Here it is again, yet another opportunity to choose to be or not be crabby/irritable/angry because somebody did something not nice and it leaves me with a choice. By not doing something they should have and then doing something they should not have, I have all this righteous indignation and no place to put it!
This is the third time in about six weeks this has happened. Somebody did not do what they should have and would not own up to it and would not correct what happened. As a friend of mine used to say "Somethin's not right about that" and that would be true.
Here is your crossroad though. Whatcha going to do with all that?
Maybe you have to call a friend who will be supportive in your indignation (Yes! This is lousy!), maybe you write a letter you don't send (Dear Sir, if you were on the receiving end of this, I am sure it would be fixed), maybe you do send it, just because you want to rock the boat. It may not change any future outcomes at all, but for a nano-second, the person who caused it or did this to you, might have proper remorse.
Sometimes this Getting Over It process takes awhile but we do want to get over it. Usually, that anger we are having comes with an internal warning label but, sometimes we ignore ourselves and hang on to that anger for years and years. You've seen it happen, yes? People can be viperous, bitter and resentful, but I have to think, as someone suggested to me, that all that anger is going to turn inward and manifest itself within that person, one day. You reap what you sow. Gravity works whether you believe in that scientific principle or not. Spiritual principles have that scientific and mathematical precision as well. You sow junk, you are going to get junk.
My family member who is a warrior survivor of a double mastectomy puts it in perspective for me. Things that used to bother her before her radiologist forgot to send the not-good reading to her doctor in the first place, no longer matter. They just don't. Breathing matters, living matters, living a great quality of life; these matter!
Good food, friends and family who love you, the savoring of a good wine, the beauty around you each and every moment, these things matter.
Every moment she lives her life without fear, I am totally amazed. When it is time for an oncology check-up, she gets a little toasty but in the day to day, she does not live in her past. She does not allow fear and anger to direct her present nor her future! What a perspective!
We've seen the slogans Got Milk?, Got whatever? How about putting this up on your mirror in that dry erase pen, copy it out and put it up in your car, put it in your I-phone calendar to remind yourself frequently: Got Peace? Got Health? Got Love?
As that famous author said, "Don't sweat the small stuff, and it is all small stuff!" If you have a roof over your head, food to eat and your health, you are the wealthiest person in the world and you should be darn thankful.
Praise the Maker for the beauty of how that flower petal all ties together to attract the bees who make the honey who pollinate the plants that grow our food, that cleans the air and on up and down the food chains and cycles of life. Continually find something to be thankful and grateful for and to be praised. Make yourself do it and it will become so.
I'll start with the sun coming through those tree leaves up there. How awesome is that?
