Sunday, 20 December 2009

Here endeth the lesson

The problem with feeling good is that it may be hard to recognise.
Where did your template come from? Good compared to what exactly?
You may need to feel bad to remember what good is.
That's life. Ups and downs.
Flux.
But all ups and all downs make people weary and dissatisfied at some point. It's one of the prices of humanity for all but the luckiest or dullest of people.
Yet flux allows the human spirit to influence outcomes.
You can choose your universe.
Flux allows you to spread your wings should you choose to express the freedom others have bought for you.
You may feel life should be more. You should be better appreciated. You haven't acheived your potential.
It might make you say, have an affair or bet on a horse to inject some flux , some excitement, ignoring the consequences. You might do something else of equal fun and self-destructiveness.
Go ahead. Enjoy. But own the consequeces like a badge of honour or a licence to kill.
Then ask yourself, am I feeling good now?
When you have done that, come back and read these final sentences.

Because next, it's time to evolve. To know yourself well enough that you know the answer to how you will feel before doing acting.
That's probably what they call emotional maturity.
It frees up more time for reading and watching 24.