Adjustment and accommodation, Kid. Adjustment and accommodation. Over time. From birth to death. Is required of every living thing. Aging well is the art of adjustment and accommodation. Everything is changing as we watch, and what we do in response is t fit in and make it work. I am about to step into my 82nd year. I’m still getting out of bed and finding my way to the bathroom unassisted, but it is only a matter of time before assisted living comes to my rescue. We all would like to put that off as long as possible, but. If we live, we disappear before our eyes. Coming to terms with that and allowing it to be because it is, is part of our compact with life, and we say YES! to that as we have done with the ten thousand other things we have acquiesced to over the years.
Living asks hard things of us. It has always been hard. Meeting our life as it needs to be met has been a daily affair from the start. And there is no alternative. Growing up is letting go of some things and making room for others. And doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, in the right place is the on-going, never-changing, requirement of Psyche/Tao in response to what is called for here, now in each situation as it arises from birth to death.
Death? Did someone just say, “death”? What a coincidence! I was just thinking about death! Since we don’t have a clue about what happens when we die, we may as well make up something that we can live with, no? I can live with seeing death, not as an ending, but as just another transition–an energy transference where we shift from one mode of consciousness to another, trading physical existence for dark matter, perhaps, or light rays, or something eerie and grand. I hope to observe the entire process as long as mindfulness, adjustment and accommodation remain options.
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