Patients of Life

We are all patients of life… Somehow, we are all recovering, always recovering. Nobody is exempt from this... not even the people that "look" and "seem" happy. We are administered different treatments in varying dosages. Our medicine of the soul arouses in different forms, each trying to anoint us with a PH level that neutralizes us. When we forget to be grateful, we are administered the medicine of loss, in some form or another. We look at it as loss unless we understand that a nudging was needed… a tweaking perhaps here or there. For example, if a person loses their car and now has to learn how to make plans for transportation, they lose a physical object in order to gain a new found appreciation for what they already had, They also develop a new look or approach to problem-solving, having to venture out of their comfort zone. When they attain a car once again, they feel happy and content with what they have.. Is not the goal of all creatures to have their needs fulfilled? To be happy? So if we are already there, we are technically happy but we just don’t know it yet. In essence, our dosage of medicine is some catalyst of cleaning our eyes and renewing our outlook on life. If I think for 3 hours about how awful it is to not have any fingers and imagine all the time and struggle it would take for therapy to function in a world that is ideally set up for people who already have fingers, then I come away from those 3 hours of deep thought feeling extremely rich not having paid all that in time and money to be able to meet a basic need. Therefore, understanding how amazingly wealthy we are right of the beginning keeps us in the PH zone. There is a difference though between a PH zone and being neutral. Being neutral is not living. There is certainly a difference. Being alive is having extreme emotions, being extremely grateful, extremely annoyed, extremely happy and giddy.... these are all emotions and feeling all of these is what makes us human. The key is what we do with these feelings that we have and how we channel that extreme energy that these emotions gift us with, this is the art of living.