Non Sequiturs

I am a bit of a Taoist. Not that it is my religion, just that it is a way of living that works best for me most of the time.

I realized a long time ago that most of the big decisions were out of my hands, and many of the others too, if I was honest. For years I fought against that tooth and nail, but it never really changed anything.

The things I was so adamant about back then are irrelevant now and there are new things that are completely beyond my control. The old ones were emotionally painful. The new ones physically painful. Given a choice I don’t know which I would prefer, but fortunately I don’t have a choice, so it doesn’t matter.

Understanding it doesn’t matter it a real step in the right direction, because I don’t have to sit around agonizing over any of it, or feeling sorry for myself. It would be a waste of time.

That frees up an awful lot of time to do other things, which reminds me of one more thing I learned quite a while ago. I can deal with almost anything in this one moment. There are a lot of moments in life and once I started looking at them one by one, it was amazing how many of them are pretty good.

I think I am a lucky person. It’s what makes me a decent nine ball player. Of course I almost never play pool anymore. I don’t play Bridge anymore either, but I miss pool sometimes. I still have my cue, just in case. In the case! I remember when I had to buy my own case for my own cue, that was a traumatic moment for me. Now I’m glad it happened.

Like I said, most of the big decisions in my life are out of my hands and it seems to work better than I expected it to!