Monday, May 19, 2014

Monday Morning Platitudes


This year is killing me! As a fantasy/sci-fi fan, I see death more as a transformation than the Death of nightmares, its bony fingers poking at you...



But I digress.  I have been contemplating change for months. Change was stalking me and I pretended it couldn't touch me. It stared me in the face and I laughed at it.

You can’t touch me, fool!” (Then I laughed like a villain in an old Japanese epic film because I am a nerd.)

I saw it coming and I felt its cold claws grab at my ankles. I fought it, and I should know better. Change is inevitable.

One must accept change, embrace it, become one with it, and move on. Change happens for a reason – often nature’s way to balance itself out.


Sometimes it is hard to get to that realization without speaking platitudes to oneself. Today I spent the whole day doing this and, dear lord is that tiresome! So, as therapy, I offer you a load of platitudes which you should feel free to cut and paste and use during your next crises as need be...

When the Universe closes a path in your journey, as much as it’ll hurt to take the reins and shut off the autopilot, all it means is that the road is closed. It doesn’t mean your journey is over. Simply traveling on another plane can bring untold joy to our lives, but we must stop bellyaching about changing lanes in order to notice. And if you should lose a passenger or two, then live with it because even this does not mean death.

Everything in life is temporary, all things shall pass.

Yeah, existential angst just ain't funny... it's a bitter little pill!

Sometimes things don’t work out the way you thought they might.

You can fight it or you can mourn it. That’s your choice, but it is also futile. Acknowledge that the moment has ended, be thankful for having had the experience, and then remember what it brought to your life and what it taught you.

Let the rest of it go. It’s the only way you’ll know peace.

Everything in life is temporary. You cannot force anything or anyone to remain.

Don’t resist change. It’s like fighting an invisible army – it’ll be exhausting and you can never win.


Sometimes part of your journey comes with a mate; some parts of your journey are for you alone. Should you lose a partner in the race and not know why, let it go too. If there was an important lesson there, you would have gotten it. Perhaps getting nothing back is the very lesson in it—because then you’d gotten back exactly what it was worth.

In the whirlwind of change, sometimes it is also necessary to forgive. Forgive when no apology is coming or offered, simply accept what is and forgive. Don't forget the lesson, but forgive any offense (if one was given).


Forgive because bitterness is a rusting agent for your soul. Forgive because it will bring you peace. Forgive because it is the only way to move forward happily.

Most importantly, take ownership of whatever may have been your fault and forgive yourself. The same principles apply for you as they do for others, but it is far more important because you have to live with yourself to the end.

If you invested in it more than you thought you had to give, know that broken hearts mend and no one in the history of the world has ever died of disillusionment. Write a bad poem and get the hell over it!


If all else fails, I hear whiskey is a cure-all. Have a cry, have a drink, promise to not be such a sap next time, move on. And if nothing else, you would have had a glass of whiskey.


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