The discipline comes in training our thoughts to neither make the remark okay...s/he didn't mean it, I misheard...nor to imagine even snarkier toppers, personalizing thus justifying our less-than-wonderful response.
Just yesterday morning I wrote those words as my how to train our own thoughts to give over, or, how to take nothing personally.
Yesterday around noon, I took an incredibly...and totally unexpected...sharp dig from a neutral acquaintance. I responded not at all, neither verbally nor mentally. Sometime later, after I had returned home, the remark came to mind, and hot? Whoa! Faster than a blinding flash of the obvious, I was spitting fire. It was more than apparent that I needed to find the humor in this so I quick called a friend who has a like mind for the absurd. It was either laugh about it or begin/continue resentment building. And laugh we did.
Further, in my yesterday's post, I wrote, We train our thoughts to go to God and the things of God...for instance, we can think of lilies of the valley, puppy dogs, rainbows. This is by way of adding one more choice: We can find a friend to laugh about it with.
It is the subtlety of life's happenings that take us so unaware, and that's the very core of why we must train our own mind to want to turn from ego-victory to spiritual growth. And, who's kidding whom? Ego victory by its right name, i.e., I WIN, is hard to hate.
I've taken to thinking of spiritual growth by its right name, Love and Laughter. What can I say? That just sounds a lot less plodding to me.
Thank you.
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