But how many of us are willing to pick up that proverbial baton of life and run with it? Not many of us, I surmise.

Why? Because it’s scary to allow Life to happen as it is happening.

We want to control.

We want to make sure that Life happens as we want it to, expect it to, and demand it to.

We want to control the outcome. We want to believe that we have a semblance of ability to ensure the outcome of Life events, especially those that occur in our existence in our days here with our surroundings.

But, as we all know, sometimes things happen that are completely beyond our control. And then we are set back on our backside wondering, ‘what happened?’

“How could this happen to me?” we cry. This isn’t the way things are ‘supposed to be’ we tell ourselves.

But, I believe that what is currently in front of us, that situation, that event, that circumstance, is exactly what we need at the moment we need it.

Life is giving us a wakeup call. "Wake up to what?" you ask?

Wake up to life. Wake up to what it is that you need to know and yet are doing your best to get in the way of, to stand in front of.

Life gives us what it knows we need. Life is just happening as it is happening and there is virtually nothing we can do about it as it happens.

"Oh, but we can do something about it." you say. "We can control what happens to us. We can drive our cars that way, we can eat the foods we want to eat, we can treat others the way we do. That is how we are controlling what happens to us, right?"

I beg to differ.

I believe that there is a bigger happening occurring here. Something that is much broader and more expansive in scale than our puny attempts at control and controlling our life events.

We can choose what gets put in our mouth, but we can’t chose what happens to our bodies, to this meat sack we were blessed with. No matter how much we eat healthy foods, exercise proper amounts, and live a balanced life of stress free existence, all of that still doesn’t guarantee anyone, anyone, the truth of an existence free of disease.

No one truly, wholly knows why this is the case. We hear of smokers who smoke for over half a century and live to grow old and disease free. And we hear of babies born into a short existence of illness and pain and sudden death.

Do any of us really have the answer, definitively, as to why this happens? I don’t think so.

Life is going to come at us, whether we want it to or not. So what can we do about it, seeing as how it’s an out-of-our-control type of ride that we’re each riding through life?

Well, very simply...enjoy the ride. Understand that there are very few things that are truly under your control, and instead, opt to BE with life, AS it happens.

There is nothing to go against here. There is only the outcome of your resistance to what is happening that is making what is happening seem as it does. Life is neither good nor bad. It just is.

We are the ones placing labels on everything that occurs during our days as either good or bad. Wanted or unwanted.

I’m reminded of the movie reviews I sometimes read online prior to bringing my boys to see a kids movie that is just released. The reviewer of the movie article writes his or her review and discusses their take on the show. Sometimes they write that the movie is horrible and not worth the money to see it. Other times they write that the movie is unbelievably funny and worth the price of admission.

But, really, it all comes down to what my kids think of the movie. They sometimes come away from the show loving what they saw, no matter how bad the reviews were. How bad the reviewer thought the movie was, was irrelevant. The reviewer’s experience and labeling of the movie as ‘bad’ was meaningless, except to him or her. The boys thought the show was 'great'.

It’s all a matter of perspective.

Life doesn’t have to be going good or going bad. Life is just going.

Life doesn’t have to be a struggle or a free ride, it just is what is happening and we’re here with it as it occurs.

There is so much happening throughout each of our days that offers clues and insights into the magic of the moment, but we aren’t listening. We aren’t paying attention.

One of my favorite inner development teachers, Vernon Howard, once stated, ‘God is always speaking to you, you’re just looking the other way’. Although we each have our own version of the Creator, we can get the gist of what is being spoken here.

The universe is showing us what it had created for us to see and personally experience. It has given us an opportunity to walk along with it as we tiptoe to our mortal graves.

But, no, we want to resist, we want to be dragged by the hair as we’re pulled forward to our existential reality.

Some of us even want to pull on the hand of existence and attempt to stop it from moving on with its path through eternity. How ludicrous.

So, whaddaya say that you take a bit of time and realize that Life is happening as it is happening for reasons that none of us, and I mean none, can understand as to why it is happening as it is. How about you ponder the fact that no manner of resistance, or doubt, or denial of what is, is going to change what is.

Life is happening. Life is going forward as it is going forward; it is occurring as it is no matter how much we may not want it to.

Mine the jewels of existence. Search for the diamonds in every experience that is brought in front of you. There is gold in every event of Life. There are riches beyond our knowing that can make our puny little lives and our existence so much more than it currently is. Each and every day.

Are you willing to do the work to just be with Life as it is, without adding your Self to the equation, and messing up the answer?

There was once a very popular vehicle bumper sticker stating "Crap Happens" (this is a family-friendly article, so I took the liberty of rewording the offensive four-letter word). I would like to re-phrase that once popular saying to reflect what is really being shared here, that is, realize, truly understand deep inside your being that "Life Happens".

Let Life happen, without you getting in the way. And then watch what happens TO you. And be prepared to be surprised. Results guaranteed.

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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