Relationships end. People are laid off. The future is not written in stone but the Sun is sure to rise tomorrow. If it doesn’t we have bigger problems to worry about.
If we cleave to tomorrow, we will certainly be disappointed. Something little insignificant detail will trip us up, catch and tear our shirt, or perhaps ruin our day if we let it.
People fall out of love, and worse cheat, lie and perform acts of cruelty to the ones they are supposed to love. It could happen to all of us. It probably has in some form or fashion throughout our lives. We are let down and hurt.
Probably too each one of us has had a job not work out, have been fired, or quit because after the honeymoon phase we realized we hate the job we thought we’d love. It happens.
The best we can do is realize that shit happens, deal with it and move on. Learn from it and move on. Grow from it and move on.
The beauty of uncertainty is this – adversity creates opportunity. Chaos will raddle the rafters and cause the foundation to crumble. But, it is within the noise and the commotion that the truth and the magic present itself. Your grandmother dies and everyone mourns and feels the loss and honors her life at the services. Later when you go to clean out her attic, a priceless diamond broach falls from a pile of old papers. From the papers, some old deeds or some old bonds are discovered. Because uncertainty can be beautiful in and of the moment treasure can be found. Fortunes and futures can take form. Because when those items were set aside the future was uncertain and yet even imagined.
When you lose your job or your love and tumult rules the day, keep your eyes open, your mind open, and your heart open to the shards of possibility. Because even though uncertainty is the unknown so are the glimmers of all that could be.
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