Summer vacation has always been my time to think about thinking thoughts I’ve never thought before.
The title of a an older book started my wheels turning, or is that my fishing line running, or maybe even my air conditioner working.
The book title is Five Things We Cannot Change by David Richo. Here is Richo’s list of “THIS WE CANNOT CHANGE”:
Everything changes and ends
Things do not always go according to plan Life is not always fair
Pain is part of life
People are not loving and loyal all the time
Any good liberal wants to find the utopia where these statements are not true. Any cynical conservative has these plastered all over their walls. Any Hallmark movie would dispute these claims. Any action movie would build on these premises.
Trump seems to think there is nothing he cannot change. Trudeau flows in a river that welcomes diversity and change. I live in Kindersley – some days I just like getting up knowing the sun is going to rise, and I’ve taken a breath to start my waking day!
When you first thought of things you cannot change, where did your thoughts go? Here are some of my first thoughts:
God is God, and I’m not
People have to decide to change, I can’t make them Death is a 100% statistic
I know less and less each day
Weeds will always grow – mostly in my back yard
When I think of these, I wonder . . .
At a younger age I would mix up “scared” and “sacred”. When we are scared, fearful and distrustful, these emotions arise out of having no firm and unchanging foundation to our lives. When we live with the sacred, we are joyfully secure in that which does not change. We live with peace and a sense of happiness.
I guess I can understand Richo’s subtitle for his book about things we cannot change. There is “happiness we find by embracing them.”
So, what thoughts are you going to think this summer?
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