Long Beach—Monday—April 6
Morning musings.
This past weekend…a fire fundraiser on Saturday morning….Hands Off in downtown LA on Saturday afternoon…a Malibu gathering on Sunday, more fire fire fire discussion….and now Monday Monday, am I still here?
A constant in all of this is being approached/asked::
“You seem so together and great…how?”
“You always look as if you are at peace”
“How can you be smiling? You are always smiling!”
How can one respond?
I feel that when one has lived multiple decades, one has experienced a multitude of disappointments/sorrows/ upsets/ loss and what one learns with each one is to look at the choices of how to ride….meaning yay or nay.
If one allows oneself to feel the blow entirely, not ignore or fight the feelings, but be gentle with them and accept them as a new part of the self going forward, then one has room for joy to be front and center once again.
If one chooses to fight the fight of woe and angst, the long haul is a long haul…and only spirals downward.
By seven and a half decades on the planet, who has not lost loved ones, experienced heartbreaks, the loss of well functioning body parts, financial ups and downs, unrealized dreams and on and on. This is life on earth. Every single moment we have a choice in how to ride. If one chooses life…joy…humor…friendship….beauty…love…THEN we become all the more appreciative of each moment and solid because of the shatterings along the way…THEN we can feel and exude peace and joy and passion for being here.. Simply a choice.