HOPE MONTH: DAY 14: “It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.” ― C.J. Redwine
It’s not anyone’s job to tell us these things. But holding out hope for those who feel they are hopeless is a great reminder.
Our human spirits are amazing! They are powerfully strong and resilient and built around hope. Cycles of life prove that we are going to have ups and downs, and get to live through every emotional space on the wheel.
Yay! We addicts are funny folks. We get a crazy notion that things are supposed to be a certain way, and when life is not that, we get upset and hurt. Disappointment turns into resentment. Why? Because we somehow have an entitlement and expectation thing going on with life.
Life is going to be exactly what we have put into it. I love when newer members seem to believe it is going to shift just because they are finally doing the right thing(s) in life.
Whether you call it karma or justice or the cycle of life, things will be exactly the way they need to be for our best benefit. Hope means that we learn to see life through a different set of eyes.
We stop looking for OUR way all the time, and see the beauty and richness of each moment.
I was talking to a friend yesterday who said she enjoyed sitting with me, because I am so damned happy just to see the sun shining; even when there has NOT been a lot of rain. She talked about how much it was a breath of fresh air to sit and talk with someone who has no riches but is always so excited just for another day and the beach and the hikes and walks and to have fingers and toes. I talk about these things.
Especially when I sit with someone who is going through a tough moment. She is in her last months of life and not feeling her best. But she enjoyed hanging out and talking about the joy of a sunny afternoon on the beach. What a blessing!
We forget to spend moments in hope and loving life just the way it is. Talking to people in prison, which, I find is my highest calling, I tell them every time I have pockets full of hope for them and their lives. If you want to feel hope, talk to someone who has so little and still finds happiness in a phone call, a letter, a card or a visit.
Some of the unhappiest people I know are those who have immense financial and personal success. They do not feel like it what they thought it would be. They spend a lifetime striving and working toward a pinnacle, then look around and feel completely devastated by the emptiness of it all.
Happiness comes without conditions, without bows or bells, with or without a soul mate or partner, without the trappings of material wealth or things. Happiness lives in my heart and makes, for me, a sunny day become a symphony of pleasure and wealth.
My hope is always that you may find this to be true and to find the happiness in your heart that is buried under all the shit you believe and acquire and think is going to make you happy. It is a state of living with fulfillment and peace and joy with what is. That is why I carry pockets full of hope; you need nothing else.
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