don’t fret

I recently received a text from someone in response to a conversation we’d had a couple of days earlier. Frankly, it was out of character for the kind of interactions we usually have, but it was so full of wisdom that it stopped me dead in my tracks. One of those moments in which I felt like the Universe itself sent me that text. Here’s what it said…

Don’t fret over existential concerns. Believe in the virtue of your own goodness. It will liberate and uplift you. There is an ease to acceptance that is nourishing.

What do you think of them apples?

Let’s break this down a bit, because there is great wisdom in these ideas and I think they apply to all of us.

Don’t fret over existential concerns.

To be perfectly frank, I had to look up existential to make sure I knew what it meant for sure. It’s not a word that crosses my lips on the regular.

OK, that helped. A little. So basically don’t concern yourself with the experiences you have no control over.

Believe in the virtue of your own goodness. It will liberate and uplift you.

Other than having a sick and inappropriate sense of humor, I do my best to be a good person and to be kind and respectful of others. It is liberating to know that even if I’ve been wronged in some way, I can still hold my head up high, because I do my best to live my life with integrity.

And finally…

There is an ease to acceptance that is nourishing.

This one is a mind-blower.

Once you accept yourself and your circumstances – and this is not necessarily a simple thing – but once you gain that acceptance in your life, there becomes an ease about you and about the way you exist in the world. That ease then becomes something of a self-fulfilling prophesy. The more comfortable with yourself and your place in the cosmos and the more you accept you as you are in this world, the more you nourish the self and grow stronger and more comfortable. And so on and so on and so on.

So, my friends, don’t fret.