I love Road trips especially when I am driving.
Why? Its simple. For me driving is fun. I like seeing new things and exploring new environments, and I really value the peace and safety being inside a safe, comfortable vehicle brings.
No this is not about my last article. I felt good on road trips even in cars that were less safe and comfortable than what I last rented. This is about the feeling that you are discovering something new, and that you can be lead by a helpful force greater than yourself.
I have shared before that I am not religious, so I am not talking about god. No one is whispering to me do this. I just have a feeling sometimes to do certain things, and when I follow that special feeling it has lead to the unfolding of my surprisingly wonderful life.
This isn’t to brag. This is about listening to your body, heart, mind, spirit and anyone who is more mature and wise than you. This is about being guided by experience, wisdom and something other than ourselves.
I am a limited being. I don’t know everything and I can’t arrogantly state that my way is the best way, It works for me, and your way may work for you. What has been true for me is that when I am open to life, I often have kind of signs in my life about what I may want to do next.
For example, one of my content creators is talking about projectors and sharing his experience. He brought up several good points that I didn’t think of, and I wondered if this was a sign that I should perhaps buy the better screen that I had researched. I am not buying it now of course, because what I have is working well, but I might buy it for Christmas if the rest of this year turns out ok.
I don’t need to buy things to be happy. Happiness is just something that you have. You enjoy life because even though there are non pleasurable parts, pleasure doesn’t have anything to do with happiness. You can be happy with or without pleasure. Happiness is a state where you don’t work toward it, you accept it. You accept the uncertainty of life and you flow with life and not need to control and dominate.
I think the reason that most people are unhappy in life is they have told themselves a lie that they need stuff to be happy. Other than your basic needs being met, and sometimes not even that, you can be happy. I know I have been, and life continues to grow more profoundly happy as I accept surrender.
Surrender is not submission. It is not giving up. I still work to improve my life and others, but ultimately I am just a small part in a very very big wheel.