Rain or Shine

When I found I was able to look myself in the mirror, it no longer mattered what the weather was like outside.

The simplicity of the noble life is merely to do the very best at this very moment in the here and now. How many different times and in what different voices have we heard this notion during our lifetimes? Wouldn’t it be nice to live a noble life?

I sometimes wish I was a King!

The challenge with doing our very best each and every moment of each and every day, among other things, is that we are human. As such, we are inherently flawed by our inability to stay focused and we are insurmountably challenged by an endless flow of distractions.

So we convince ourselves; work harder, work longer, work faster, work more efficiently. When this does not work, we try working more strategically or we work harder at accepting that our work will never be done.

Owner’s manuals for a life well lived have been written in each and every language, within each and every culture, and for each and every challenge we may encounter. And so we wage war with time.

Driven by the need to win the war we so often forget that what may appear to be the front line is often an illusion. It is much more difficult to make peace with the enemy.