June 17

HUMILITY MONTH: DAY 17: “Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.” ― Tom Hiddleston

This quote says a lot. But, for me, the simple truth is this: All I know has been the history of my life up to this moment. If I use what I know as an application for my future, all I can do is RECREATE the past. Most of us do this dance for too many of our years anyway.

To step into a new day, a new moment, a new piece of life, I will have to trust that I cannot KNOW a damned thing! So, that keeps me young and hungry and foolish and curious…all of which keep me humble.

I do not believe in “bitter twists of fate.” I believe, deeply, in life renewing itself all the time, shifting and changing and rearranging the energy of the entire Universe. That is what LIFE IS! Oh! So, of course it will not be REALLY like “Groundhog Day” because that was a silly movie.

However, as my beautiful sponsor used to say, “Alcoholics love their ruts. They hang curtains and paper the walls and live right down in there.” We believe routine is safe. We believe that when nothing appears to have changed, we “got this” which is the most insane thing of all time!

Life is beautiful and magical and always full of change. That is the way Universal Power created all that is. For us to believe that any moment in time is ever “standing still” is ridiculous. But that is always the message of Ego; “Change is bad and scary.” No, life is change and change is life.

So, I would rewrite this quote to say:

“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when life will surprise the shit out of you with a miracle, a new love, an infant, the perfect sunset, or something guaranteed to make you feel more alive than ever before.”

Now, that is not very humble of me; of course. I know I am inclined to show my arrogance here by disagreeing with a quote that very much spoke to me of humility when I chose it last month. And so it goes, and so it goes.

It is so very important for me to always remember, though, that my answers only capture the past and keep recreating it. I want the new, I want the miraculous, and I want to feel more alive than ever before!