I have alluded to this before, and maybe prompts are running together in my noggin, but if anywhere is all inclusive?
The right here.
And right now.
All else tends to be an illusion. Taking you away from now. Sure I like to travel. Used to about three or more weeks of the month back in the day for work. Took vacations growing up. Will be heading to Galena the end of the month. Saw lots of places. Met lots of faces.
I can escalate things MUCH bigger than they need to be, taking it all the way to DEF-CON 4 if I deem it as necessary. Mulling, wait wrong word, ruminating constantly over and over. And over.
And over.
And like any event that comes along, how I choose to respond ultimately determines the outcome.
One of the rules of life a mentor of mine held fast to was that adversity was never an “if” event, but always a “when”. As such, if you could stand firm and see things for what they truly were, then you could find a glimmer of opportunity within that moment. The chance to have a hand in the outcome.
Having experienced some chaos of late, I know that it is there for a reason. I am being tested. I will admit that this is one that requires more of me. Far more. Funny, I can think I am completely empty and then things suddenly come along that require more of me.
Like where am I gonna get that?
But I can do it with some help.
All I need do is ask.
For I am not alone.
Perhaps that is precisely why it is so good for me.
Al says that “perspective generally refers to an individual’s point of view or the mental framework through which they interpret the world, situations, and other people.” I then asked him to better explain interpret, and just like that, he said: “to interpret means to explain, translate, or make sense of something by applying personal context, special knowledge, or creative judgment.”
So essentially, either way I look at it, there is an element of control on my part in just how I choose to perceive or interpret something, an event. My context. “Special” knowledge I possess. An creative judgement? From the man who routinely has lacked any speck of just judgement, let alone the creative variety whatsover?
That means I somehow control the event. At least in terms of my perception and interpretation. Whether I needed to or not, conforming things to my will may not end up well for the home team. To that I can whole heartedly affirm with an array of “missteps” spanning decades.
Born of my perspective and interpretation.
“Creative judgement”?
So shifted I did.
Needed to double clutch this one.
If I can reduce the will on my end, then I can more fully open myself to following another source. If I can be right here and accept what goes on around me right now, then there is no need in enhancing or changing perspective. The need for a replay or two to better understand?
Byeeeeeeee!
There will then be no need for interpretation. No contextual concerns. A special knowledge will emerge, but now from being taught something for the first time. Creative judgement will take a hike, since what is there is now finally seen as what it is.
Truth.
Things no longer have to be woven into my ego and made into something altogether different.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
We only have this one.
There is nothing to be done to what has happened. We cannot foretell the next hour let alone twenty three more.
…so is this the 5000 steps my brain takes to figure out how to respond to the prompt? Or the 5000 times three I will be taking today coaching my buddy at the hardware store.
I am no mathematician, but that could be a large total.
...my temporary assignment. 