Blah, blah, blah about our economy. One dismal conversation after another. Fear and worry has overtaken the largest percentage of our population. I hear, “I can’t do that, I don’t know about my job;” “I don’t have a husband to fall back on;” “I’ll never find a job;” and on and on.
Blah, blah, blah about our politics. Conversations that take up precious thinking time I observe everywhere I go. Unless it is someone’s burning desire to be in politics, all there really is to do at this point in time is pull the lever for one candidate or another.
According to the Law of Motion nothing ever stays the same. We are either moving forward or backward — creating or disintegrating. When we say, “I like it this way — I’m comfortable,” or we are “frozen or stopped by the conversations around us,” we are really disintegrating. There is no real status quo.
This past week I was on a cruise — a floating lavish hotel with amenities galore, really. I spent my days listening to the greatest minds on our planet. Mary Manin Morrisey and Michael and Jackie Beckwith (Agape Center), Larry Wilson, Steve Siebold, Mark Victor Hansen (sold 1B copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul series), Bob Proctor … just a handful of world class thinkers and doers on board.
There were 2000 people on the ship and in a period of seven days, there was not one single conversation within my earshot about our economy or our politics. Not one! It was pure heaven. No mass consciousness on this liner. The level of awareness present was palpable and I realized that a world like this microcosm is the world I will create for myself and revel in it’s warmth.
Our economy is simply our economy. It’s not bad and it’s not good. It’s just what is so. If you think it’s bad, do you know that every day there are at least a dozen people desperate to leave Cuba to come 80 miles across the sea to our country — the land of the free? They float on styrofoam slabs or makeshift boats and most of them do not survive. They know they will likely die when they cast off because to them, their economy is miserable.
If we have to assign a judgment to our state of affairs, let’s ask ourselves “compared to what?” How about Cuba? What about countries around the world where people are starving, unsafe, and abused?
If we want to get on a bandwagon, let’s stand for those who really do have it much worse than we have ever known in our lifetime. That would be taking positive action to reverse something horrific.
Stewing in our own juices of fear and worry is not a positive path, is nonproductive, and according to the Law of Attraction, will simply cause us to attract more of the same.
I will never forget that I live in the greatest country in the world. I have everything I could ever want or need at my fingertips. And I thank God every day that I am so fortunate. That my children are healthy and their children robust. That modern medicine provided me brand spanking new knees so I could dance again, instead of hobbling through the balance of my life.
Gratitude, generosity, and compassion will attract back the same. Just as crying in our beer over something we can’t control attracts others with the same mindset. And so it goes.
