The HUMAN condition......

The Human condition........The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, morality, conflict, ... I have come to understand so much about the human condition over time.....it is my bliss.....hearing other human's stories.....and listening deeply to the places they have been and where they want to go and be in their lives.....but the human condition is wildly complicated....for so many reasons.....and sometimes I believe it is the conflict we find between earthly things and our soul and spirit......the battle between the two worlds if you will.....being a human and focusing on just what is external.....human things.....is for sure in conflict with what our spirit and soul crave......it is so much deeper than all that....but it is a conflict that lives in all of us.......and I think that is what makes life more complicated sometimes than it needs to be, or should be???? Maybe........maybe it is the separation of those two things and the struggle within......I think part of the peace I have now comes from the fact that I turned away from some of the external, and focused on what it is I am supposed to understand inside of myself, and started listening to the wisdom of my soul.....a wisdom that has lived there all along but the noise of the rest drowned it out for so long....and the truth is we all struggle.....all of us.....and I have been trying, in the moments I become frustrated or upset with a person, to default to empathy and compassion for their human condition.......sometimes we have power over all of that, but sometimes we are just doing the best we can from our own limited perspective, or vantage point.....and grace and understanding is what is needed.......as I type this I seek to be more in touch with my spirit and soul each and every day......because I have found that is where I get to go to the places that I seek to be and it is what fills me up in ways that nothing outside of myself ever has and will......I had therapy Saturday.....and it was powerful.......lots to discuss.....the craziness of this last week......and therapy helps so much......to unspin the yarn and hear yourself.....your spirit......not your thinking mind.......that part falls away and that is why we seek those things, or why therapy works......we are disconnecting from what is around us and going deeply into who and what we are......meditating gets you there too.......prayer......exercise and moving our bodies.......I tried to take yesterday off and not do any exercise......it was my plan.....Sundays off.....but I spent the earlier part of the day spinning a little into some stuff, and I knew a walk......a simple walk would manage the chatter.....and it did:) So I suppose I write this to highlight that we all possess a human condition......most people don't want their condition to bleed on our own......but sometimes it does......and in those moments we can choose to understand and extend grace and understanding......instead of anger and judgment, and then the narrative can change for them and for ourselves......every single time......