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"To love the way it is, is wise. To love the way it isn't, is just as wise."
(Happy Musings is a newspaper feature syndicated by King Features that I create each day to remind us all that “Life is wonderful!” I offer it here to brighten your day. Please share it with your friends.)
Wise is good. To gather wisdom is really wise. One of the wisest people I know is Therese Furino Boni, an older French-Italian grand dame. She taught me one of the wisest things I have ever learned – to see things as they are. With our wishes and desires we tend to put a negative or positive spin on things. Yet, the way it is, is always just that. By placing no judgment on something or someone, a person sees clearly things as they are and is able to deal with all kinds of situations freely, spontaneously and in the “now”.
I took that idea of viewing things as they are to heart. I learned to love that point of view. I learned to love the way it is, which included loving the way it isn’t.
I could see this concept so clearly when I taught tennis. I myself had been raised to be a champion in the traditional way and therefore had a perfectionist’s point of view. I could see the interference this made in everything I did – judging everything, wanting something one way when it wasn’t. Then later, after my competitive days, as I taught tennis I could see the judgment my students made on his or her shots with the accompanying up or down emotions. The ball was not just hit into the net. It was hit into the net “Ugh!” The ball was not hit out. It was hit out “Damn!” And, of course, with each judgment and change of emotional state a person’s attention is lost on that which is always moving and changing – the ball.
That’s the way it is with life – moving and changing. Just when you think you’ve got your ducks in a row, life changes the line up.
So the solution, it seems to me, is to love things the way they are. That’s the wisest point of view that I’ve come across. If you find something better, let me know!
Smiles,
Sally
“Life is wonderful! Don’t forget it.”
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