Lately I've been really overwhelmed with keeping up with everything, I've found myself festering so long on a given task, worried about not perfecting at whatever I am trying to do, and by doing this I waste a lot of time. I waste a lot of time thinking or worrying about what needs to be done instead of just doing it. I bring this up because, also in my schedule I still have my conscious contact by prayer and reading some sort of religious literature. Just in the last two months, I have finished a year long journey of reading the Bible, then moved to the Qur'an, the Tao, and now I am on the Gita. Throughout all these literary masterpieces, one main theme seems to be sticking out to me the clearest, and that is to take the Middle Path. I don't need to direct myself in one direction or the either, I just need to stick between the lines and just follow what is put in front of me. Afterall, sometimes the best things are found when we aren't looking.
I know I talk about letting things happen with the flow of life a lot, but it is difficult to know that is what you have to do and just let life happen. So many variables throughout our days, weeks, or past experiences give us a little bit of push one way or the other, so naturally we want to listen to them and follow the path we know or stay clear of it due to bad outcomes in the path. This usually leaves us with a battle in our own mind of what we know what to do and what things were like in a similar situation. We people of habit, conditioning, a with multiple layers of hurt/trauma or some other life changing experience, this is the key moment and just let things be. Take the middle way, play the cards that God has dealt you right now at that given moment. Be present! There is a whole beautiful world with beautiful creatures in it, we need to get out of our own heads or off social media and participate in life. Do the things that make YOU happy, not just to appease others. Life happens with or without us, it's our choice if we are going to be active members in it or just wait for the highlights pass us by.
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