I met this cat tonight. I liked him a lot. His name is Fuzzy. And he is gray.

Which got me to thinking.

Both of those things can be said about life as we know it. Sometimes… life can be pretty fuzzy. And most of the time… there are a LOT of areas that are gray. (Yep…. it is not all black, and not all white.)

A good friend recently observed…

“You know. We all think we are right.” Hmmmm. There is a lot of truth in that. Our opinions. Our beliefs. Each one of us believes those thoughts to be true….. to be right.

Yet…. what is right for you, may not be right for me. And vice versa. So how do we find balance in that? I’m not sure.

More came of this discussion tonight… with yet more of this group of dear friends.

“We can not change what other people think.” (This is a hard one for me. Because… holy smokes… would I EVER love to change how some people think.)

And another in this group said, (basically), that she lives each day to the very best of her ability. (She is, by my estimation: honest, loving, caring, forthright, just, compassionate, and more… ) And then she goes to bed each night with the satisfaction of knowing that she lived that day with a kind and gentle heart. She cannot be worried by what others may think of her, if she lived that particular day in a true and honorable manner.

I was deeply affected by that sensibility.

I sometimes strive for the impossible. I get it in my head that I can somehow “change” the world. Change the thinking. I am now beginning to understand that it is far more beneficial to make good changes in myself. And far more achievable, on many levels, if I can be at peace with who I am and live my life on a noble path.

“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”
-Robert Fulghum

“For what you do to others, you do to yourself.”
-Eckhart Tolle