Life Interrupted

A good friend of mine is undergoing a testing time, her husband is in hospital in critical condition and from one minute to the next noone is sure whether he will pull through or not.

Things had been going well before this interruption, and it was quite a surprise to everyone to go from seeming normality to living with the prospect of losing someone so close and all its implications.

I usually prefer to stay away from specifics and talk at a more universal level, but something so personal and impactful serves to bring home a few messages. Life can be interrupted at anytime, live like there is no tomorrow.

A theme that has been following me for a few weeks now has been to relax and care less. My idealistic tendencies sometimes get me wrapped up in my own world, or the one that I desire were true to the extent that I forget some of the aspects of the real one around me. A message I've been resurrecting for myself is to relax, allow things to unfold and to experience myself in that unfoldment.

In the flow of life there are a few certain things and as much as we are trained otherwise in our mass media driven world, death is no loss. In nature, death is always accompanied by life. To take a thread from this, relax and allow the cycles of life to spin ever upward, relax in that connection to all that is and have faith that your intentions are being acted upon, always.

To hear someone say 'care less' could be construed as reducing the amount of care or involvement with a thing. In fact to me it means something different. Sometimes I am burdened by my capacity for thought and processing, to the point of being 'involved' in too many things.

I know I am not alone in this, despite being told that we are only using 5%, 8% or 10% of our brain power, I feel that quality vs quantity can be debated and that you personally can influence this equation. The point here for me though, is to care less as in to care about fewer things. Naturally having one goal is better than a hundred, at least in terms of expectations and results.

To tie this waffling post together, death, loss, relax, caring less. Sometimes distraction leads us to forget that there is a cycle to life, it cannot be avoided, but life always follows death. Each closed door leads to another open one. Relax and give over control to those cycles, to the inevitable and let them play out. Allow yourself to be yourself within that. Care about less, the fewer things and outcomes we are attached to, the greater the quality of the experience.

Peace,
-Mikel