We ruminate a play-by-play of the event
unable to change the outcome
it is suffering by our own hand
we inflict the pain and punishment
Eventually it gets replaced by the next mistake.
That one takes center stage,
replaying the part that can never change
Why do we do this to ourselves?
I believe the mind wants to turn the events over
and over searching to find the solution
so we don’t keep making the same mistake.
I am learning to change the script.
Mistakes make me human.
They help me to grow and evolve.
The experiences shape who I am at its core
I don’t want to avoid, ridicule or shame myself
for the past.
Now when I make a mistake,
I gently say, “Aren’t you incredibly human?”
This is the love and acceptance that we long for
And it was here all along.
I am grateful for the lessons learned.
Tag: solution
Each generation
Each generation faces its own
struggle and strife.
We demand answers to our questions.
We search for firm footing.
The answers are not so clearcut
bold and obvious – though sometimes they are.
Simple solutions seem almost laughable.
The riddle rattles around in our head.
It tumbles and rolls quiet
like a desert weed across a vast landscape
or loud
like coins in a canister
we shake up and down
or a magic ball that should solve all!
Conclusive, personal it is not.
And what of the scholar who writes and reads
scouring pages upon pages
fixed wood in their hands.
The letters fall off the page.
Can I pluck them off one by one
and make sense of the chatter?
The noise that rattles.
It morphs from chatter to laughter,
sob and sigh.
A tooth-saw grin etched into wood.
A permanent mark of what I once understood.
Boredom
Boredom is good
To find your inner reservoir
Your creativity.
Your solutions are needed
And this is the practice arena.
Lucid Dreaming
Here but in another time,
Another space.
Feet feel planted on two different lands.
One grounded, safe and calm.
The other commotion, problems in need of solutions.
I teeter and balance between both worlds.
Healing Insights 