"It Is What It Is"
I’ve been using today’s title longer than I can remember. For me, I’ve used it in the context of things have just played out the way they have, and in most cases for me, it meant they did not work out the way I had envisioned it in my head. Whether it was a relationship, a job, a deal on a truck or Harley, I think or have thought of it as just not having the results I wanted. I read another interpretation from psychologist Don Powell: "It’s happened...'I'm going to forget about it. I'm going to move on... There is nothing that can be done about it." It would indeed be nice if we could forget about it, but the fact is we don’t. We get so caught up in the internal struggles of things not playing out according to the script in our head. It is that old nemesis we all fight called control.
We indeed have influence and input in our lives through our decisions. The good Lord gave us free will, but He did not give us total control. I tend to forget that and have to be reminded to get back to living in the moment as that is really all I know. The rest of it is the past or supposition about the future, and those are two things I cannot control, but I have run across another option: “what is.”
I recall reading a short little blurb by Richard Carlson called: Be Open to “What Is.” Rather than referring to the process of living in the moment, the article calls it the truth of the moment. Whether that moment is full of hugs, laughter and kisses or failure, complaining and frustration, it is still just the moment. It’s the idea of opening your head and heart even more to work with what is in front of you at the time. Think about it for a second. What else do you really have other than this very second? No matter the situation, learning to accept that it is indeed your moment can bring an amount of peace to you. Acceptance does not mean you have to like it, it just means you are working with “what is.”
Where are you at this very second? Are you in the “It Is What It Is” world or the “What Is” world: the past and controlling world or the accepting and living world? There is a difference. I’m working on the latter.
Rodeo Rod
I’ve been using today’s title longer than I can remember. For me, I’ve used it in the context of things have just played out the way they have, and in most cases for me, it meant they did not work out the way I had envisioned it in my head. Whether it was a relationship, a job, a deal on a truck or Harley, I think or have thought of it as just not having the results I wanted. I read another interpretation from psychologist Don Powell: "It’s happened...'I'm going to forget about it. I'm going to move on... There is nothing that can be done about it." It would indeed be nice if we could forget about it, but the fact is we don’t. We get so caught up in the internal struggles of things not playing out according to the script in our head. It is that old nemesis we all fight called control.
We indeed have influence and input in our lives through our decisions. The good Lord gave us free will, but He did not give us total control. I tend to forget that and have to be reminded to get back to living in the moment as that is really all I know. The rest of it is the past or supposition about the future, and those are two things I cannot control, but I have run across another option: “what is.”
I recall reading a short little blurb by Richard Carlson called: Be Open to “What Is.” Rather than referring to the process of living in the moment, the article calls it the truth of the moment. Whether that moment is full of hugs, laughter and kisses or failure, complaining and frustration, it is still just the moment. It’s the idea of opening your head and heart even more to work with what is in front of you at the time. Think about it for a second. What else do you really have other than this very second? No matter the situation, learning to accept that it is indeed your moment can bring an amount of peace to you. Acceptance does not mean you have to like it, it just means you are working with “what is.”
Where are you at this very second? Are you in the “It Is What It Is” world or the “What Is” world: the past and controlling world or the accepting and living world? There is a difference. I’m working on the latter.
Rodeo Rod
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