MenoSundays; Life Lived Lovingly

I have had cause to take a good look at life and how I am handling it of late. It is worth noting (and it may have been mentioned before) that it can seem as if the YAMster is not doing a lot other than thinking. Then things happen, and they happen fast! This can lead to bursts of self-doubt, self-castigation and even self-loathing. 

It is the Vedantin's way to sit and review the deeds of any given day. In observing them, then to observe one's part in them and whether it was played well. If not, can the error be identified? This gives something to work on and to seek non-repetition. Or to avoid if the error arose from another's actions or words. For it has to be accepted that one can only be damaged by the attitude in which one takes on that which comes from the external. Whether or not another intended to cause harm matters not; what matters is whether we take it on and get stuck or reject it and move forward.

When we can see if we might have played something better ourselves, we can grow from the self-knowledge gained. Too easily we can surrender to the flow of things, thinking the script is written for us when, in truth, we are our own playwriters!