Obstacle filled street in Greece
Pave the road smooth. See the bumps, potholes and mirages “interesting.” Check them out as if you have never seen them before, as gifts. Go slowly. It is truly astounding how we create our own obstacles to enjoying the journey. The rock in the stream (the difficult boss, the physical limitation) is not the obstacle. It’s how we fear them, paddles around them, panic, crash and burn, spurn and spend ages beating ourselves (or the rocks) up.
Such intractable creatures are we. We’d rather lug around our overweight baggage and live within the templates that we have accepted as “us”. We make excuses as we go, “That’s just the way I am.” “I’m always a basket case when it comes to (fill in the blank)…” “I always have a hard time…”
I have come to see dithering and worrying as a colossal waste of precious time when we could be enjoying or, at least, not resisting what is going on.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of how things might look from a broader perspective. I smile, shake my head and am bemused. We bumble along, tumbling toward happiness. It’s hard for us t grasp that, like Abraham says, ”we’ll never get it done and we have all the time in the world.” We might as well relax and enjoy.
See obstacles as opportunities – even if it’s the opportunity to sit, down, hydrate and have another look/see.
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