“Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.” —- Mark Twain
These words taken from Mark Twain, have never been so glaringly obvious when applied to ourselves. Evaluating your conscious participation in where you find yourself right now, in this very moment is your responsibility, you can’t hand it off to anyone else. Eventually it returns to haunt the rest of your life. How have you allowed yourself to be an option in another’s life? You really don’t need to look very far, because your parents, spouse, children, family, friends or acquaintances may be contributing to your passivity and oblivion simply because you permit it. That’s right. You have willingly allowed yourself to become non-essential. Stephen Covey looks at it another way, “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are —- or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
Conscious participation demands a field of expectancy, allowing our consciousness to attract into our lives exactly what we desire. Thought is an extremely powerful tool and skill set that to few individuals dismiss out of hand as implausible nonsense. Not so fast . . . as what you expect will show up in your life. Why not create an environment of optimism, positive energy and productive goals . . . consciously. This can be experienced at any time in your life’s journey . . . it needs your input through the willingness to recognize and become receptive to that expectancy. It is not impossible, as James Joyce reiterates . . . “A man of genius makes no mistakes, his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
The Conscious Dilemma then becomes the question . . . what to do? When you realize that you have within your essence that spark of creativity that may change the rest of your life, the next thought, step or action becomes almost illusive depending upon how you implement your present skill sets and resources. Erase from your peripheral thinking that it may be to late, because this encroaches on losing the race before it starts. Nothing worth fighting for is ever easy, and I was always given great advice when told from many individuals to, pick your battles wisely. There is always the choice to continue plodding along the same thinking, behavior and non-involved merry-go-round that you find yourself as you read these words. How’s that working for you? Ready to try something else before you leave this earth? Remove the toxity from your life and make the conscious choice through participation, savoring the words of Thick Nhat Hanh . . . “The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.” JLR