TIME PASS

Every so often, You might have watched various groups and individuals attempting to conspire. Even when their aims and objectives are in perfect harmony, even when the people involved are highly intelligent and sensitive, I have never seen such efforts succeed. Eventually, they fall apart, the conspirators undermine each other, the plans fall flat. Now, let us not ask who is responsible for the circumstances that you wish were so different. Let us look only at who may have power to change them. The answer to that is... you.  You see people around you who have special skills,smart and able brimming with confidence still it does not mean they can score well. Because there are many more special skills which are rare and they simply fail to value. You may be too clever for some of the people around you now, but you are not too clever for your own good Or at least we do as long as we can understand where exactly that little voice wants us to turn.  We may get confused. 'Did it mean just here? Or did it mean just further up the road?' Imagine if it really were super-specific. 'Turn left by that building with the red door. Turn right where that elderly gentleman is walking his dog.' That would be weird. Sometimes, it is equally weird when people share too much detail about any matter, especially if it is supposed to be private.Don't worry, about a thing, 'cause every little thing's gonna be alright ' How annoying of - Fancy perpetrating such a message of reassurance when the world is full of so many things that surely aren't going to be all right and definitely deserve to be worried about. Isn't it? Don't they? If all we had to do to solve life's problems was whistle a merry little tune, why do we have all those politicians and armies?  Life is not always so simple but sometimes, it is nearly so simple. For you, now, it is that simple! If life really is some kind of punishment, our cosmic captors had best be careful. If they push us too hard and make things too unbearable, we will become so numb that we will feel no more pain! So for that reason, if no other, there have to be moments of joy and delight. And when we feel those, we completely forget the idea that it is all about struggle and strife, which of course, it isn't! You will  find plenty to celebrate and it will help you shake-off some of the negativity that has lately taken up too much of your time. It took Pablo Picasso many years of painting in a much more conventional style before he finally developed the very angular and disjointed technique for which he is famous. Though some people look at his work and say, 'A child could do that.' It is all actually very controlled and deliberate. He once explained how, in order to paint in such a way, he had to unlearn everything he had learned before. It must have been very liberating. It certainly brought him great success. Might letting go bring you similar joy and delight. They say, 'There's nothing new under the sun.' In one way, that's true. Technology has got a lot smarter but we still use it for much the same purposes. We still need to communicate, we still seek entertainment, we still go through much the same processes as ever we did. Life for you now, seems to involve a repeat performance of some drama that you thought you had played out long ago. In some ways, your challenge is a similar one. But your ability to learn from experience is about to work most impressively in your favour. Even people with good memories need a to-do list. How annoying would it be if they were to forget some essential item? But most of us also need a to-don't list. We ought to make ourselves one of these and regularly check it to make sure that we are not worrying about something that we might as well pay no more heed to - or experiencing a negative emotion about something that we really should just be letting go of.  We are used to put far too much of our precious energy into what's now a redundant concern. Relax! When we run on emotions and instincts and  not supposed to make dry, analytical, decisions based only on facts. But of course you are perfectly capable of doing this, you do it all the time. It is only when you allow fears or worries to get the better of you, that you can't so easily access such inner powers. Yet right now, you have nothing to fear. Are you doing something difficult or are you just doing something time-consuming. There's a subtle but crucial difference? You are currently inclined to feel a little hard done by. You've got a lot on your plate. In a way, it is more than many other people seem to have on their plates and you don't have much by way of an option to ignore it. But there's nothing here that you can't take care of if you apply a little steady effort. Break a task into bite size chunks and proceed one small step at a time. All will be well.  Imagine the world's greatest high-wire walker, trained in circus skills from the earliest age and able to keep their balance under almost any circumstances. So here they are, ready to pick up their long poles and start crossing the great divide. The equipment has been carefully checked for safety. The audience is ready to watch with awe. What can possibly go wrong? Only one thing. If the acrobat suddenly succumbs to a fit of self-doubt, all is lost. You know what you are capable of now; don't question that. There's a phrase that gets used sometimes, about folk who are overly keen to be helpful and agreeable. They are dismissed by less accommodating characters as 'people pleasers'. Actually, even the sharpest and the toughest among us, have to do a degree of people-pleasing from time to time. And they learn exactly the same as the more socially fluid and easier-going amongst us also eventually learn. There's simply no pleasing some people! Even so, it is often a very worthwhile thing to attempt.