So I’m sitting here in what would seem an absolutely unpoetic Jiffy Lube. Getting my TWC van’s oil changed. And I’ve been thinking how I’d love to become a master in the art of life by being able to focus my energy much like legendary masters of kung fu. That’s most likely because I just saw the movie Kung Fu Panda which was awesome by the way. But seriously, some of the characters in that movie were genius’s.
There were lots of little gems in that movie such as “there are no accidents,” and the general theme of to be one with yourself and the world around you. If you’ve ever looked into eastern culture you’ll notice how well their leaders (not political) focus and have peace with their surroundings and what they are given.
I have been known to say (probably only to myself :] ) that life is not a certain thing, or things, but rather a collection of experiences that you in turn make into what you’re view of life is.
That being said, you must know that you’ll never be happy if you never let yourself be. I’m saying this because life is extremely gradual. When you watch a movie, everything is very poetic (depending on the movie) but a lot of the time you’ll go home from a movie and say, “I wish my life was like that.” But in reality you saw the important parts of possibly years and years with huge gaps that would be filled with the mundane day-to-day tasks. If you looked at your life with the same outsiders viewing and just saw the important parts you would see how poetic your life can be. The problem is we are grounded and we only see what’s in front of us, and what’s hard for us to see is that there is poetry being written.
When we ask ourselves “why?!” out of frustration or desperation as to why we are where we are, or why we are doing what we are doing, maybe we should be asking what is God teaching me?
Just know that God, the greatest writer that there ever was/is/will be is telling your story, and if you let him, you will have your happy ending.
