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It's a first for me to repeat an old news letter, but I saw this by chance and think it's well worth repeating. I think we all need reminders so to come back to the present moment, in as many ways as possible. So this is what I wrote exactly a year ago. And funnily enough I touched on this topic in class yesterday, without planning to do so.
"This past week I have been celebrating the "not knowing" of human life. The fact that we do not know how things will turn out often fills us with fear and worry, and makes us want to control what we actually have very little control over. But if we think about it, do we really want to know all that is about to happen in our lives ahead of time?
What would life be like if we knew what would be taking place in the future? To me it sounds like it would be incredibly boring, uninteresting and probably scary if I had known where my life journey would take me. It has taken many surprising turns, and some of them I could never have imagined. This is what makes life both overwhelming and painful, but also so very exciting and exquisitely beautiful.
Do I wish that my life would have taken a different path then it has so far? Well, I sure could choose to look at it that way, but it's not my angle. Instead I am deeply grateful that I have found my way in a world that does not necessarily encourage us to do just that, to find our own way. And I have learned to not fear the unknown, but to trust that when change comes around, it most likely is for the better, one way or another. So, here is to not knowing but to diving right into this present moment and experiencing life as fully as I am capable of. I hope you will join me!"
"Challenges are what make life interesting and
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
Joshua J. Marine
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