Be what you are

Babies are naturally happy.  They put up with a lot of frustration and a lot of rules that go against their natural inclinations and still… they tend to smile and giggle at the drop of a hat.

That tells me that we are created to be happy.  That searching out suffering is not the right thing to do.

I know that a big part of my being a loner is that I don’t want to be constantly judged.  I’ve had enough of that in my life.  Now I want to find out who I am, what my natural inclinations are, what is it about me that makes me unique.

I watched my grandson bob to the rhythm of music with mad abandon and my granddaughter throw herself into the dance with no thought at all except that she wanted to be a ballerina.  She leapt and twirled, spun and threw herself to the ground with such joy and no apparent worries about how much she weighed, or how well she did it.  She only knew she loved it.

That is a gift people seem to lose as they grow older.

Maybe it is time to quit worrying so much about what we should do, or must do, or need to do and do more of what we want to do.  I have a feeling this might solve a lot of the world’s problems.  Without the stress and strain of trying to be something we are not, there might be a lot less need for drugs of any sort, both medicinal and recreational.

Acting out would become a thing of the past.  People would be encouraged to be what they were and therefore much more content and even productive.  We are such wonderful creations.