Our Life – Our Choice…
OK, maybe that’s a bit of an
overgeneralization but it applies most of the time. Basically, what I am saying is that we are what we are because
that’s what we’ve decided to be. We
live where we live, do what we do and think what we think because that’s we’ve
decided to do. Yes, I understand that
there are some illnesses and other stuff that happens that tends to force us
into a particular mode of operation.
But by the same token, how we function within our situation and how we
deal with the things we need to deal with is always our decision.
This takes us right back to
one of my foundation principles - we believe what we believe because of our
personal programming. Our present
perception (whatever it is) of what is written in the preceding paragraph is
absolutely correct based on our life experiences, input – and programming. Does that mean that there are no incorrect
opinions and this is one of those “I’m OK, you’re OK so let’s hold hands and
sing something” things? Oh, heck
no! This just means that we all have
our personal reasons for doing what we do and thinking what we think.
Unfortunately, none of us –
repeat, none of us has been fortunate enough to get one hundred percent
accurate and unbiased information and input into our little pea brains as we’ve
trudged through life. As a result,
we’re all playing our life game with a few cards missing from our deck. It’s almost a sure bet that we’ll never find
all of ‘em, but I think the sporty thing to do is to do our best to search out
at least a couple more cards before we revert back to our basic earth elements.
And yeah, we’ll count the Jokers as worth keeping. (Maybe they’re really the ones we oughtta
look for first! Just a thought.) Note: For those of you who are presently
holding a partial deck that is only giving you a Jack high poker hand, heck
that’s good enough to open. Hang in
there and keep playing!
Now that we’ve come out of
the closet and admitted that we’re all screwed up to some extent, let’s get back
to the initial subject. Our life – and
nearly all of its components – is the result of our decisions that have been
heavily influenced (or even controlled) by our programming. And yeah, we may have also been heavily
influenced by other factors – namely people – but unless someone is holding a
gun to our heads to “force” us to do what we’re doing, the reason we’re here at
this point in our lives is because of the decisions we’ve made. Even with a gun aimed at our noggins, we
still have a couple of options to choose from, don’t we?
For those of us who are
completely satisfied with the way our lives are going in every little detail –
we should take a lot of satisfaction in knowing that we have been extremely
fortunate to have been able to make some very beneficial decisions. Back up a second here. The biggie word in the last sentence was
“satisfied”. I didn’t say “happy”. We can be generally happy with the way
things are going in our lives – and still not be satisfied. The way I look at it, if we have just one
small thing we’d like to do differently or better, then we’re not completely
satisfied. Cool! That keeps us from joining the walking dead
and trudging down our rut to the slime pit.
For those of us who are not
completely satisfied with every little detail in our lives (that’d be me), we
really should seriously consider doing something about it! And that brings me to the main point of this
little discussion. To be able to do
something about our lives, to make the changes and improvements that we feel we
would like to make, we need to first say the following words:
“I (insert your name here) hereby take full
responsibility for all aspects of my life.
I am personally fully accountable for who I am, what I believe and what
I have accomplished - and will accomplish in my life.”
Of course, you can expand
that if you want to include never blaming anyone else for your situation, to
understand and respect the rights of others to have any opinion they want
because now you know why they think and believe the way they do, to not take stuff
so seriously because everyone is doing whatever they think is the best thing to
do at the time, that we’re all a little goofy and that helps make this world a
really interesting place to live and that you’re going to do your best to take
some time for yourself every day to think about cool stuff and just relax and
that you’re going to chill out and have some fun and enjoy life more. (Whew, I need to take a deep breath!)
Once we can accept full
responsibility for our lives and what we are, only then are we capable of
moving on toward our goals and a truly enjoyable lifestyle. Well worth doing, I’d say.
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