Inspiration...

...can come in unusual places.

"The best times of your life have not yet been lived."
Fortune Cookie

It's true, isn't it? Each day that you wake up is full of possibilities, full of choices. You chose to get up and go to work today, when you could have chose to call in sick and sleep in or just play hooky.

But, there are some who claim they don't have a choice, they HAVE TO go to work because they need to pay their bills. Yet, isn't that a choice? You could have just as easily chosen not to go to work and the consequence of that choice is that you don't get paid. Granted, some choices are forced choices, but still they are a choice. It really boils down to you CHOOSING to travel down a path that has the highest probability of a foreseeable outcome. However, there is still a chance that while you chose to go to work you might get there to find out like the DHL folks that you no longer have a job.

All of this ties into this passage that I read the other day which has really caused me to re-evaluate how I'm "living" life.

From Osho: Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 13

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....

I have always prided myself for being the ultimate planner and now, I'm not so sure this is really how I want to go through life. This will require changes in thinking and being and a whole heck of a lot of faith.