Hakuna Matata

“Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.”

musafa from the lion king

 

The Dali Lama once said,

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it,

 then there is no need to worry.

If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying.

 There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” 

All of the women in my family of origin have been

worriers.  My "fatma", the great grandmother who

lived next door to me, worried about

just about everything.  She would worry about the neighbor,

her daughter, my Littlema, my mama, me, my sister and brother.  She'd worry if the tomatoes were getting too much water or if the storm would blow us all away.

My mama is much the same as her.  She has spent a lot of her time worrying about all of us.  I can remember watching her

watch for my sister or my brother to come home at night.

She'd sit on the couch with her face back looking out the front window of our house----now having a teenage son and daughter, I can relate to the worrying she must have been doing.  My mama--never ever---went to bed before we came in at night.  I myself have spent plenty of time worrying myself---about my family, my job, my staff,

about whether the world would end,

if there were UFOs,

whether the "boogie man" would get me

and

even a bit of thinking about

wondering if we humans in our search of

God

actually might help us end our world

as the Mayan calender predicted.

All of this said and down....

bottom line

worry

gets us nowhere

but

in a state of fear,

full of anxiety

and

exhausted.

I guess

sitting and thinking

it has been a long time

since I've stayed up waiting for off color daughter and off color son to come home.

I don't worry about storms so much or whether

the sun will come up.

I do still worry about health issues with some of my

family---I worry about how I'd live without them---

worry about whether they are happy or sad or blue

but

that comes from a place of love

deep love and

so I am okay with that kind of worry--I call that love and concern.

As I get older

I realize

that tomorrow

what bugged me today

will probably

not bug me tomorrow.

I've learned to believe that

behind every stormy night,

the sun

she seems to always come up at daybreak

I've learned

the wind

dies down,

rain ceases,

and

most importantly

that we

humans

we humans are resilient

kind of folks....

we rebuild our world when

Eden disappears,

we rise up as a Phoenix

out of the smoky ashes

and

spread our wings.

Worry

ah worry

it weighs us down,

pulls us down

zaps our energy.........

no need for it

Hakuna Matata

Life

moves

flows

ebbs

and

tides

and

we

we

are

and

life

it is

knowing this

well

let's just strap on our life vest

and

allow the tide

to take us

to unknown places

in all kinds of weather

and

trust

trust in the Mystery of the UNIVERSE---

for

the Mystery

whether we acknowledge it or not

is what makes the life jacket float.

Hakuna Matata

Enjoy your day!

Hugs and Blessings

the radical rambler