Goldilocks

The world is blurry and fuzzy. We can’t always have things just right. We are not goldilocks.

Walking through the forest, we see abundant life, but also fallen trees, decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter. Wherever we look we will find death as well as life.  If we look closer, the rotting leaves are also giving birth to new life and are full of microorganisms (life itself)!

Choices and Decisions don’t always have a perfect Right and Wrong.
The world needs both Questions and Answers.
Attention and Distraction
Good and Evil
Hunter and Prey
Mind and Body
Love and Fear
Happiness and Sadness
Wind and Stillness
Seed and Flower
Infant and the Old Man
Quiet and Loud
Alone and Together
Follow the Rules or Creatively Problem Solve

Life is full of gray areas, blurry lines and spectrums.  What did you dream your life would be like when you were little? Is it exactly like you pictured? Each of your choices and experiences sent you down a different winding path. But you’re still you.

Seasons are fluid they don’t happen overnight, it’s a blurry transition from summer to fall. Leaves change color one a time. They fall slowly.

Sunrise and sunset is blurry. The colors and shapes change with each blink of your eyes. The sun catches fire as it enters a lake.

Age is blurry, you don’t just become old, hard of hearing with memory impairment overnight.

Sleep happens slowly, you phase into it, and gradually wake up.

Your art project deliberately comes to life before it’s a masterpiece.

Flowers bloom sluggishly to get ready for the bee to pollinate.

Feeling full happens slowly. You don’t eat your whole dinner in one bite.

A beginning is also an ending (new year, finishing a project).

You can have lots of feelings at one time.

Love is one giant universal force. We of course feel lonely, because we are just a small part of it.  We are supposed to be lonely. We are just one piece. Don’t numb those feelings with your body, drugs, food, busyness, etc. We need patience, be just as you are. Loneliness ends when you realize you are part of eternity. We are equal parts insignificant and irreplaceable.

Humans need to get more comfortable with blurriness. Gender, politics, every issue is fuzzy. Why can’t we just kindly listen to one another and get comfortable with the blurry lines?

The word family can even be blurry; some people define family as their husband or kids or spouse or parents-siblings-cousins-aunts-uncles. Some include their friends because they treat them like family and they do anything for each other. Some people include pets. But we all agree that families spread love.

If you look hard enough, you’ll realize everything is a spectrum, and are all our own life’s goldilocks and our “Just Right” is somewhere on the same spectrum …. We have more in common than we have differences.  In a world where we want everything “Just Right” we need to remember that it’s not the same answer or selection for everyone. And that’s what makes the world beautiful.

Find the beauty in the blurry.