– Rainer Maria Rilke
I am a go-getter, a manifester, a person who can make things happen. If you have a problem, I can figure out a solution. If there is more to be done than one person could possibly handle, I will find a way to do the so-called impossible. To me, problems are puzzles and challenges to be relished and overcome with a smile and a positive attitude. I’m starting to think, however, that maybe there is more to life than being on top of things. Maybe, for all my all-out, zippy effort, what I really need to learn is just how to BE: How to go with the flow, relax, enjoy, and trust that even if I’m not making things happen right now, today, or even this year, it’s okay. Maybe it’s even better than okay: maybe life can be as easy as we can it allow it to be. Depending on how we approach it and what we believe about it, life can be stressful/difficult/challenging, or it can be boring/depressing/uninspiring, or it can be easy/pleasant/peaceful and full of beautiful moments that require nothing of us but to taste them without needing them to be anything but what they already are. Perhaps we have only to decide that it’s okay for life to feel easy for it to begin to feel lighter and safer and more like delightful play than hard work.