Dear Editor:
The path to acceptance
Getting sick is part of life. Getting old is also a part of life. How we deal with these unavoidable facts is often the difference between being happy, being angry or just being sedated. Three different consequences manifested by three different choices.
Choice 1 – The path of acceptance. You are your body, at least until death. So if your skin is wrinkly, accept it. If you have your grandpa’s enormous ears, accept it. If you have a belly that no proper diet or exercise can get rid of, well accept that too. Fighting our biology is like trying to swim up a waterfall. By accepting it our mind will remain calm and a calm mind is the catalyst for inner peace.
Choice 2 – Get angry. It’s a tool we humans have developed quite well. If you’re being attacked by a bear it may have some value, but turning it on ones self is an ugly circumstance. Anger blurs the vision and that just sucks.
Choice 3 – Drugs please! The slippery slope of an addicted brain. From processed sugar all the way to the poppy plant. Modern mans’s little key to avoiding maturity. The intentions may be good, but the consequences are not.
How do I know? Because I have endured 18 years of severe myasthenia gravis and suffering is a profound teacher. Death was always present, I finally just had to make friends with it.
So from the divine in me to the divine in you, a flame that no pill can ever put out. Let’s put our happiness in our own hands and experience life the way it was intended.
Peter V. Bunderson
Moore
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