Yesterday, we had to sit in some traffic and then we had to wait in line at a fast food place. I was annoyed and here’s why. First, though, let me say that I know many people will judge me and say I’m not very advanced if I don’t know how to use times of waiting for spiritual purposes. My response: I know how to. I don’t want to.
Although we live in eternity, what’s also true is that we live on this planet a certain number of years and then move on. People can sugar-coat that all they want to with platitudes about how we live forever and time is just an illusion. We live in these bodies on this planet a certain number of years and then we move on. For me, it has always been important how I use my time. Maybe I got this attitude from my mother.
One of the best admonitions I’ve heard is this one. Choose the books you read carefully because for every book you read, there is another you can’t read. I have expanded this to include all choices about how I use my time. Whatever I choose to do means there is something else I can’t do. If I choose to spend 30 minutes pulling weeds, that is 30 minutes I can’t spend crocheting.
Is this coming from a sense of lack? Or does it come from a sense of treasuring my time on this planet? The older I get, the longer I live, the more I realize how precious this lifetime is and the more consciousness I want to bring to my choices. When others impose themselves onto my timeline and try to steal some of my minutes, hours, or days, I will be gracious. I will do my best not to get annoyed. I will also do my best to keep them away from my timeline in the future.
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We are wending our way through. I don't like waiting either, but I am looking for why I get upset over it. Must be a signal to let go or (spiritually) grow somehow..
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