Isn’t it amazing how much of ourselves we put into people, places, and situations, and then, when we remove ourselves, we find it was only ourselves there and not the others.
I went back to tealeaves again tonight to see what it might say, and the funny thing is that the message above, does really hit home. However, the sad part is that it applies more to the people in my life than me personally.
While I know I am far from perfect, I do actively try to improve upon my own words and actions. The frustration part is that I have a hard time knowing how to accept and deal with those around me that don’t try to do the same.
Even though we are always the center of our own universe, we sometimes need to be reminded that we are not the center of everyone else’s. You can’t expect the rest of the world to walk to your rhythm. Walk to your own rhythm.
It doesn’t matter if it is a relative, a friend, or just a short term acquaintance, it is a fact of life that I will meet and have to deal on a daily basis with people, who have certain thoughts set in their mind, and it doesn’t matter what you say, nothing can change their perception.
I guess I should learn how to accept this way of thinking, but it’s hard. I want to shake these people and say wake up. I want to somehow knock some sense into their minds. But it doesn’t matter what I say or do. Until that individual is willing open their eyes to a new way of thinking, a new way of life, I just have to somehow manage.
In a lot of ways, both my husband and I are a lot of like in our way of thinking. And today as we were driving around, we had a conversation concerning this exact topic. To give you some background information, we live in a subdivision off a main highway that is under major construction, and even if I am in a hurry, I try to drive with caution. However, there are quite a few drivers that don’t seem to think that traffic reduced to two lanes with construction deserves any caution. That is, I just saw someone this morning cross the double lines to go around someone trying to turn, and the scary part is that the person was driving straight into incoming traffic when they tried to go around the construction vehicle. Not exactly, what I would call smart concerning it only took five seconds for the driver to turn. Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky at the lovely age of twenty-seven. But to point out exactly how dangerous this stretch of road is right now, we saw a nasty accident this afternoon. It involved a couple cars, and it was not a pretty sight. As my husband said, if we would all just wake up and realize that we’re not the only ones on the road, if we would only watch out for each other, we wouldn’t have such accidents, and I think that thought can apply to all of life. If we would only wake up and realize that our way of life isn’t the one and only true path, if we would realize that there are different paths, different ways of thought, life might be easier. Life might flow. Life might not be such a struggle.
