Truer words in my humble opinion have never been spoken. You never know what your gonna get until you bite into one. Yes life is like that, if you don't take a bite, you will never know what could have been.
So I'm sitting here thinking about Forest Gump, what a brilliantly written character, so innocent yet so wise, dumb as a post but smart at the same time. "Stupid is as stupid does" yes absolutely and further to that any descriptive would work, "Happy is as happy does", live your life as if you are setting an example every single day and that example is being set for the most important person or people in your life. My important people are my kids, I want them to see their mom as a happy caring compassionate fun loving concerned with their well being person and the example I want to set for them is "Loving is as Loving does".
Life is one big box of chocolates, it's full of surprises and disappointments. Like a box of chocolates there will be the favourites and the not so favourites. For everyone they will be different. Every individual has their own taste and it's not our place to judge someone because they like a flavour we don't. That's perfectly fine, look at it this way at least you don't have to fight over the same favourites right? When we start judging people we forget that we too have a differing opinion and how would we feel if someone passes judgement on us?
Forest Gump as simple as he was, was incredibly deep where it mattered. His word was gold and if he made someone a promise he did everything possible to see it through. How many of us can say the same. How many shallow promises have we made to our important and not so important people? How many times have we had to disappoint? Why? Is our word not gold? Are we not genuine? Do we make promises to elevate our status at the moment and not worry about the consequence when we are unable to deliver? I promised my kids I would take them to Disneyland, I told them when I can afford it I would do it. I did not tell them year after year that we are going then not go. If I did that, they would give up the hope that it would actually happen. Unfortunately they have been disappointed time and time again by a parent who thinks making promises to elevate his status in their eyes is ok. Well it's not.
My kids know that when I tell them we are going to do something, we do it. I learned years ago that it's not fair to them to get their hopes up for something I cannot deliver. Yet, they put blind faith in promises made and time and time again are sadly disappointed. But they trust, and one day that trust and hope will run out, as I have learned from an insightful individual and I think it's because of what happens when we are kids. What our parents do to our fragile psyche with empty promises can stay with us through adulthood. I will not do that to my kids, my parents didn't do that to me, it's not how I was raised and because of that I am able to hope and to have faith. I know my life is what I make it, but I also know I'm not alone in this journey and I have unwavering faith that I will be carried through the trying times as well as celebrating the good times.
Every morning, I select three cards from my Ascended Masters Oracle Card Deck, for anyone reading this who is not familiar with the Ascended Masters they are what you would call the enlightened individuals who cross the different religions and beliefs. Individuals featured in this deck are, Jesus, Mary, Lakshmi, Thor, Apollo, Archangel Michael, St. Francis, Merlin, Isis, to name a few. The messages on these cards are positive, there is nothing dark or evil about them they are strictly for personal guidance and insight. Lately I have been drawing on Jesus and the message on the card is "Open your heart to love" I thought it was open, I'm a pretty loving person but lately for some reason I am being reminded to be open, and likely it's because there will be a situation that will require me to take the path of love where I normally wouldn't.
At the beginning of the Olympics there was allot of criticism about what we were not doing right, I was embroiled in it and frustrated as were so many proud Canadians. Those mornings I continually drew the card "Detach from drama" good advice? You bet, because once I let it go I started enjoying the Olympics and all the drama settled down. This is advice I turn to every morning, I don't start my day without my three cards and the messages in them, some mornings they may not be telling me what I want to hear, but I know it's what I need to hear. It's my "Spiritual is as Spiritual does" it's my reminder that we are not alone, and that we have to live every day like it's the most important day of our lives. Our individual box of chocolates. Savour every single one of them even if it's not your favourite flavour, keep in mind once you get through it, next one may be better.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, if we all looked at life like Forest Gump, in it's simplest purest form then maybe we wouldn't see it is so bad or disappointing or what ever negative label you want to put on it. Take your box of chocolates, go sit on a bench in a park and savour every last one of them it's all you get.
With much love, light and huge box of chocolates,
Tammy.
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