TALES FROM THE BOBBI LAMA

I was talking with a friend the other day about how many people that I knew having so many problems recently, adding to the people I knew that had such angry involvement in politics and other controversial issues. So much negative emotion seems to fill the airways and consume conversations. Most days, I feel drawn to help those suffering however I can help, while also working to avoid those who are vehemently ranting about what makes them the angriest. Then there are times I seek to be alone, find peace and simply feel the gratitude for being blessed with most of my needs being met overall. And because I’m able to send messages on a computer, and you are able to read messages on a computer puts us in a class of people on this earth I’d call “lucky.” Don’t you agree?

I know there will always be those with more than me, and there will always be those who have less. I’m also aware there will be good days and those with suffering such as what I went through when my husband passed away. But having enough for the most part is where I focus my attention on the days I want to feel happier by feeling gratitude. I also think of everyone as being enough, too. We’re given life in a physical package, with personal tastes, personal abilities, personal goals, and personal histories that make us who we are… perfectly us, and we can be that person better than we can be anyone else. I also know that no one can ever be better at being me than I can be. So now, at those times I want to “float in the positive” for a break from all the negative around me, I practice feeling blessed with what I am and with what I have…right now.