Chucking it All

Ever feel like chucking it all? Like if the effort is not really worth the outcome and you wondered why you even tried at all? I am sure we all get that way at times and we just feel like walking away from it all. So we view it from a distance and try to see it in a different perspective, from an angle more appeasing and then try to understand in a more constructive role and as a third party instead of the one involved in it or feeling as if you were. But there are times that no matter how you look at it, it does not change, it remains the same and you have that gut instinct that what you feel is right, so you just throw your hands up and walk away from it, because you know that no matter what you do or say it is not going to change one iota. You have to leave it where it lies and let time work it out. If there is a chance for change, it will happen and if not then why worry about it?

Life is full of these situations, some see them as challenges while others seem them as stumbling blocks. Ones that see the challenge in it will take it head on and try to figure out why and then try to resolve it, but their resolution is usually to the effect that they can understand it and accept it in their way or to their benefit and not as it was composed to be. Those that see it as a stumbling block will try to avoid it altogether, try and find a way around so as not to be affected by it, but this is like a mole in their hole trying to avoid a flood coming in their direction, inevitably they are going to find themselves struggling with it only to eventually be pulled down.

So as life goes, so come conflicts, confusion and chaos, but it is within these things that confront us that we can find order and a peace of being as we learn to understand and accept. The only constant in life is change and it is how we learn to adapt to change that will determine our survival and survival depends on how we accept and understand those changes or cycles we go through.

When in a river it is much easier to swim with the flow than to be constantly swimming against it. I am not saying that we should always conform to what others feel is right, there are times when we need to try and swim against the flow of the status quo, because as an individual you can affect the change, even rivers have been known to change their course over time and change can start with one thought.

Is it wise to always confront conflict? It really depends on your beliefs, I was taught to"pick your battles" and to go prepared for both victory and defeat. If we find ourselves constantly confronting conflict, always finding something wrong, then in the process we may miss what is good and never realise it may have been wiser to have offered a bit more understanding and only try and change those things which over shadowed the good in it. There has never been a bad idea only bad planning. Not saying you should ride a skate board in rush hour traffic, just saying we need to learn at times when the smarter thing to do is yield. Time can change it, change is inevitable and sooner or later as it is said, your time will come.

So maybe chucking it for a while, shelving it temporarily until the time is right and the enviroment is condusive, revisit it, look at it again and see if it is worth the effort to spend any time on it to try and change it.

Later...

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