Hamlin Sound; SC
“If your happiness is contingent on anything, it will always be
contingent on something.”
“He who lives upon hope will die fasting.” Benjamin
Franklin
To
desire that things turn out a certain way is natural, hope may be the only
thing that gets us through an otherwise intolerable situation. Some of
mankind’s greatest achievements were accomplished by people who were exhausted
and frustrated, but held out that the desired result would be attained.
What else can pull the foot soldier through the horrors of war, the prisoner
through the torture of confinement and isolation, the cancer patient through
the poisons of chemotherapy and the drug addict through the torment of early
sobriety?
Yet hope
has close cousins; expectations, feelings of entitlement and closely following
these are sure to be resentments. While it is human and sometimes a
matter of survival to have hopes and desires for the future, the fact remains
that all of our life it will remain the present moment. It is in this moment
that we must find contentment and serenity within ourselves, regardless of the
chaos around us. After all, if it is always NOW, what we do NOW is what
we are doing with our life.
Today, may I live in
gratitude rather than expectation.
Have a great Thursday !!
David
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