Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
~ Thoreau
It’s going to happen. One morning you are going to wake up and realize that today is the first day of forever. It will happen when you are ready for it to; this first day of forever.
It will happen when you have decided to stop looking for happiness as you would an object you have lost and instead choose to be happy.
It will happen when you stop looking for wonder and mystery long enough to open your eyes and see the wondrous and mysterious things that surround you in every moment of the day.
It will happen when you stop looking for someone outside of yourself to blame for everything in your life that you have seen as evil or negative and finally realize that everything that happens to you is a result of decisions that you have made in the past.
It will happen when you finally realize that the only one who has the power to change your present circumstances – is you.
You see, there comes a point when it becomes clear that there is no one else that you can blame for the situations in which you find yourself. I don’t care how dysfunctional your childhood family was or what negative circumstances you had to deal with as you were growing up or how many of your relationships have failed. It’s still your fault. You brought this on yourself. If you had been paying attention, you would never be in the situation that you are in now.
Oh, I’m sorry, is that too harsh? Would you rather hear that it is all “their” fault? That you can put the blame for the person that you have become on your parents or on the partners of failed relationships or on the seemingly random and chance events that have created the life that you are currently living? Or maybe you’d prefer the concept of a random and chance universe where bad things happen to good people for absolutely no reason.
It would be easier if I did that, wouldn’t it? It would be easier to be able to point fingers and place blame and sigh about how much better your life would be if only this or that hadn’t happened or if only this or that would. Ah yes, much easier than actually getting out there and doing something about it.
You see it is your fault; all of it. The circumstances you have found yourself in, the problems that you are being faced with, the seemingly random events that make no logical sense; they are all of them the result of your past focus and actions. These are not tests by a divinity or temptations by an evil being. You have drawn them to you by the focus of yesterday’s thoughts; the focus of yesterday’s energy.
And what about the seeming randomness of so many events and circumstances? Well here’s the thing, chances are that you didn’t realize yesterday that your current attitude was going to have an effect on tomorrow’s events. You probably weren’t paying attention to what you were thinking about; to the direction that your chaotic emotions were pointing you in. You simply went with it. You let your emotions control your thoughts and you let your thoughts control the focus of your energy. And so it was that your energy was focused – unintentionally mind you – but focused nonetheless. And what you were focused on is what you brought into your life today.
And yes, there are random circumstances that are not the result of your intentional (or unintentional) focus of energy but which are in fact the result of someone else’s intentional (or unintentional) focus of energy. But here’s the thing, it is still up to you as to how you react or respond to these circumstances.
The random traffic accident that is not caused by anything you did wrong but rather by someone else being in too big of a hurry to stop at the light. That accident may in no way be your fault, or even the result of your previous actions. There may have been absolutely nothing you could have done to prevent it. But first, that does not mean that you didn’t bring the event into your life. Secondly, it does not mean that you have to allow your emotions to control how you react to that event.
You can choose to get upset and let it ruin your entire day, or you can calmly and coolly exchange insurance information and go on about your business knowing that while it may have seemed to be a random accident may instead have been your higher self’s way of ensuring that you’ve learned what you need to know about controlling your temper or about letting your emotions control your reactions.
And it doesn’t matter how big or small the circumstance. It doesn’t matter how mundane an action or how life changing of an event you are faced with. The truth of the matter still remains; you can control tomorrow’s reality by how you choose to react and respond to today’s events and circumstances.
You can stop letting your body-generated emotions dictate tomorrow’s reality and instead take the necessary steps to ensuring that tomorrow you will be living the life you always imagined. And when you have done this for long enough there will come that morning when you wake up to realize that tomorrow is today, and that today is, finally, the first day of forever.