Karen REstivo
'In Other Words'
For once I’m addressing an issue on accountability above and beyond our ego.
In the big picture, we understand we arrived on our own (except for maybe a ride along sibling) at delivery and we’re expected to return on our own at our time of departure.
Facts are facts, from the moment we arrived, we’ve been in a line for departure without the least bit idea of when that moment will arrive.
Our attire for delivery was our birthday suit.
Your birth and death confirms the process is all about you.
While visiting here, we experience a bevy of challenges navigating this one life of ours.
No rule book was included, so for the most part our beliefs were procured by our parents, clergy, family, friends, and community.
Once an adult, one either accepts those prepackaged beliefs or they seek to challenge and perhaps alter their beliefs to suit their new freedom of expression.
Once again, it returns to being all about you.
As my dad use to say, “It’s time to put on your thinking cap.”
We’ve been told from the very beginning that the only person you can change in life is you.
During our earthly tour we struggle with this one in an attempt to have those around us conform to our beliefs.
If they don’t, they’re just wrong.
It’s also easily accessible to blame everyone else in life for what’s happened to you.
Forget the intent or actions of others, how we respond to those experiences lands squarely on us.
Once our response data is collected and we find ourselves in the front of the line at the departure gate, there’s no going back and starting over.
So, what if we are here to observe, experience and respond to everything and everyone during our brief tour of duty as human beings?
What if it is all about each of us?
Our response data returns with us in place of our birthday suit.
Regardless of all those involved with us during times of joy, love, inspiration, challenges, and tragedies, it’s a solo one-way ticket back home with no additional seating available for the heroes or villains in your story.
The ego plays a role in the data collection of your emotions to assist in deliberating each of your responses, but it’s your free choice that ultimately seals the deal.
In other words, upon arrival back to your place of origin, excuses like ‘the devil made me do it’ or ‘everybody else was doing it’ won’t suffice at your final check-in.
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