Two weeks

One week just full of tension and difficult situations

Nothing to do about them

No way to change things

Just having to hang in and take it

Holding tension all week

Mind spinning around with negative possibilities

Never leaving you alone

Mind insisting to go over and over nasty scenarios

Week finally ends

New week arrives

The dreaded meeting/situation occurs

The outcome is positive not at all as you had imagined

The world did not end, life did not stop

Amazing how you had never thought of that possibility

Never imagined that outcome

Relief is amazing

And then other nice things come along

All unexpected

Life is good again

Tiring too as the stress comes off

A day or two of rest with the relief pouring out

Balance returns, humor too

Two weeks, one down one up

When will we ever learn that life is cycles

Nature all around us works in cycles

Pretty well everything does

We are the same our life has cycles of tough times and others of well being

Smart people learn to flow with these cycles

All of us can handle the good times

Or can we?

Too many go over the top

So when the harder times arrive the adjustment is more brutal

The trick is to find a way to shorten the distance between difficult and pleasurable

Soften the curve if you will

Not to go so high in the good times and not to go so low in the bad

If we can learn this then life is much more agreeable

And the how?

Control of the mind

Not getting so carried away when times are good and not allowing the mind to spin in negative circles when times are harder

Same story whatever we look at in our lives

Controlling our minds is all

No mind

No stress

No not drugs they come at too high a price

Just learning to empty the mind

No thoughts good or bad

Just being

Like little children living in the moment

What will next week bring?

Who cares

Live life now in this moment now

Learn to let things go

Learn to live in this moment now