It seems every part of life is changing, luckily for the better. I will be getting more training and transitioning to a new position with my employer. It is similar to what I have been doing but is a CNA2 (certified nursing assistant) position instead of a CNA1 position. This means the scope of practice will increase, and I will report to the nursing team instead of the home health team. I’ve ruled out larger scale changes I was considering this year. Each year when my lease is up for renewal I go through the same series of evaluations. Is it time for a larger change? A move out of town? A move within the same town? A job change? A career change? Changes to other parts of my life?
Although I continue to write, my published book, publishing and all related activities continue to be on the back burner. Not every aspect of life is how I had wanted it to be, but the bottom line is, everything is going ok where I am, doing what I am doing. I have enough challenge and enough room and opportunity for growth. With logistics of life more consistent, I can focus on higher more important matters, like making myself stronger and healthier, and tending friendships and relationships, continuing to write, engage in creativity, and enjoying the current stability of life.
I forgive those that have interfered at any age, for whatever reason. I ask forgiveness if anyone has the point of view that I have wronged them in any way. That is never my intent. But more than that, I simply send love to each person I know and all I don’t know. Life is too short to have it be any other way. Life brings us great love, joy, successes, memories, accomplishments, experiences and people to befriend.
If you are someone I don’t know, my goal is to coexist peacefully with you whether or not we ever meet. If you are someone I know, my goal is to have a positive relationship whether acquaintance or closer friend. If you are one of my best friends, a close relative, or one of my pets, I try to be one of your ‘ups,’ and I appreciate how you are one for me.
If you do have grievance, have a conversation. Get counseling, think of a way to channel your negative energy around it into something positive. Tell the truth about others. Make amends if you wrong someone. Maneuver toxic relationships and get free of them if you need to.
As for wars and regional conflicts, I don’t have much to offer. I am not an expert at political science and don’t understand why they happen. I don’t think it is because any ordinary individual wants it. The chess games of power centers create suffering to benefit a few powerful people, then ordinary people are forced to take sides when none of them want to. What they all want is peace. My heart breaks for those caught in such situations.
Peace and only peace is how I have tried to live. I have heard it said we are all spiritual beings in earth suits. That fits. We only have our earth suits for a short time in this world. We can’t always control all aspects of the world, who is in it, what they do, pandemics, climate, or who wins the World Series. We do have control of what we think, speak and do, and how we react to things. That might not seem like much control over life, but in my experience, it is enough.