Most days I feel as if I have it all figured out, or at least enough to be OK with the stuff I don't have figured out. Some days I feel like I know close to nothing. I know that this is not true but it doesn't stop me from feeling this way.
On most days I am a hopeless optimistic, one of my best and most annoying qualities I am sure. I live in my happy bubble with my logic and smiles and puppies, who are two weeks old today by the way. Today though, I am off. So what do I know today? I know that everyone has bad days and the days that happen to be bad, well maybe we are simply getting the bad one out of the way.
So today I know that today will pass and tomorrow will come, well I am pretty sure, there are no guarantees but I can say that it will come with some certainty.
There is a Buddhist proverb where a monk walks around the monastery in the morning with a little bird perched on his shoulder. The bird asks him every morning, "Is today the day? Is today the day that you die?" To some this may sound morbid, but not to me. It is not about fear, for Buddhists do not fear the inevitable. The message that this is supposed to portray is that we should live everyday knowing that we would be happy with the choices we make if today happens to be "the day." This is not always real easy to do but I think it is worth trying for.
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