Fish rool

During my recent visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium - which is awesome, by the way - I encountered a roller coaster of emotions. I  enjoy Monterey. The nature there is stunning and so is the aquarium. I am in love with the mackerels, the jelly fish and the giant squid. Way too many things to mention. Looking at the exhibits made me aware of the incredible depth of all creations.




 Who came up with a jelly fish? How can such a creature live? In total awe and appreciation I walked into the flamingo exhibit. And there it was: the first big dip. I did not see it coming.  


All the way from the top - way way down. 

So many people just ignored the sign to not use a flash. It said, that it might hurt the birds. There were signs EVERYWHERE. You could not not see them. I couldn't stop myself and asked a couple of people to turn their flash off - but there were too many. I am saddened about the ignorance of people. It's more important to bring a trophy picture home than to show some consideration? People kill me sometimes. And as I walked pissed and angry into the next exhibit (about environmental education), I saw this big board that was full of hand written notes by  children.
I read all of them and was in love with life all over. Back to the top... Kids are awesome! I had my positive outlook back. 


And all was good again. Yin and Yang. Up and down. Sometimes I hate roller coasters...

Making things wrong

Yesterday I called a good friend to ask for help: I had been going back and forth all day, between my head and my ‘being’. My head said: “you need to clean, you need to buy food, you need to work out”.  My being said: “everything is OK. It is clean, there is food, you can do what you choose".

For  the record: my place is always pretty clean, I rarely run out of food and I am in fairly good shape.

Let’s call my head the ‘machine’. So I called Peter up, saying: My machine is running me. I don’t want to be run by it. It drives me crazy….

Now, Peter is about 20 years younger than I am and he is a coach as well. He also understands the ‘machine’ talk and his remark to me was simple: “sounds like you are making your machine wrong. This creates a new layer of suffering”.

WHAM!

Peter remarks are so profound that I almost see a flash in the sky when he makes them.

He gave me the gift of understanding that making myself wrong creates suffering. Making a situation wrong creates suffering. Making people wrong creates suffering. I knew that and I had heard if before. But now I GET it.

It is what it is.  You can’t change it, BE with it. And then decide, what you want to do with it. Clean or not clean the house. Don’t suffer and don’t make it wrong.

Thank you Peter!