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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
From cosmic lamplighters to earthen sorjourners, the basic premise remains the same: the effects of actions never fully go unnoticed or unfelt. Just like the cosmic trail left behind by Tempel-Tuttle, you roar through your day as well - leaving behind a trail of wonderful encounters or of havoc and emotional destruction. It is for you to decide. We are social creatures by nature and are greatly and subtlely impacted by each encounter we have with another, each day of the week. When you arrive home at the end of the day, you are the cumulative combination of all your encounters and the process by which you filtered those encounters. How about an example? A man leaves his home in the morning, after having a brief argument with his wife. The source of their argument? Their inability to balance their schedules in their fast paced life. Without any significant resolution, he leaves home - and a few minutes late for work. He sits behind a vehicle that takes a few extra seconds at an intersection, after the light turns green. He cruises the parking lot of his work establishment for an extra minute as there are very few parking spots available. He rushes through his mundane morning appointments, never quite "getting ahead" of his schedule. At lunch, he rushes to the local department store and encounters you in an aisle, where you are simply trying to pass one another in this narrow aisle. Bumping each other, he utters a derogatory word and continues on his way. You reflect on the encounter later in your vehicle but can't understand why he would say what he did to you - it upsets you and you head home... What you are completely unaware of in this situation: is the argument
that lit the man's emotional fuse for the day; We leave behind a trail, a wake of experiences and encounters with which so many unsuspecting individuals will collide and bombard. It is your choice, as it is for each of us, to decide the trail you leave behind. Will it be a wake of emotional destruction, hurt feelings and misunderstandings? Or will it be the sweet fragrance of compassion, understanding and warmth that will wash over others? It is small solar system out there - enough to annually collide with the thin trail left behind by Tempel-Tuttle. And it's an even smaller world down here - it's so thick with lamplighters, you can't help but take one step and bump into another's very soul. Make it a powerful and productive step, my friend. |
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