the job ends for a few months. I do enjoy solving only problems of my own creation. I do enjoy working on my faults in isolation. I do enjoy the tight circle of folks whose texts I answer.

I enjoy being able to choose. But when I choose to leave the plantation I lose a lot of control over all that choice. I lose control of how to solve the problems alone. I will get bombarded by the problems of systems and people that don’t have any discipline or control over themselves. My problem is not with those systems or people. My problem resides in how I handle those systems and people. I need to remember that I can’t change those things. I can only show a better way by being a better way, a better option, a better example.

But handling those problems are only mine for a short amount of time. They are my problems for a tolerable amount of time. Because I will be home and back on the plantation this afternoon. I will be working again with my own problems and fixing those problems. I will be out in nature. And I will be where I wanted to be all day.

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

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