I clumsily knocked over the bottle of energy drink I’d just prepared for a ride.
These sorts of things generally only seem to happen when we least want them to, don’t they? We’re in a hurry—in this case, just wanting to get out the door on my bike, ASAP—and we get careless.
(If we’re trotting out the proverbs today, let’s add ‘More haste, less speed’ into the mix, eh?)
And in the most mundane of fashions, this is when seeing that our experience (which includes the mind’s reactions to situations) is real but not true, really saves the day.
Because yes, when this happened, there was a brief flash of white hot anger. If I remember correctly, I probably did curse, loudly, with a real feeling of fury.
📦🗣️ I don’t want this to happen!! This is slowing me down!! I’m an idiot!!
And then, just as quick as it had come, it was gone; replaced by a chuckle and an acceptance of the situation.
Look, I even got my phone out to take a photo!
It may sound boring, but knowing that response #1 was real and not true, opened the moment up to response #2 … and of course responses #3 through to #3,000,000… and beyond.
♾️
There’s really nothing fancy or weird about real and not true.
It’s just seeing that there are no rules when it comes to life’s situations, however much the mind makes out like there are. Thought can show up in any form at all, to deliver ‘reality’ for you.
And seeing that is enough for new and different ones to appear.
💟
Giles
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