Thinking "thanks" - Thanksgiving 2020
An occasion to thank life for everything it has offered - the good, the bad, the ugly. The exhilarating highs and the spectacular lows. The great joys and the excruciating pains. The great successes and wonderful failures. The ever-changing ephemeral nature of life, and the seeming illusion of temporary permanence.
Above all, a big gratitude for the amazing journey of living, learning, and loving, and living, learning, and loving, over and over again. A life of living and lived experience, with the continuous nourishment of curiosity, compassion, and romance, active days and the deep slumber of night.
The purpose of life is life itself, needs no other seeking of meaning, no prompts or crutches, where true joy is in the amazement of discovery and learning, to understand, to create, and to navigate complexity, and being agnostic to cause and consequence of every phenomena.
It is but a mysterious game, this life, and we are but in the transience of our own carbon cycles. It is what we make it to be, and everything relies on our own ability, our own ability alone, to view all things with equanimity and grace, to appreciate the good and the bad, the joys and the pain, and to use our reason and thoughts to guide us to greater resilience and adaptiveness, without resort to regrets or to blame.
The best part of life is living with the knowledge that when our moment arrives to exit, we can exit with joy knowing full well that we have given to our lives everything we have had to give, and have taken from it everything that there is to take.
Never judging the deck of cards we were served with, neither gloating nor complaining, but holding ourselves to playing the best game possible with the cards we were and are served. Therein lies the ultimate experience, embracing all things being and nonbeing, with a spirit of freedom, curiosity, learning, adventure, and oneness - belonging to all and belonging to none at one and the same time.
