Comments on: Why You Should Accept Everything in Life Just the Way it is

By: Judson Dadey

Judson Dadey — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:19:27 +0000

Hi, Thanks for your post. You’ve helped me a lot.

By: Doublehelix

Doublehelix — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:02:30 +0000

I wish I had you to help me draft a letter to apply for copywriting jobs. I have been working in a field that has become like a vanishing rabbit trail. Jobs are becoming more scarce, and any attempts to make myself more marketable have led to just more money put out and less jobs. Like IT, schools filled up the positions. I find myself with experience looking at ads, and I kid you not, say “0-1 year” experience wanted.
The last interview was pretty much a joke. A woman sat across from me and could not answer my questions. She didn’t know anything about the job, just that they were not paying benefits because the (professional) position was “3-4 days, 9-10 hours per day.” I asked how that wasn’t full time. She said when I wasn’t working on their premises, if someone cancelled an appointment, I would not get paid. I refrained from WTF, and thought about how utterly cheap these people were.
I need to do something else. I need to find another path. I can joke it up about things, but seriously this is getting to me. Coworkers from my last job said they missed me, as I always poked fun at things when stressed out. But it gets tiring making fun of such idiocy and incompetency out there. I’d like to be saying nice things for a change.
I have decided to embrace the creative part of me, the part I went to school and embraced many moons ago. I now look at my talents, ask myself what I have to lose, since I have invested so much in another field and got nowhere.
I guess I have to convince myself that I am worthy of applying for a writing job before I can convince “them.”
You said “When you identify with your past, it owns you. You must own yourself.” So how do I own myself?
I need a ton of software education to really make it, since creativity isn’t really much more than the cashew at the bottom of the nut box.

What I need is a crystal ball aka path in life.

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:16:13 +0000

@ Michele: I’m sorry to hear about the tragedy.

But certainly… we must be careful where we direct our essence. And always ask ourselves whether where we’re directing it is helpful or not.

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:38:03 +0000

Every moment you spend directing your energies toward circumstances that aren’t ideal is a moment you could instead be directing your powers into actions that will improve your life.

This is so true, Bamboo. I’ve recently gone through family tragedy that was out of my control and it was exhausting because I directed my energies toward it….

I’m now working on focusing on the positive, the future.

Thanks for a great post!

Michele

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:21:14 +0000

@ Bakari: Martial arts is a great way to let go. You study your art and by doing so you’re directing your energy into something truly life enhancing.

By: Bakari

Bakari — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:43:45 +0000

Letting go is a very special art and one that I admit has to be practiced and is not acquired.

On a separate note, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is a fabulous release for me. On the days that I train I am on cloud nine for the rest of the day. For some people, that is how they let things go. (I know you used it to make a point but as a practitioner of BJJ I couldn’t resist commenting on it.)

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:53:28 +0000

@ Patti: Thank you.

@ Tabbie: My instructor once said to me… “Simple doesn’t mean easy.” Well… We are mentors and counselors to many a people. Hah.

@ Chris: Exactly. That’s the irony. In a sense by letting go, you’re really holding on.

By: Chris Thurmond

Chris Thurmond — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:17:12 +0000

letting go of things and letting them be just the way they are is so often given a negative wrap as if its some kind of impotence to try and make a change. I think your post shed like on the actual reasons to let go, so you can fully grab on to what it is you truely want. The idea of ‘freeing up energy’ is great too because thats exactly what happens when you release on all the stress and anxiety that builds up in the ego mind, you free up all this energy that you had been using keeping yourself down and creating the kind of life you want becomes a creative work of art.

By: Tabbie

Tabbie — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:35:44 +0000

Simple but sooooo true! Why is it that the simple lessons are sometimes the hardest to learn? You guys would make excellent counselors for high school kids (or people in rehab) (or folks down at the unemployment office) (or…you get the idea)!

By: patti

patti — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:19:54 +0000

bamboo-

Awesome post!!!- Your insight is amazing-and thank-you for the reminder!!