Brave Enough To Be Bliss

created all this and us is actually grieved and in pain that we have messed it up this badly that we are treating each other and this world with such disregard that we should be ashamed of ourselves and start doing it better. We need to take responsibility instead of wishing it away and wanting to blame someone, anyone, anything else. Life is hard. Shit happens and it’s time we accept it and deal with it and start acting like citizens of a universe that we are fortunate to live in. And start taking care of each other to help each other through the inevitable pain that is here or will come. Those who choose to kill, torture, rape, those are the minority and if we all banded together against those types of behaviors, against all mistreatment of people, and started focusing on the good the true and the right…the majority, this world would look a hell of a lot brighter and wiser and more wonderful. We are focused on the wrong things and that is why they loom so large. We need to open our eyes to the fullness and bounty of our lives, prepared only that it could and likely will change someday, but instead of enjoying today we wish away all our days living in fear and don’t enjoy the present in front of us today. The meaning of life is to enjoy every single precious moment of now. Period. While it is here. That’s it. Enjoy it while we have it. Now. Let fear go knowing we do not and cannot control the future. And when things change and the loss or the pain or the diagnosis comes, to accept the reality of it, not run from it, but embrace it as our reality and find a way to breathe into it with people around us to help carry us through it no matter the outcome. Hopelessness isn’t the diagnosis. Hopelessness is when we believe there’s no one there to share it with us. That is when it becomes overwhelming, and the end is the only option. When we tell ourselves a lie that no one can understand. When we refuse to reach out for help. When we believe we are alone, and no one cares. That is when we lose hope for living. Accepting our reality as it is, accepting help from others or asking for it if it doesn’t automatically come and looking around to give help wherever we can, those are the brave steps toward living a life that is full and real and worthwhile. We want it all and the fact is we ca n’t have it all and we shouldn’t. Greed, lust, we wouldn’t want it if we enjoyed what was right in front of us. If we soaked in and appreciated the goodness and joy available to us right now in the present instead of always reaching for more, then we would actually be content with what we have as long as we have it. That is the key to life and love. Simplification. Acceptance of it all…the good the bad and the ugly. Living in the present. Enjoying the good while we have it. Surviving the bad while it is here with the help of those around us. Stopping the blame game. Appreciating every damn good thing around us. Every sunrise. Every hug. Every held hand. Every first cry. Every final breath. For what it is. A gift. Not to be squandered but to be fully appreciated and enjoyed and shared. For what is in the light, held fervently with love will be appreciated. It is what we keep in the dark, in secret that holds us all prisoner. There is no shame except what we bring on ourselves believing something that is only meant to give us a false sense of control. Acceptance of a state of an imperfect world and imperfect people give us a chance of real life and real love. Fearing change, fearing loss, fearing death, those are things that keep us from actually living. It isn’t rocket science. We don’t need to do more research as it’s al ready there, the proof, we just don’t want to accept it’s that easy. We keep trying to make it more complicated because we don’t like the answer that fear is of our choosing. History shows us clearly life is hard. It is only up to us to accept it. Embrace the reality of it. And start living it day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute appreciating each and every one as the gift it truly is. Stop arguing, fighting and trying to prove how right we are about our way of living and believe the things that make us feel we have more control because if any of us truly did, there’d be some difference in our realities. Instead, we are all still just here living this hard life, instead of helping each other through it. We are wasting time, energy and love with these squabbles instead of focusing on all the right and pure and good things in this world. So yes, I think he’s pissed off and disappointed and he wants us to get our shit together. Be good to each other. Love each other. Talk to each other. Listen to each other. Not to be right or wrong, but to enjoy the fellowship of the conversation. Neither one needs to be right or wrong, it’s not conversing if it becomes a fight. It’s opinion and conjecture and it’s meant to stimulate thinking not become something wars are fought over.

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