To be or not to be, that is the question.

 

To be or not to be, that is the question.

I am blessed, as we all are, with the freedom to choose, it is a precious gift. Every moment is an opportunity to “start from now.” So what is it that we want to be? I don’t know about you, but I want to be happy. Happy doesn’t come at a cost, it simple comes from the way we choose to think. I try to think optimistically because it allows me to see things in their entirety, and in the right relations. It’s not easy because there’s always those things outside of our control that pull us into a pessimistic attitude. Before we know it, we are looking at things from a limited and one-sided point of view.  The goodness often lies beneath the muck, as my mother-in-law would say, “the muck becomes the goodness that makes the best gravy.”  If I choose to be optimistic, I open myself to understanding, truth and the wisdom that is already in me.  We create our own reality buy building our world around the view-point we choose to hold onto, and that is where we reside.   How I choose to be not only affects me, but it touches you as well. I can’t do anything to change the way someone else thinks, but I can do something about how my thinking affects you.

To be or not to be? The only hard thing about the question is the question itself.