Why it's important to remember that sh*t happens
& how to get down off that horse you're on.
Couldn’t be me 💅.
Sometimes I start feeling like, okay, I’ve learned some lessons and now we’ll just put this thing in cruise control and drive off into the sunset.
This is so very ‘te-he-he’ of me to think.
With every level there’s a new challenge. Never forget that.
You can never quite escape the transient nature of life, the coming and the going of all things, the constant change.
It’s not a hard concept to understand but a difficult one to hold top of mind.
Sometimes I find that instead of holding a deep knowledge about this consistently forever, I seem to forget my fleeting nature. My forgetting drives me into a psychological inquisition.
How could this happen?
Why do I feel like this?
How can I get out of this situation?
This is largely unnecessary when you understand that life is just happening and it’s unfolding differently every time 😤😍.
The only constant is your ability to observe and enjoy this unfolding or get tangled in it.
& we all get tangled, time and time again.
I feel like I have a semi-strong or practiced way of observing but still sometimes I feel that I am also getting tangled and then baffled at how I could let that happen.
A further tangling.
No, thank you.
The practice is to get to quicker acceptance about the experience that you’re having vs the experience that you were expecting or desired. It’s our judgement of an experience that sometimes makes it harder than it needs to be.
We don’t need to classify everything as good or bad because it’s all temporary anyways.
It’s just the experience of what is, our opinions are a little irrelevant because it’s come from nowhere and will be returning there and then replaced with a new unknown.
Out of our control.
Why are we stressing so much about it?
Life is going to happen whether you over intellectualize it or not(it’s so fun tho 🤣).
It’s expanding and you’re expanding with it, this is new for all of us, all the time.
Goal: interact with the experience a little lighter, with a little less judgement and a little less inner yapping.
Best of luck, excuse me while I park my horse.