SUNSHINE ALL OVER THE PLACE

Yes. This much sunshine on my face and everywhere else. There is so much light on me I can barely see. Despite the doom and gloom around me and people throwing their depression, moodiness and bad-moodiness my way, I just feel that the time is NOW.  It's an energy that radiates in me--almost telling me to rush out and manifest dreams right this minute.  And this minute. And this.

I'm aware that this might possibly be one of the worst times yet, but I have experienced--many times over-- that the worst times can also be the best and they are certainly opportunities to see only the essence of things. I find that incredibly exciting. We've been living on fluff for far too long anyway. We've been allowing the outside to dictate who we are. We don't even know what we're capable of if left alone to decide things. We rarely hear ourselves think, or follow our thoughts, or hear them springing forth.  But now, at last, it could be the time for that.

We've spent decades complaining, wanting change, but I guess we just weren't ready enough, so the universe conspired for such a crisis so that we would literally be forced to change. And here it is. And despite all the dire predictions, I refuse to be put down. I'm not going to hoard whatever I have. I'm not going to think of only myself because who knows what will happen tomorrow. Instead, I have decided to do the opposite.

I will consciously create flow where I can. I will invest in individuals I believe in--people I know can change the world and are beginning to do important work in the realm of transformation. I will stay away from petty, bad mood individuals, who attempt to block my sunlight with their heavy sighs and burdensome self-indulgence. I believe those days are over. There are people I've been giving time to that I feel can no longer be helped by that, simply because it suddenly became clear they don't really want to help themselves. The time for that is over as well. I will pay attention and see where I'm truly needed and if I feel I'm wasting my time, I simply stop.

There is doom and gloom, of that we are all aware, but we can also choose to see that there can be great things that will spring forth from the muck, as always, if we hold out for it and work towards it, it will be there. 

It occurred to me that it is the end of A world, not THE world.  The much dreaded apocalypse has been upon us for some time and now it has come home.  There are places in which the new have sprung forth and are starting to take root and there are places--mostly within us--where the old just keeps festering.  In order to be relevant in this new world, so many questions need to be asked.

In this world where money is no longer what it used to mean, how do we invest? How do we spend? How do we give and receive? What do our jobs mean? Are we in the right place? Are we doing what we're supposed to? Existential questions of the past are now practical questions. I feel in my heart that is what the world requires today. There is no denying the importance of the essence of things and today, finally, we have entered that space where the questions we used to allow in only during rare moments are now at the forefront and are demanding attention.

Yes, these are difficult times, but there is sunshine all over the place as well, and it is in our power to choose the lens from which to view the world from now on.