Today, I have been thinking long and hard about paradoxes.

As life would have it… the more you consider certain paradoxes… the more confusing the situation seems.

To define it in abbreviated terms, a paradox is when you have…. let’s say…. more than one boat.  Yes.  You have two boats.  So you need more than one dock.  You then…… have a pair of docks.
Sorry.
Paradox.   It is a statement or proposition that, despite sound ( or what seems like sound reasoning ) ….. leads one to a conclusion that seems senseless….. or logically unacceptable.

A paradox is basically a contradiction,  inconsistency, or incongruity.
Some days… I feel like I am a complete and total anomaly.    From minute to minute when I am really on a roll.

But there is a point to this.  Sometimes life itself doesn’t seem to make sense.  There are moments when everything seems like it is all just spinning around on the Crazy-Axis.  But among this crazy world… we can also know calm.  And peace.

You see….  We are okay.  Exactly as we are.  No matter what society, or our conditioning, or guilt may be telling us…. WE ARE OKAY.

Sometimes, with me….  I have a hidden feeling…..  that I could be doing things better.  I will get this feeling that  I am  not quite sure how to live life.  I mean,  what if I am doing this all wrong.

But the message I get time and again… paradoxical or not…. is that the universe is going the way it should be going.  And so is everything in it.

There is no need to be anything else, or anywhere else, but where we are at this very moment.  Every moment.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.  —  Thich Nhat Hanh