Yes, it's always a choice... how and who we want to be. To illustrate my point I'd like to share this story from a few months ago. It was an email from a North American traveling to a Scandinavian country (possibly Norway). The writer of the story related how on a trip to Scandinavia he had a most humbling experience. His host drove him to their workplace in the morning at a very early hour, and upon entering the company parking lot this man parked his car at the furthermost point. When our friend, the writer queried him about not parking closer considering there were all the spaces closer to the entrancde of the building available to them the host answered: 'Well, since we are here early we have anough time to walk to the office... I prefer to leave the closer parking spaces for those who are late so that they have less to walk and get to work quickly." The writer confessed he was astonished at the simple logic and shame-faced because this hadn't struck him.
I too was amazed at this out of the ordinary explanation and gesture and thought how little it took to be the kind of person that was a part of a solution instead of being a problem; how simple to choose to be someone whose presence is life-enhancing instead of life-depleting. The choice is always ours. Which do we want to be?
Be Light, be Joy, have an open heart, and embrace the world... If you think it's easy, it will be easy; if you think it's hard, it will be hard!
Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
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