Monday, October 25, 2004

Alone


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Originally uploaded by Anantya.

Alone we enter and alone we leave.
What to do in-between is the big question.

If you follow rules and the definitions of others you are promised more predictability, more safety, more company, more congratulations, more approval..... than if you choose to strike out on your own.

The choice to sacrifice the "guarantees" and applause of your country, your culture, your family, your marriage, your gender.... for the ups and downs, the glories and risks of writing your own script, is not a small one. You make the "other choice" and you do it alone.

My life is still, like most, a real "work/play in progress". The number of "mistaken" choices and "wrong turns", while far too plentiful for the average person to suffer or be held responsible for, is far outweighed by both uncountable glorious peak moments (inner and outer, personal and relational) and the overall sense that I'd rather "fail" going along my own way than "succeed" going alone theirs.

My prayer and intentions are very clear: peace and love and freedom and wellness and joy and humor and entirely positive co-evolution from here to .....well, yes, to eternity. This is just me and the tune that my strange wandering jig dances to.

And then there's the daily living of the journey from here to there....or the exploration of the ever unfolding herenow which floats, in my case, half upon the let-go and silence of a zenlike acceptance of however this moment arises and the other half upon and heart-filled river of warm hope, constantly flowing and following the gravity towards Home.

....or something like that.

And you?

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