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Posted on: August 19, 2012
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Letting go of attachments
is not easy even when it is
clear the attachment no longer
serves you. I have a favorite
dress that is loose, comfortable
and tattered. It is soft, faded
and even the poor would not want
it, but I love it. I keep piecing
the holes together until it is
clear even to me that it must go!
Yet it remains in my closet and
when I once again slip into it, I
pray nobody will come while I am
wearing it and I won’t die in it
and embarrass my long gone mother
who forbade us to exit the house
in tattered underwear in case
a truck hit us.
What other attachments do I have,
I wonder. We can be attached to
many different things besides
material objects…relationships
long past their time, habits, even
outmoded thinking and opinions.
What do we get from attachments that
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Posted on: August 19, 2012
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I’ve always thought that life is what you make it
and I’ve learned that sometimes it’s just whatever we allow it to become
but, the best part is that it can be what you make it about any time
change is inevitable anyway
so put in the awareness and forethought to make it as happy as you can
the campfire rule of leaving people and places in as good or better a state than when you encounter them
life can be just that simple
making it the best it can be
and not just make the best of it………
Just about the time
we figure out what life
is all about, some clown
says, “Yeah, but what about….”
and our house of cards tumbles.
What if life is not “about”
anything, but simply is?
Could you live with that?
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