A world we love to hate
Copyright 2006 llbglobal
Imagine for a moment that you decide to take a drive on a nice Sunday afternoon. The sun is out and it’s a beautiful warm day. When you leave on this journey you have no purpose for driving to a specific location and your intent is simply to take in your surroundings. As you drive, you decide to take a country road with little or no traffic. You gaze out at the passing landscape, the fields and pastures go by one after another.
After driving for some thirty minutes without seeing another person or car you see an intersection ahead. As you slow the car another driver approaching from the east is heading towards the same intersection. As your car comes to a stop at the intersection so does the other car. You make eye contact with the other driver. At the same moment you both nod to one another as if to kindly gesture each other to go forward. Now you become confused, should you go first or let the other person go first. You both have this same feeling although no words have been spoken aloud. You nod again at the person and finally they proceed to pull forward and through the intersection.
As you pull forward and begin to drive away you are overcome with a sense of joy simply because you allowed the other person to go first. Now you begin to wonder what events in that person’s life lead them to that intersection at the exact same moment as you. Were they headed somewhere? Or were they driving without a purpose of getting somewhere as you were?
The events that lead up to your meeting at the intersection although vastly different must be similar in many ways in order for this chance meeting to take place. If the person in the other car had in fact been driving to a specific location maybe they were happy that you let them go through the intersection first. Maybe they felt a sense of relief because they could get to their destination a few moments sooner. Surely we will never know their intent or why they were placed in front of you to begin with.
I think all of us have had these moments and whether we realize it or not it is a direct reflection of how we should be living our lives. We can think of each moment as an intersection. We come to each intersection having to make a choice as to how we should proceed. Should we force the issue and drive ahead without any concern for anyone else? Or could we stop for a moment and realize that we have a choice as to where we go next and in recognizing that we have a choice can we make a conscious decision based on what we believe the outcome will be?
Can we realize that each choice we make will certainly have an outcome? We create each moment and every situation but realizing it as it happens gives us the awareness to see the future outcome. This realization is in fact our awakening to the moment. We are present in the now. We see the choice ahead of us and we see the results. If we make the same choice we would always make then we should expect the same results. But if we recognize the choice, now we can decide a different path and a different outcome.
I have heard and read many things about being enlightened or being spiritual but putting all of that aside, if we simply recognize our choices as they happen then we instantly take responsibility for our own actions and in doing so we create the world we desire instead of the world that we love to hate.
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