We see life
from the perspective of our moment. We often fail to see life in the entirety
of what it really is.
Our drive to
work can be quite nice, with little traffic and good tunes. Maybe still
remembering the prior day and the extra 25 minutes it took to get to our
destination. But greatly failing to remember how the drive was 6 months ago or
3 years back.
Life is most
of the time seen as a relatively short window of past, present and future. Our
moods and feelings fluctuating from positive to negative, calm to tempered.
Giving us a space of memory that can give us small insight into why we feel a
certain way and what in our near future could affect that mood, whether that be
for the greater or the lesser.
We’ll judge
things based off recently preceding events that either did or didn’t go down the way we wanted. Perception can be faintly deceiving when the pieces do or do
not fall into a certain slot.
The truth is
all of life, nature and creation is bound by these rules we so often overlook.
The swinging pendulum of life and all the forces in it.
There are constant
swings in every big and little aspect around us. The day has a night, the hot
has a cold, and the flower blooms for its given time and fads away.
This is the
natural swing of all life, left to right and up to down. It is undeniable and
unchangeable. It is part of the nature of who we are and what is around us.
When we’re up
we ponder and dream of life continually being this way, with no drop-in sight.
Then when we’re down it is an ever-long battle and we're not sure when the end
will come in sight. The shift seems to come suddenly, but is that how it works
or is that the deceivingly short span of attention to life’s details.
If we were to
see our life as a whole and not just a blip of tiny moments and circumstances.
We’d likely be able to see the rising and falling of the tides we have gone through,
very much like that of the ocean.
As Bruce Lee
stated:
But even in
life’s natural state we are always as water. Flowing from one set degree to the
next, sometimes fighting the current but in the end always having to surrender.
There are
times when we will be up and high rolling with the wind on the side of our
sails. There are times when we will be down and scrounging about going up the
wave and against the current. For every cause, there is an effect.
So many
actions have led up to this point in your life, swinging away at the pendulum
of good and bad, positive and negative. Millions upon millions of actions and
events led to this structure of reality you are currently taking part in.
This is
indisputable, we will always go through good times and hard times. A part of
life is the swaying from happiness to sadness. Life cannot be any other way, it
just is as nature intends. We are gifted one but in return must experience some
form and degree of the other, otherwise there would no joy as there would be
nothing to compare it to, as there would be nothing sad because there would be
nothing to compare it to.
These, I
believe to be, are factual statements but must not be something to worry about
but something to take certainty in. Lending us a hand in support of how we come
to handle such events of the swing in the opposite direction of what we each
perceive as joy or happiness.
Keeping a
watchful eye and a broader outlook on how we feel and how we are choosing to
interpret the world and its affairs. Noticing the joys in life that put smiles
on our faces, yet being understanding of the equal balance of occasions that
may bring us a tear or frown. This is flowing like water with how life comes to
form.
We can learn
to take deeper notice and perspective when things teach us what life is all
about. And at the same time, not expecting, but anticipating the lower feelings
of life with a neutral attitude and an inspection of the meaning this helps us
learn and stitch into life's complete story.
Shall life
take us by the hand and yank us left/right, up/down. Or shall we learn to ebb and
flow with life and the gift of different experiences it shall bring, ever learning
the balance of life so we can develop deeper meanings behind the happy and sad
moments of this twinkle of adventure.
-Ra Bar
