Maybe Today Is Not Your Day
Tomorrow might not be your day, either. Yet you’re always empowered.
Have you ever started your day excited, enthusiastic, and optimistic? You woke up feeling refreshed, invigorated, and ready to tackle the world? That would be amazing, right?
I’ve been writing about this life philosophy, Pathwalking, for 13.4 years. Six hundred and ninety-six weeks in a row, without fail. For all that time, I’ve been refining my understanding and approach to conscious reality creation, mindfulness, positivity, and making choices and decisions to live life as fully as possible.
Since I started this process, my life overall has been pretty amazing. Yes, there have been numerous ups and downs, good times and bad times, but once I started to not only develop this philosophy, but apply it, I’ve felt more in control of who, what, where, how, and why my life is.
However, not every day is perfect. Shit happens. Much of that is utterly and completely outside of my control. Even still, whenever shit goes down, the choice of how it will impact me or not is wholly mine to make. That never changes, despite it sometimes feeling like it’s not in my power in any way.
You have the same capability to make choices and decisions along these lines. Their employment, however, is wholly up to you.
That said, maybe today is not your day. Tomorrow might not be your day, either.
What you don’t control
The short answer is nearly everything. You have no control over anyone or anything outside of yourself. Are you the parent of a child, dog, cat, or other animal? If so, you know exactly what it’s like to have a modicum of control with zero actual control.
You don’t and can’t control the weather, the government, the economy, or all the other majorly distant entities that are part of your reality. Dialing in closer, you don’t control your bosses, coworkers, other drivers, traffic lights, or the growth of the veggies in your garden. Draw down closer, you don’t and can’t control your friends and loved ones, when and how appliances stop working, or anything else outside of yourself.
Lots of messages imply you can and do control these. But you don’t. Recognizing and acknowledging this, however, opens the way to empowering you to take what control you do have.
What you do control
The short answer is yourself. Circumstances not in your control – like where you were born, sex, skin color, and so on – don’t enter into it. Apart from those factors, you decide who, what, where, how, and why you are.
This begins by controlling your conscious awareness, i.e., mindfulness. This is the internal knowledge in the present moment of the matters of who, what, where, how, and why you are. All you need to do to get to that is ask yourself about your thoughts, feelings, intentions, approach, and actions.
The trouble with what you and I do control is that it only applies to this moment. Right here, right now, in the present. Despite that, maybe today is not your day.
Maybe today is not your day
No matter who you are, where you come from, what you have going for you, shit happens. Plans fall apart, people leave you, jobs are lost, things go wrong, sinkholes open up and swallow cars, and so on. Despite active work on mindfulness and conscious awareness, your day might go to hell.
When this happens – and it will – you’ll have an immediate, instinctive, visceral reaction. It might be terror, anger, a need to scream, a need to cry, the desire to run and hide, fight or flight, some indescribable combination of some or all of the above. That’s usually impossible to gauge or predict.
However, once that uncontrolled reaction has passed, you choose what comes next. Victim or victor? Ruined or unbroken? Empowered or disempowered? No, the answer might not come right away, you might need time to recollect yourself, put your thoughts in order, or recover from physical or mental//emotional/spiritual injury. Yet, ultimately, you choose.
Maybe today is not your day. But you still have the power, here and now, to make choices and decisions. You’re always thus empowered.
And yet…
Tomorrow might not be your day, either
What the actual fuck? Why bother if today is not your day and tomorrow might not be your day, either?
Because change is the one and only constant in the Universe. Hell, whole swaths of your life can suck, be challenging and unpleasant, and full of apparent failure. That’s all part and parcel of the human experience.
As part of my Pathwalking philosophy, I postulate that the meaning of life, ultimately, is this: TO LIVE. The meaning of life is to experience living it, and all the ups and downs that go with it.
Your day is likely a blend of good and bad, up and down, happy and sad, short and long, and vast points between these extremes. Nobody, and I mean nobody, lives a completely perfect, drama-free, trauma-free life. Even those who appear to be in the best positions with the most stuff experience shit happening and feeling awful.
Today might not be your day, and tomorrow might not be your day, either. Yet you’re here, now. You’re empowered to make choices and decisions, to take actions to drive your life. Even when this feels untrue, it’s still the truth. Lament that today is not your day, or accept it and see what you can learn from it. Tomorrow might not be your day either, but it IS still another opportunity full of potential and possibility. Whether you believe that or not.
SO – What are you doing with your day today?
This is the six-hundred-ninety-sixth (696) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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The first year of Pathwalking, including expanded ideas, is available here. Check out my author website for the rest of my published fiction and nonfiction works.
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