This life
I created.
Everything I do,
I created –
with my thoughts
my actions (right or wrong)
my beliefs
my steps
forward (and back).
Each decision I made,
each step I took along this
dirt path – I created.
I chose
with awareness (sometimes without) –
my happiness;
the family I wanted
(who love and cherish and share with me);
the daily rhythm of my life
(the quietness, the spaces between, the fullness.)
Too, I created
stresses in my life
the anger and suffering
even the pain (physical and mental).
It’s a choice.
All of it -
how I live,
what I do with
my body
my mind –
I chose it.
And
I’m proud of these choices. Happy.
(And also
utterly grateful
I get so many
choices.)
Because
I chose it all knowingly (sometimes not).
I created –
the peace I live
the way I love
the efficiency of doing just enough –
no excesses.
the rhythm of my family life –
space to breath, time to be,
very little rushrushrush.
That doesn’t make me any
less
because I opted out of a
traditional lifestyle.
Making money isn’t everything
I choose to make other things,
love
peace
happiness
with creativity, empathy, joy,
to help others as well as myself,
to help the earth beneath my feet,
to help the air I breath.
‘Contributing To Society’ –
What does that mean?
Making money?
To spend
to help rich people get richer?
to boost the ‘economy’
(what’s that?
A thought, in some strangers’ minds.
It isn’t real!)
I prefer to contribute to humanity
(not this so called society people talk of)
By sharing –
ideas
love
healing
By helping out when I can (or even when I ‘cannot’)
By helping the planet we
ALL
live on.
These are real things –
tangible, touchable, tasteable
(not thoughts in
other peoples' heads).
I’m creating this life –
it’s not perfect
I still create stress and suffering.
I’m not perfect
(far from it)
But with awareness I can
slowly
create a more fulfilling life.
Helping others in small ways
or big ways
little step by little step –
I’ll get there.
So maybe my ideas
and your ideas
don’t meet
(or even cross)
Maybe we don’t tread the same path
(mine’s dirt
yours is tarmac!)
But I’ll continue to live
this life I created
Just as you will live yours
and maybe, one day, you will understand and accept
my choices, just as
I accept you.
Namaste.
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