September 29, 2009
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You know those lemonade and iced tea commercials where the cute older gents are sitting on a porch just a rockin’ in their chairs talking to a pal or two or their grandkids? Or in real life do you ever walk or drive by those houses where some peaceful looking elderly lady is just sitting on her porch and just watching? I have thought a lot about these folks this year and have had some great conversation with a few too. These people have “been some places-done some things.” They’ve been through things like wars. They’ve seen the world change before their eyes 10 times over. They’ve experienced love and loss, joy and pain, birth and death- all of it. Stuff that most of us could not imagine and they are wise.
Wisdom:
Something you just can’t get/don’t have (no matter how hard you try) until you just live lots of time and experiences.
In thinking about all the good and bad insanity and chaos of life and how to become wise, I’ve thought about how many times we say things to ourselves like; “This is the worst thing I can possibly imagine. How the hell am I going to do/get through this?” or “This is the most incredible thing ever! I can’t imagine anything ever being better!”-then the bad somehow always works out just fine and the good somehow gets even better. If we can manage to find ways to practice grace and patience in all of the years of madness, choose to have a positive mindset during all the hard growth, take everything as a lesson and never stop dusting off and trying again, thats what makes us wise and leads to perfection.
Perfection:
Perfection to me is being fat and happy. “Fat and happy” is the place where when you’re up in years sitting on a porch with a belly, a cigar, a lemonade, some scotch-whatever your flavor, rocking in your chair watching the world go by or relaxing on a couch for hours with someone you love sharing time and just not giving a damn about anything else but that time. No thoughts about things called Blackberry’s, laptops, meetings or Facebook. The place where you’re too busy enjoying the moment just being in the moment to worry or think about anything else at all. You say things to us worriers and wonderers who ask you how you can just sit and relax like that without a worry; “Oh nothing could phase me at this point honey, I’ve been some places and done some things and all that matters is right here right now.”
Then you wise and perfect ones sit there, take another sip, look at us worriers and wonderers and smile- to which we smile back with a sudden sense of content, thinking; I am so looking forward to being fat and happy someday.
