On another note, I wanted to mention the Buddhist practice of peaceful acceptance. When you feel angry about something, it's usually because there is something that you perceive as wrong that you can't change. However, this presupposes something else was suppose to happen in life and that the event that occurred was wrong in some way. I am not Buddhist, but I think that this has applications for everyone. I have been trying to remind myself about this concept but am really bad about it. So, I am going to look for the good in the way this morning went. Perhaps God will work somehting for the better out of it. Perhaps I will be a better person for it than I would if my morning went ideally. Great things occur out of imperfect experiences, not out of a utopian life. Speaking of which, when I was previously writing about my idea of the perfect morning, I was doing so a little tongue in cheek. I just finished reading Thomas More's "Utopia" and am reminded that the Greek U Topos can either mean "good place" or "no place".
In so much philosophy, reasoning and meaning is dependent upon a differential. In looking at the difference between my ideal morning and the reality, the difference really is that in one I am alone and in the other, I am connected to so many other lives. There. Now I can smile and feel grateful.
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