Life Lessons!!

I love this quote and I try to apply it to my life. It's a work in progress though!!. Sometimes I get sick of trying to figure out the lesson but I do know that deep down its the only way to live. Life is a combination of ups and downs and there's no doubt about it if it was all "ups" sure we'd learn nothing!!

Now some people seem to sail through life, or at least that's what we think, but how do we really know what's going on for them. How do we really know what is going on behind the outer smiles? The simple answer to that is we don't, how could we?.

Sometimes we can look around a crowded room where everyone is chatting and smiling and think they haven't a care in the world. I'm guilty of this one especially if I'm struggling with something myself. I can have a tendency to go into total self pity mode and think "poor me, another flippin lesson to learn, go pick someone else for a change"!! .

But,as I said earlier we don't have a clue what's really going on for anyone else. So the lesson is we stop focusing on our perception of others and focus on ourselves. It's actually quite amazing when that penny drops for us.

When it does, it stops all sorts of nonsense that just wastes our valuable energy. Things like trying to be like someone else, live ..even.... look like someone else, envying someone else, sure the list is endless.

Then we really start to learn because like the quote says " we learn to sit at the feet of our own life and be taught by it". It's a work in progress but there really is no other way. Getting to know ourselves is a life long lesson .

There are times I get sick of myself and that's okay but I do know that as I sit at the feet of my own life and look inwards I see a human doing her best. I see my faults, my weaknesses, my good bits and my bad bits . I see that each challenge gives me the tools for the next one that comes along. I see sadness, happiness, love...so much love. Ultimately then I see acceptance of all of me and that allows me to be as real as I can possibly be. And now and again I feel sorry for myself too.

I've just had a thought!! Imagine, if I spent my time looking at everyone's else's life sure I wouldn't know myself at all and then how would I cope!!.

I sometimes wonder am I making any sense at all.............................

Bernie xx