I’m not a
terribly optimistic person, I have a lot of major bad things happen to me. But that is not unique to me, many others have too, and this awareness was my first lightbulb moment to speed my healing. I am not a blameless clean slate either, but most all of it
was not done to hurt others. So I have been lucky with a few long-term
relationships and have a few close friends and family. I don’t seem to carry it
around with me anymore in either a grumpy manner or too much negativity. I am
instead more of a realist, with a smidgeon of compassion mixed with good
intentions. I have overcome a lot, so one might be surprised that I am not a
more a kind of whatever person. I see
through people’s bullshit pretty easy, and despise being thought of as being
stupid. This happens more often now with a speech disability than you could imagine. I
wish I could laugh when people pull stuff like this, but to me it is never
laughable because it is built on valuing the other less.
More often now, do
some nice things for people or strangers as a kind of surprise when they least expect it.
Someone might call it paying forward, and it is never done for others to feel
indebted to me. I just remember that whenever someone surprises me with
something unexpected, that I like the feeling of time stopped by it when the
realization we are all one.
So when I
sit down to meditate I am working the “me” apart from the ego and inching it
towards just “I am.” Just being. This profound intimacy I have with the self, in meditation, only seems to provide with more relaxed feeling about who I am. This translates
to less need to compare one to others, our paths are so unique that there is no
way …I could be you. I know who I am, finally ...because I know who I am not.
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