This Too Shall Pass

As we go about our daily business there will be times when less than favorable circumstances will find their way into our carefully structured lives and throw everything out of balance and into chaos. The very idea that our worlds can be upset and transformed at a moment's notice reinforces the fact that we do not and will not ever have control over every aspect of our existence.

We are foremost creatures of habit. If you take the time to look at how you spend your life on a daily basis you will find that not much changes day in and day out. This leads to not much changing in weeks and months and ultimately years. When something happens that causes us to redirect our lives we are thrown into panic. Because we spend so much time constructing a future which can never exist, when faced with the reality of our unintended circumstances, we have no idea how we will ever get through it.

But we do.

Perhaps if we were able to see the larger picture of our lives as a whole and not in the linear fashion we are accustomed to, we could possibly understand the purpose of why things happen as they do. When the view is myopic and we are only concerned with the very event so much so that it clouds our judgement, we will find it difficult to see the experience for what it is. The flip side to that is that until sufficient time passes it will not be apparent.

I can only imagine God (Creator, Universe...whatever your choice of title is) looking at us in panorama and saying "Tsk, tsk, tsk. If he or she only knew how important this event is for who they are to be..."

And we don't.

We have no idea what the larger picture is. There is absolutely no way to figure that out. The only thing we can do is to just let each experience speak for itself and create the person we are meant to be. That is not the person our parents, our spouses (significant others), our children, our friends, our co-workers...etc expect us to be, but to find it in ourselves the strength and the vulnerability to acknowledge that there are things that we just have to have the courage to see though in order for us to have the experiences that ultimately make our lives rich.