Infinite Ink

Keep calm and carry on

I've hit the ceiling and I found out that it hits back. I've fallen hard and been bitten by the cold, hard ground. I've tried to go sideways, and got lost in mazes. In short, 2016 has been a challenging year for me, personally. While there was enough going on in the public sphere to make anyone nervous, I went through my own internal struggle along with striving to make myself understood among those nearest to me.

Look at the world and you wonder how far we have fallen, and how high we could soar, if only we worked together. It is the basic human connection that has been lost, and which must be revived, before anything of substance can be achieved on any level.

The original "keep calm and..." was "keep calm and carry on", and no, it wasn't meant to be funny. It was a motto handed to the citizens to live by while their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons fought the war far from home.

We must learn to respect ourselves first, and value our own selves first, before even looking at the possible changes that can be carried out by other people around us. We have a tendency to focus outward, and therefore ignore our inner reality.

There is no escape from reality. There is no other body to inhabit, if we abuse the one we have to the point where it begins to malfunction. The mind may be limitless but the brain is a physical entity that requires food and water.

Like Baba says, one step at a time. I'm being even more careful and taking baby steps. For too long have I tried to run ahead and leave troublesome matters behind me. When all the trial and trouble caught up with me, I had a hard time figuring it all out. Don't borrow trouble from tomorrow, today has enough--that's what they say. I wish I had listened.

Enough. No more self destructive behavior. No more excuses. I have to get up and smile. Otherwise, how will my inner light shine?