Some days

Some days are better than others. There are those days when the sun keeps shining on your face, and the wind keeps blowing in your back. There are those days when everything seems to come about effortlessly; just think the thought and it happens…

And then there are the days when we have a ‘bad hair day’. When the wind keeps pushing us all directions, and the sun is nowhere to be found. The days when, no matter how hard we work at it, nothing seems to happen quite the way we had envisioned it.

Perhaps the hardest thing to take away from this observation is that ‘bad weather’ isn’t punishing us, and that we are not the cause of everything someone else is choosing to do. However, balancing out the good days and the ‘bad hair days’ is something that falls entirely unto ourselves.

The thought behind it is that we create everything in our lives ~ or more precisely, we create our lives from second to second; minute to minute.
Through our attitudes, the way we act and react, the way we handle things we bring ‘stuff’ into our lives that can either bring about a ‘sunny day’ or a ‘stormy day’. Even the people we have to deal with on those days and their attitudes are ~ to a certain extend ~ our creation as our discomfort may feed their discomfort; our frustrations feed theirs, etc.

Therefore, in order to change our ‘stormy days’ into more pleasant days, it is a good idea to take an honest look inside of ourselves and see what our part in it truly is. Once we have seen that, we can choose to change it in ourselves.

On a global scale the same is true. Especially as the world ‘is getting smaller and smaller’, and newscasts are making us aware of pretty much everything that is happening in any corner of our world. Our personal little frustrations can feed the violent outbursts in other parts of the world. An attitude of ‘us against them’, even when it is all in good fun, for instance in sports, can feed the divisiveness in the world. And when we consider ourselves better than anyone else ~ whether it is based on education, experience, or any spiritual practice we adhere to ~ our thoughts can feed conflict elsewhere…

Personally I like calm, sunny days in my life, those days when everything I do seems to happen easily and with grace…

So, May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
And may the sun shine warm upon your face.
(Part of a traditional Gaelic Blessing)
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