I get to watch the Giants in 30 minutes.
Thich Nhat Hanh once wrote, “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion” I too vow to live the day with compassion and joy. I intend to make the most out of each day. I will imbibe joy as much as possible. I will not dwell in the negative and I will be happy with who I am as an individual. All my faults, all my bad parts are equal in sum to my good parts. They together make me the person that I am and I must embrace that person.
This does not mean I do not strive to be better. I accept who I am and where I am. For example, I tend to dwell on things that don’t matter at all to others–taking me out of the moment I am in with them and into the moment of dwell. I can control when that happens. I can be far more present. I can do this and still dwell in an appropriate time and place when it does not impact those around me.
I must learn to embrace these difficulties as challenges to be overcome. As I stand I have allowed myself to become overwhelmed by challenges. This must not be so. Every challenge has its place in the hierarchy and I must learn to establish both that hierarchy and the ability to shift between challenges when I have an appropriate means to respond.