IT HIT ME LIKE A GRAPEFRUIT

The other day a friend told me something that I really synthesized as being a good old fashioned compliment. It moved my stoic sensibilities in the right direction.



I am not always sure how to react to compliments and like most people, I am not always sure that they are justly deserved.


The powerful words that were spoken to me were...."you inspire me".



Inspire: I wanted to take a look at that
definition:


"To influence, move or guide, to exert an animating, enlivening or exalting influence on"



The person who said this to me was referring to my attitude, empathy and the choices I have made over the last year. Very sweet to hear.



Interesting human beings seem to be serendipitously thrusting themselves into my world recently, and many of them exhibit extremely inspiring qualities that I find myself immediately gravitating towards.



Some of those qualities are honesty (to themselves and others) compassion, creativity, drive, determination, ridiculousness and kinetic energy.....



The more raw positive emotional energy that I put out there, the more it comes back to me times 2. This really isn't some New Age Diarrhea, it is really happening to me everyday.



Absolutely astounding.



Literally as I am writing this on the computer I just looked down at an incoming message from a new friend who is both spiritually and physically very confident.

The message communicates some positive things and then says that she appreciates that "I have high standards". Where is all this coming from?



My high standards that are being referred to, are simply me interpreting the ability to say that I have the power to shape the way I feel, every moment of every day.


It seems I do also have the opportunity to influence others in a proactive way by example, in any way that it might simply manifest.(Which is beyond me) Not in some formatted, robotic, pep talk kind of way, but through real emotion, personal successes, restriction of ego, self honesty and connection.


It's a powerful position to be in and all of it is being contemplated with a certain semblance of humility.



If somebody reads this and thinks that I have been eating too many dandelions for breakfast, that is ok. I didn't really relate to all of this when it was first introduced to me either.



There is no such thing as spiritual coercion, so I don't think for a second that I should start plying people on street corners to make a change in their lives, it's really not up to me.



And for the record I am going to borrow a phrase from my new mercurial artist friend P. that used the words......."in the realm of present full choice living"



I AM THINKING THAT IT'S A DAMN GOOD PLACE TO RESIDE..



BE THERE NOW..



That's my advice to myself and I am sticking to it. I won't even have to go down the rabbit hole ever again to get there.



Rick