That small voice within seems to always be saying "there's more to life than playing the game the way it's always been played". No one should suggest pulling up the covers and waiting to die is a viable road to happiness. I don't mean one should go out and do something stupid but I do mean one should begin listening to the still and all so small voice from within. Forget about whining and complaining! Neither are rituals for happiness yet we think it's our right to bitch, making it even harder to shake that habit. Maybe some of the complaining comes from a feeling of entitlement or maybe we become crotchety because we have been whining and complaining all our lives.
Do we ever really take a good look at what lives in our heart of hearts or our soul of souls? If we do, there will always be something that we can make excuses for by trying to justify that surviving and making it through is good enough. Destiny, fate, DNA or what ever our excuse is for nitpicking in paradise, patience and gratitude are the only two things that can clarify our sight.
Just about the time we begin to think we are controlling our destiny something comes along and smacks us in the head giving us a reason to complain. Patience and gratitude seem to be as far away as the North Pole yet in our rush to bitch we still have food, shelter and oxygen where in lives patience and gratitude.
Yes I whine and complain just like everyone else but I find myself doing much less of it these days. I've learned to keep warm with patience and gratitude realizing that I don't have to pull the covers up and wait to die.
BroBlog.....LR told me about your website and I so enjoy the pictures of the places you frequent.
ReplyDeleteToday's commentary in my opinion does not fit just a few of us....it fits ALL of us. As we mature
(or at least some of us) we tend to appreciate life and whine less. We work harder at placing ourselves in the positions less likely for us to complain possibly because we are tired of dealing with garbage. I for one likes to chaulk it all up to "fulfilling my karma" as I call it...and you know what I mean. Maybe I will get a gold star when I go home. Keep up the great work Brent.
KW
Don't know if it's because I'm getting older.....but I've learned to whine about various things only will cause myself to forgot all the positive things in my life! Therefore I do not whine and I realize that I am blessed every day of my life!!!
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I agree--great article Bro Blog....but ybb we are all blessed !!! --- but you do whine in your own way....and that is OK----because that is how we vent and let things out and it makes us feel better....
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Once again LR is running off at the pie hole! No ybb does not whine! And speaking of pie holes.........that pie hole of LR's comes from a extra large pie!
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