Thursday, February 9, 2012

Wait

This topic brought to the LBC this Friday by Grannymar.

Events. We love them, we fear them, we embrace them, we try to avoid them. None of that matters, for we are tossed into their midst as we hurtle into the future relentlessly, right?

As my son put it yesterday, it's a roll of the dice, Russian Roulette. Some win the lottery and others get cancer. Totally luck of a random draw.

Perhaps, though I don't believe it. But we need not feel like twigs spinning down the stream or leaves tossed on the wind. It is just as valid - and much more effective - to center on our experience and wait for events to catch up to it.

One of the funnier takes on this perspective was given us by W. C. Fields in a movie when he pilots a plane to somewhere in the Arctic. Upon landing, Eskimos with the obligatory white teacher rush to the plane. Fields is asked where he is going and when he replies, "New York," he is informed that he is lost. He replies that he "is right here. It's New York that is lost!"

We are focused and at ease here. Let the events do the work and find us.

8 comments:

  1. As we say in Ireland, take it handy1 The birds will sing again when you are ready to hear them. Hugs.

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    1. This is not a sad posting, GM. It is just a view of life that preceded recent events. I am being a Fossilosopher!

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  2. Wait no more. It's a great day to be alive. Be happy and rejoice, your Stepfather is with God!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. As I said to GM, I am not being sad, Mayo. Neither am I being inactive. Today is indeed a good day!

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  3. ...."is right here. It's New York that is lost!"

    Super! What attitude. Fossy--I too have had a surfeit of hearing about my friends undergoing cancer treatments in the past few weeks. My doctor herself passed away and we had a prayer meeting. It is very difficult when young people get it.

    The whole of India is praying right now for one of our cricketers who is in Sloan undergoing Chemo. We all want to see him back as his belligerent self!

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  4. I love your Fossilosophizing!

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  5. Yes, we are all just exactly where we are. Everything else is lost.

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  6. Ah - here you are. Sorry for your recent troubles. May peace not be slow in dropping by.
    Sometimes your conclusion is indeed the right one.

    www.blackwatertown.wordpress.com

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