Now that I have reached the end of the line in a personal sense, giving up control is vital. The ego is simply a construct that can be seen through in due time.
Yesterday Rob and I tried a new restaurant right around the corner from us. We went around three o’clock, so there were only a few people there. The food was good but our waitress hung around our table and talked to Rob with her mask pulled down. Clearly, she had no business doing that, but c’est la vie. Things have so changed that I try and remember that covid is still a danger.
The ego is also a clear and present danger because it has no memory of right conduct; it behaves in a mechanical way.
I did the same thing the day before when the guy from the lawn service and I talked in the front yard. I forgot that covid was still a threat then, too.
The restrictions are not hard on either of us, due to our introversion. Rob plays Trivia with a few friends frequently, but I have no social life left at all.
So what are my days like, having given up on social life? I love my new smart TV. I work crossword puzzles and read now and then. I do housekeeping and the ordinary chores that a house requires. Right now I have no interest in selling the house; so I have to keep having things done to it. My bedroom is downstairs, so that is not a problem.
I also write as I am led to do. The words tumble out of my fingers and onto the screen. I have no plan on the essays that are written; I just draw on my considerable knowledge of how difficult the truth path is!
Yes, folks, the world is going to hell in a hand basket and there is nothing that can be done about it. We may think that things will get better, but that is not going to happen. The world has taken a hard right and nothing good can come from that.
I go back to the truth a hundred times a day and it is unflinchingly honest. We only have today.
Vicki Woodyard
The Truth path is difficult; and it is solitary. It may be a strange thing to relate (and it is merely an opinion that I have); but being introverted may be helpful when on this solitary path. The work must be done by oneself. We experience many wrong turns; however, when we know that we were actually going in the right direction for that brief moment or two — we sense the rightness and are grateful, peaceful and contented for being led and guided when we needed it the most. Thank you, Vicki.
Yes, difficult and solitary. And it is easy for introverts to be alone. I can’t tell you the times I felt guilty about not having a social life. But so be it; there is no such thing as chance or acccident as far as the soul is concerned.