7/21/2023 0 Comments Day #12 - The Air we breatheAt 4AM last night, I woke up calm, deeply relaxed and alert. Yesterday, I had written a post about failure and learning from failure, and my mind / body / feelings were still digesting the learning. My topic was not getting into any of the colleges of my choice. My wife’s failure (she is also doing the 21-day pod), was about coming in 2nd in a teenage hula-hoop contest, when she could have easily come in first. Both experiences left their marks on us.
From my calm and open state, I asked this presence that was within me (which felt like deep thinking and feeling) if there was another way to understand these, for us, traumatic events. “Have you considered that in the early years, when security, belonging and doing well are of utmost importance, it is the very air we breathe. To not breathe this air would be impossible. It is everywhere including our parents, schools, friends, TV, advertising and at the core of our culture. Consider the importance of being #1, getting a good job, meeting the right spouse, wanting the same for our children and grandchildren, and living the American or most other culture’s “dream.” It is the air we breathe.” I responded or had the thought “But, I don’t feel pulled by this too much these days, at least not all the time.” “Yes, and at those times, you are literally breathing different air. Look at your life especially over the past six years. So much love, so many accomplishments, and yet you feel that you don’t do much. Your most consistent emotion is appreciation or gratitude and simply enjoying what’s in front of you. Of course, not all the time but enough. And enough really is enough!”
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