Satisfactory Ending

 Just by recognizing the nature of story...by looking at it ...we are getting out of it... The fiction of 'little me' can only sustain itself if it remains an unconscious movement. 

Eckhart Tolle

Hmmm! We, as the proverbial "little me" are always telling ourselves stories about who or what we are in this drama of life and it is usually not a very pleasant story. This need for the unsatisfactory story leads to a need for a happy ending, a dependence on outcome and a stepping over, pushing aside or a dismissing of the present moment to get somewhere up there where the great satisfactory ending is supposed to be. We are so attached to this momentum of getting somewhere up there in this busy world and  we are also more  attached to outcome  than we are to process.

If someone tells us that our future is being taken from us...we panick because we realize that we won't reach the ending that we were so looking forwrad to.  The thing is there really is no story anywhere but in our minds.  There is just the beginning of Life, the climax of Life, the lows of Life, the highs of Life and the ending of Life all occurring right now in this here, in this now. ...the only time and place it can occur. There is no happy ending to make all this twisted plot we travelled through worthwhile... up there.  There is just this! 

So?

So we shouldn't hold our breath and wait for the satisfactory moment to come...We shouldn't deny, push away, avoid or stuff what is happening right here, right  now in hope that our satisfaction is something up there we need to get to.  

Be conscious of your story and your dependence on it.  Be conscious of this "little me" entity that seems to be starring in the drama we create in our minds. Be conscious of your tendency to step over what is right here and now...and instead...look deeply into what is right here and now.  Allow it, embrace it, make peace with it and let it go. Just as the beginning or your story is here and now, so is the ending. 

Put down the fiction novel you are so intent on starring in and breathe right here and right now.  This is your life! 

All is well.