Going With The Flow

Benedicamus Domino!

Going with the flow seems to me to be a requirement for living a more joy-filled life. No matter how much we might think ourselves hard-done-by in life, I think that for most small misfortunes, the best course of action is to accept them and to just go with the flow.

Of course, this is easy for me to say, as even though my usual computer has decided to play dead for a while and must go in for repairs, I am not without computing abilities, as this blog entry will attest.

So, what then is needed for one to truly go with the flow, to truly accept a real misfortune with some kind of equinimity, even when there is no immediate remedy in sight? I think hope is one thing that is needed: a generally optimistic outlook on life. This need not be something made of candy hearts and flowers, but I believe that there can be a very practical type of optimism which is born out of the notion that nothing in our lives lasts forever. There can be a strange sort of comfort to be had when we truly consider all in life to be transitory and fleeting. We begin to want things less and less, and so are less perturbed when we lose them. This is not to say that we become apathetic about life, but I think we become more respectful of it, more careful of each moment and how it is used, while at the same time truly embracing the fact that loss is inevitable but love is the thing that endures.

Now, I will hasten to add that I have not reached this level of awareness as yet. Right now, if I did not have a working computer to use, I would be going stir-crazy with the hopefully temporary loss of my laptop: the laptop on which I have all my creative efforts and which I have working just the way I want it. What I have to remember is that I have it pretty good in this life! I should be grateful for this old and clunky machine on which I am currently working, because even though it is unbelievably slow and difficult to manage, it is still a working computer. So instead of moaning about the annoying loss of the other computer, I should be enjoying the fact that I still have this one. Ok, so here I go. I'm going to enjoy it. I really am! Really, really, really! :)

Deo Gratias!