Wisdom

I think this is the key to the serenity prayer. If you know what you can change in your life and what you can't, it will save countless hours of frustration and worry.

For instance, any time at all spent wishing to change the past, is wasted effort. The past continues to remain unchangeable. Bummer.

I was talking to a friend about "living in the 'now'", which is moderately difficult, due to our perceiving life only after it has happened. "Now" is always here, but we never experience it. My motto is: there is no "now", there is only perception, intention and action. Now, this may not be the ultimate answer to the universally relevant conundrum, but, if you think about it, it covers a lot of bases.

But we were talking about the wisdom to know what we can and cannot change, and I submit that we can only change ourselves. We can change our perception of the past and change our intention for the future and change our actions to match our new intentions. Well, assuming there are patterns which occasion adjustment, or some such.

I think it's safe to say we all desire to have wisdom. I also think we have it, but just don't always listen to it. Sometimes, I get so caught up in the game, I forget I'm a player, and make "mistakes" due to an oversight or lack of foresight or just plain crazy balls to the wall who gives a flying fuck, let's do it. It's good when I remember not to take everything so seriously. A very wise man once said that it is all vanity. Don't worry so much about riches and fame or food and clothing. We're all becoming dust again soon enough, anyway. Now, if the, arguably, I'll concede, wisest man in the world says it, it might very well be true.

So, I cannot change the fact that I blew the chance to get that girl's number, but I can learn from it, change my intention and then my actions, and be snuggling in front of "Singing in the Rain", or whatever, in no time! Isn't wisdom fun?


Yours,


D


P.S. So, I can be serene all the time, even when I'm being courageous and changing the things wisdom says I can. Cool. "Gotta dance!"