This has been on my list for a long time because I can never actually figure out what it means. And yet, I can’t let myself delete it either, so there must be something to it.
Actually, the other day I was at work and there wasn’t much to do, so I was sitting in the dining room chatting with one of the other pedagogues. He’s the type of guy who as a rule is always in a good mood. He makes jokes a lot, and his laughter is infectious.
He has a simple life: wife, kids, house, job. I don’t envy his life, and definitely not his work. But sometimes I do envy his attitude toward life. I don’t think he agonizes over things, you know. For instance, I mentioned in conversation that I have been sad because my friends from home seem so distant now that I have been away for three years, and with his usual smile he replied with something close to, “But friends come and go, that’s how it is.”
I realized he doesn’t worry at all about things I worry tons about, like losing friends, being alone… he takes things as they are, face value, tends to see more positive than negative in the way life flows, doesn’t ask but always has more than he needs.
And because he’s comfortable with himself, he doesn’t agonize over choices. When you trust yourself things sort themselves out more easily and choices aren’t so hard to make.
Ok, now I feel like I’m rambling. But there is something here, there’s something to learn that might make life a whole lot easier to deal with. :)
