Each day I chant my matra, ‘live in the moment.’ It is part of a new way of life I believe will free me from unreasonable life expectations. Of course, certain expectations are, well, expected. But so often the things that hinder me most, leaving me feeling disappointed, are those things I expected, which were outside of my control. I’ve come to realize that anything outside of my control, should not have a condition placed on it. There is no way to determine what will happen. The future of the majority of things are unstable and unpredictable.
Releasing myself from the habit of holding an expectation of unpredictable things is difficult, and a habit most of us have developed. In small ways I’ve already begun to see the rewards of living in the moment. It is liberating. I no longer have to hold my emotions hostage in anticipation of something good, or something I desired.
Living in the moment frees my spirit, allowing me to see the beauty of now, with the knowledge that today could be my last day. Recognizing that all the possibilities of my life exist in this hour, this minute–this understanding raises my appreciation of life and its fragility. Now is all that’s promised to me–I will embrace it, and be thankful I had this moment to share a part of me with the world, and receive a glimpse of the beauty that surrounds me.
This moment is all I have and ever will.
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Hi Pittershawn.
Nice blogs you got goin’ there. Congrats on your book. Don’t know if you remember me, I went to Truman (supposed to graduate in ’85) didn’t though. I saw the reunion pics, pretty cool!
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Pittershawn…
Getting to know you is like discovering treasures that lie deep beneath the oceans vast surface. Or like finding out things that have been hidden in the universe from all but the most seeing eyes. It’s like for years people walk along and don’t notice things and then you come along and say, look, it is right there, behind Jupiter… And you go, “Well I’ll be D…:)”
You are a vision that allows people to remember dreams are important again…Plus, I don’t dig sappy poems myself but the above is true, it is how the Last Panther feels when I read your writings. You already know that I think you’re one of the most beautiful women to ever live, and what makes you more beautiful is that you put no importance in that and continue to evolve as a soul seeking a higher plane of understanding, knowledge, and the true purpose of our existence.
Now to the subject of Aquarius, I wish I shared your lovely optimism. But having been to war and having people I know who are going back all too soon, and having people I once worked with that are dead or missing a leg etc, it is hard to grab a hold of this change is coming concept. What is really unnerving is with all the atrocities taking place in the world, there are others that are completely oblivious to anything but thier own particular realms.
I know what it’s like to come back from the front lines and see people arguing about parking spaces. Priorities are quite simply put, lost and not even recognizable. There is this apparently universal “Dumbness” where I have to agree with one of the ones who commented above this… People seem to be doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. And then defending it like repetition or more words eloquently put or rather in most cases shouted with lots of derogatory pepperings will make it “FLY”…
You see the DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS… I see the END OF DAYS…
This is from memory so perhaps not verbatim but I wrote it any way:)…
I’m bout sick of the wrong
I’m bout sick of the right
I’m bout sick of the black
I’m bout sick of the white!
Cause the wrong is being buttered up…
And spun with a spin…
And the right is being covered up…
And buried like sin…
I know I don’t have to explain to you that I am speaking of white back ground and black lettering…
Not Black and White People…
White back grounds and black lettering is how we get our news, if you still are of a mind to call it that…
I think personally that there has always been a spiritual war of sorts and that it is escalating to the point where more humans are involved now more then ever before. Jesus put the demons in the pigs and ran the pigs off the cliff that previously identified themselves as “Legion”… When they were in possession of that man. The same demons that were around then are around now. People are doing some of the most heinous things and noone can really “get it” because they continue to try and define the world scientifically. If you consider yourself spiritual you have to admit that spirits and demons as well as angels exist…
Yours is a lovely spirit and perhaps you and others like you can get me to think in other terms because my mind isn’t a closed box, it is a watering ground for all that matters…
I’ve just seen and see so much bad that it is hard for me to grasp that a new day is dawning etc…
I wish for peace, but prepare for war so to speak.
I do want to say this though, in a world where things are running it appears out of control, YOU are a shining light and a beacon of hope that someone like me, gravitates to. Ed Roberts is another one with visions of a better day…
I just wish more people read the works by the two of you.
Sincerely,
and signed with warm thoughts and a wish…
And a perhaps meaningless thought…
Eternity is a place we are in now…
Granted those of you who can read this and draw breath think it awaits for all after we die…
But if you think…
You will realize it was here before you arrived and will be here long after you leave this earthly plane…
So where does that put you?
Perhaps not smack dab in the middle, but suffice it to say…
Your in eternity in your now…
RIGHT NOW…
I have no profound things to say regarding this…
For me it makes me want to make a positive difference in the sea of time…
It’s like I am a boat on an ocean that can be seen for now by other living, breathing beings and then I will vanish…
So I guess the question is…
Where do you yourself think you will find yourself when your not someone that others can reach out and touch?
And are sailing on the wind
Drifting around the stars
Falling in a rain drop
Or a particle in the ink some other writer has in the ink of his or her favorite pen?
I will think
That I have always been in the sea of eternity
And although it has been a rough ride on the life side
I would hope that I leave behind me more…
Hope then dispair
More love then hate
More givingness then greed
More caring then selfishness
More laughter then anger
More kindness then rudness
More of the things that I would want beside me
When I am no longer a physical being and ride the seas and oceans of time for forever
Eternity has always been here
Your in it
Right Now…
In the broader sense you always have been
If you doubt that I will go one step further and tell you believe me or don’t believe me..
But…
You also
Always will be…
By Chase von
tlp
Love to you Pittershawn
(Yeah, wrote this this morning, I usually have to walk away and then view later to see if it is any good, but, it being good isn’t the point, it is me signing a beautiful souls page and leaving pieces of myself behind for view)…
CV
tlp
http://www.webspawner.com/users/chasevon/
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