Sometimes in life shit happens, doesn’t it? And sometimes it happens again and again and again over a seemingly short period of time and we feel overwhelmed, anxious, stressed and downright pissed off wanting it to just stop. This has definitely been me over the last few months’. After injuring my knee back in March, it’s been a very long journey of rehabilitation given the extent of my injuries.
Sometimes life just seems to compound. When life is awesome, it seems to continue being awesome. But when things go haywire, they continue down that path and if we don’t stop it and change direction, we can easily and quickly disappear down a dark, long black hole. I was certainly there back in April/May/June and July of this year. Until I found Eckhard Tolle’s audio book “The Power Of Now”. Now I had borrowed this from the library some time before and just continued to renew it and renew it and renew it not feeling that I had the time to listen to it (it was an audiobook version). After I had managed to get my pain under control and knowing that I wasn’t in a position to work given how much pain management I was on, I figured what else was there to do but read books and listen to trainings. So I started with this audiobook and boy did it transform my thinking in the few short days’ that I listened to it.
Now I would be lying if I said that just doing that fixed my mind and my body. It certainly didn’t. It’s been a very long journey over the last 7 ½ months’ which is still continuing as I am not able to walk properly and my left quadricep and hamstring muscles have both wasted away due to being sedentary for so long. It’s been a battle – I’ll be honest.
But even in the day to day, we can transform our thinking in a moment. Yesterday, as a result of months’ of not eating properly and taking strong pain medication, Anaemia and 2 doses of anaesthesia, my iron levels have plummeted to a dangerous low. I kind of knew it was happening as I felt exhausted so frequently. So off to hospital yesterday morning for an iron infusion. I was so optimistic and the experience was very comfortable and positive. I felt so sure that within an hour or so my body would respond well and I would start to feel more ‘awake’. Well that wasn’t the case, I felt worse. Almost straight away. Awful headache, terrible nausea, total exhaustion, heart palpitations – so I ended up back in bed and slept for 4 hours’. Now I would be lying if I said that I was disappointed. But I listened to my body and did what I needed to do – rest. I felt much better as the afternoon progressed and knew I had some business tasks to complete as I had a deadline.
Fast forward to this morning. I am currently typing this while sitting on a train that has been delayed for 38 minutes’ now and potentially another 10 more minutes’. I had to be at a networking event in Melbourne at 11am which I am now just not able to make. Again – I’m disappointed but nothing at all I can do about it. No point in getting upset. Now I have been moved to a road coach. I will be about an hour late arriving into Melbourne. I will miss a meeting I had scheduled with 15 others’ this morning. I could really be pretty upset about all of this now couldn’t I?
But guess what? I’m not. I see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to catch up on yesterday’s work that I wasn’t able to complete. An opportunity to reach out to someone that I otherwise may not have had the chance to. Someone else I can offer an opportunity to. You just never know.
Sometimes it’s easier to see shit happening as just that and get upset, have a temper tantrum, get angry, yell, blame and stay in a bad mood. That would be easy. Or we get to choose to see the sudden change of plans as an opportunity. For what? Who knows?? Who knows what God/The Universe/Spirit has in store for us. And isn’t that exciting? I love that personally knowing that some ‘being’ somewhere has something else in store. But as the Bible states, “we are co-labourers with Christ”. And this is so true – you have to do your part. So see disappointments as opportunities and go with the flow. Who knows where it might take you.
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