More Thoughts on Good and Bad

“May serenity become your best tool for life!” and “The future is a gift that may completely be, or completely not be, what you expected!”

These two thoughts were set close together in my first notes that have come together to become what was going to be a book, but then became a few articles instead, of which this the final one. I can certainly see I had a bit of a yin and yang thing going on with both.

Living a serene life is a life many of us look toward living, whether now, soon, on retirement, when we finally do, or get, or lose … something. Serenity truly is a good tool. Serenity is when you simply allow things to happen, wafting over you, as you remain serenely at peace.

Normal living doesn’t often simply hand such moments to you, it may in fact take a lot of work, to enable a person the chance to have a serene moment. I know I am able to grab my serene moments, here and there, and I love them. My times sitting on my back veranda, with Nature, and the clouds and birds — blissful serenity, with those tweeting and chirping birds giving me a soundtrack, it’s delightful, and calming!

I also know the time in life I am in now, a middle aged woman, beyond child-bearing, this is the time when I am realising why many mature women seem serene. Their struggling life has changed, because they now have the knowledge to know which battles are worth fighting, and so can leave the others behind.