Life Is An Enigma We Must Master
Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
by Susan Thom
I believe we are all here for a reason. I don't know what that reason is yet, but I'm convinced it exists. My opinion on it is that we are sent here to learn. We must learn to love and be compassionate and kind. We need to learn a way we can be more open minded. We have to go through situations and circumstances where we need to make a choice. We can either make things better, or give up and make them worse.
You change your mind, go to work, and it turns out to be a good day. Nifty little tool-thank changing of the mind. To me, our minds are exactly like puzzles-we are presented with pieces, and we need to figure out where they go. If we put them in the wrong spot, we may act aggressively, or like we're drunk, or philosophical. So, too, if we focus and figure out which piece goes where, and it fits, our world is more enjoyable and giving.
Friends and family are there to help-to talk to-to cry on their shoulders, but when it comes to the real deal-only we are in charge of our lives. We go to the doctor, and he doesn't like how a mole on our back looks. He says he wants to do a biopsy. He schedules it for the following week. As you talk to your loved ones, and shuffle through their opinions, you are still the one who has to make the final decision.
Life must be mastered in many ways, and those ways are learned along our journey. Even when we really don't have a clue of why we're on this Earth, we need to learn certain principles. We need to learn patience, compassion, concentration, retention, kindness, selflessness, honesty, perseverance, humility, spirituality, amid others. And to learn these things, we have to move through situations and circumstances that are at best, very painful at times.
If we learn from them, we are doing our job, I believe. If we don't, we are wasting time and adding to the negative energy none of us needs. If we are learning, we are moving up the scale to the Light, or God, or whomever you call your Higher Power. If you don't have one, you must be very arrogant to think you are solely responsible for your toe moving when you want it to.
When we are young, we need to learn how to share. For some, it's natural. For others, it must be taught. The same goes for lying. If being honest isn't something that comes easily to us, we have to learn through punishment, or being left out. Not many want to befriend someone they can't trust. However, the change factor can improve the quality of our lives.
We have a mind to think. We can think about what we are about to say, and not say it if we know it isn't appropriate, or the truth. We can know it isn't appropriate through learning from past mistakes. If we don't know it's wrong to offer a known alcoholic a drink, we have some serious misfirings going on in our brain. Life is just one event, one opportunity after another.
We are in charge of how we are going to react and act and think, in any given situation. If the dog runs to his water dish and bumps into it, spilling all the water out, how will you handle it? Start yelling at the dog and whipping paper towels off the roll? Will you scare the dog so much it never goes by his dish again?
Have you mastered patience? It doesn't sound like it. There are times we all lose it and let out everything we've been holding in for years. Then, we can start anew with a clean slate, and better, more defined skills. If we choose. Can you imagine a life without being nervous or grouchy or angry all the time? A life with minimal annoyance?
A life with happiness and peace and hope, faith, and stamina. A life that includes honesty and humility and altruism and compassion and passion and boundaries, and a conscience that knows right from wrong? If life is an enigma we must master before we move on, then shouldn't we be figuring out those character defects we need to be working on? We all have them, it just depends on whether we want to master them or not.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Good article Susan, I like the pictures of your son and daughter.Please log in to respond to this comment.hi david,thank you and thank you for mentioning my daughter and son.thank you for keeping us all in mind,my best,suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
Very nicely done. I thought I was a master of patience until I stopped smoking, and for some reason that has made me more patient. Weird, I know. You have some nice tips here, especially about humility. If only more would heed that advice.Please log in to respond to this comment.why michael, what a nice comment.i'm glad you got something positive out of this article.patience is under rated. the more patient we have, the better we feel, and the more we can accomplish.my best regards,suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
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