Its been a while since I wrote.. thats ok. But it makes me kind of sad. I used to pound these keyboards with vengeance! Declaring my thoughts to my screen, but who else? I guess maybe I needed the time to realize I can pound the keys as a warrior, sharing my words to improve our world.
That is what I intent to do.
Life is filled with so many things and the kicker is we are all experiencing it slightly different from one another. I guess that is the gift from God, to live and experience it in our own unique way. Because how boring would it be if it, if we were all the same.
Our experience is what makes us who we are. It is what determines your life being a “success” or not. I quote success because it is a word we all can describe differently. But for my curiosity sake, I am going to give the official definition to success.
- The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
- The good or bad outcome of an undertaking.
Hm, number two interests me. The good or bad outcome, does that mean most things are going to be considered a success because anything could be defined by good and/or bad?
Good and bad is also up to interpretation. Someone could say one event was bad, but perhaps that event lead to a great victory in another aspect of life. Was that initial event really “bad” then? I say no. I also say that good and bad are words we should be careful when defining anything.
It reminds me of The Story of the Chinese Farmer by Alan Watts
Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”
The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.
— Alan Watts
So good… maybe.
Life is how you experience it. Im reading a book and one paragraph really hit me when describing what it is to gain experiences in life. She said that she took a group to Egypt. Some members stayed in the hotels and ate out at places like Burger King.. she said, you went to Egypt, but did your really experience Egypt?
Her relation was to us living on this spinning condensed pile of rubbish in the middle of literal space! We are living here but are we really experiencing here?
It makes me heart feel all excited and anxious to think that we get the chances to go out and live. To think of the possibilities awaiting us, to think of all the unknown people we haven’t met yet and the experiences we have experienced yet. All the storied we will be taking with us to our grave, as we collect memories of a life well lived and experiences well gained.
I see it as a badge we wear. If you have experienced a lot then you are advancing a lot! And remember no such thing as good or bad, just what it is. Some are heartache experiences, but they shape you, they make you and you can be proud you are here to fully feel it. All we have to do is feel it, feel life happening. Tap into the emotional side, the feminine side of life.
For far too long we have been in a teeter totter of masculine energy that has been in its heights for too long. Too much thinking, and not enough feeling.
Maybe it sounds silly, but without emotion what do you have? Without love what do you have? Look around the world and you will see it.
Next writing will be a story of patriarchy and matriarchy, finding the balance in all of us.