“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell
Are the things we take for granted anything more than the stories we tell ourselves? We paint ourselves as hero or victim, seldom villain, at least for most people. I have tried to describe myself as an innocent bystander in my story more often than not only to discover that I wasn’t either of those things. Still this quote has given me an idea. The next time I am feeling sad or angry about something that has transpired, perhaps I can step back and look at things from a different perspective. Perhaps its not the story that’s at fault but the way its being told. If something happened that made me angry, how would the story sound if everyone involved was wearing clown suits or in their underwear? How about if the story was being told in retrospect from six months in the future or even six years? How would the story be told by someone watching it unfold or from the point of view of the jerk who was arguing with me? Could I actually Have been the jerk who was arguing with him? I will try each of these things and report back. This may be interesting to say the least.
Blessings, G
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
— Bertrand Russell
For me, this quote reflects a basic axiom that’s almost as important as “Shared joy is increased and shared pain lessened”. I can’t help it. I find people and what they’re into to be fascinating and almost anything can catch my interest enough to learn something about it. Everything has its place in the puzzle and what I have trouble with may just teach me about myself. Still trying to figure out what the fact that I seem totally mystified by my resistance to the charms of Honey Boo Boo might teach me about myself and still am not clear on exactly what a Kardasian is…. but then few people carry the theme songs to as many 1960’s and 70’s tv shows as I do.
I love being open to the universe and have found more and more that it reciprocates.
Blessings, G
Electric Tendrils by G A Rosenberg
