Category: Peace In Your Soul

Peace, tranquility, serenity

Fear Of Being Incapacitated?

Back Then, You Could Die Flying
Back Then, You Could Die Flying

Are you ready to die? Most don’t like to think about it. Ever wonder why this is so?

Two weeks ago on a flight to Allentown, Pennsylvania, I asked the woman (70-ish) next to me about death and dying. Long story, but it was neither awkward nor inappropriate.

The woman said she was not afraid of death. She told me “her life story” but added at the end, she was afraid of two things:

  1. Having no control over things
  2. Becoming a burden

While visiting Family in Allentown, I asked some direct questions.  The answers were fuzzy, meaning I left with no more insight than when I arrived.

Mid Life Clues

“The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, even after obtaining the object of one’s desire, one is still not satisfied, it becomes limitless or boundless and that leads to trouble. On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content.” — Dalai Lama

Not Really, She Said

Midlife Enables Us To See Clearly
Midlife Enables Us To See Clearly

“Have you ever had a midlife crisis?”, I asked the US Airlines flight attendant yesterday as we were waiting to disembark in Orlando. We sat across from one another, face to face – me in the exit row aisle seat, her in the “jump seat”.

The middle seat next to me was empty, and in the window seat was Mark, another US Air employee. Mark and I spoke at length, and he spoke with the flight attendant across from us, but I did not. Not until that question.

With an unanticipated wisdom, she replied, “Not really. I think it’s a guy thing.”

Clarifying, I added, “I’m not talking about the stereotypical convertible sports car, younger woman thing, I mean when you journey through life and arrive at the place you worked your whole life for, and suddenly realize it’s not where you want to be?”

What she said next really surprised me, “That’s because we don’t know who we are.”

Bingo!

It’s Working, I Think

Lehigh Valley International Airport
Lehigh Valley International Airport

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Finding the buried treasure?

How exciting is it when the secret is revealed to you?

Ever have unexpected moments when important things become surprisingly clearer to you?

How does that make you feel?

Sunday night listening to Miranda Lambert sing, The House That Built Me, on the CMA’s, when she sang, the brokenness is healing, things became surprising clearer.

Of course, being back in Pennsylvania also facilitated this.

There are many of us dealing with suppressed brokenness, which starts to resurface when we return to the place we grew up.

You Know What’s Crazy?

Parrotheads
Parrotheads

There’s a hidden, subtle message in this Mid Life blog post. Most likely, you will struggle to understand it.  It’s crazy that I even ask you to try, isn’t it?

Life is crazy.

Work is crazy.

The economy is crazy.

Health Care is crazy.

People are crazy.

And I’m one of them, and so are you.

Jimmy Buffett, who’s released over 40 CD’s in his lifetime and has a cult following of “Parrotheads“, once said:

“If we weren’t all crazy, we’d all go insane.”

Writing five daily blogs is crazy.

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary.

It began as a simple 100-day challenge.

The rest, as they say, is history.

PS. I have all 40 of Jimmy Buffett’s Cd’s and consider myself an original Parrothead. (I know, who cares?)