A new hope

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As the end of the year looms ahead, most people either look back on their accomplishments and/or enumerate resolutions.  I suppose I would like to join the bandwagon and do the same--I also think it's apropos to simply be grateful. This year was sort of an intensive life training for me. In psychology parlance, this year was a battery of tests in which I could have given up at any point and I am immensely grateful for the strength and resilience that I could only attribute to something beyond the metaphysical--definitely supernatural.  Definitely God.

I am currently reading a suspense thriller by James Rollins entitled "The Eye of God" where I found the following statements referring to Plato's allegory of the cave:

"WHAT IS REALITY? It's both the simplest question to answer--and the hardest...Plato described the true world as nothing more than a flickering shadow on a cave wall...Could Plato have been right all along: that we are blind to the true reality around us, that all we know is nothing more than the flickering shadow on a cave wall?"  

How we are feeling at this moment is based on our interpretation of our reality.  We feel *insert feeling*, because we focus on a specific "flickering shadow" that is probably a small part of our true reality (which could also be our false interpretation of the truth).  It's alright if the feeling is on the positive/ happy side of the spectrum. Nevertheless, we tend to see what we want to see. I have a bad habit of putting more weight on the less pleasant experiences...loss, hurt, disappointment, oppression, lack of self-worth, covert aggression, etc.

Consider this my recycled resolution: healthy detachment. Let go. Carpe diem. Take the high road. Move on. Be kind. Respect everyone.

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