Outside the Box

Cavorting outside the box is simple when you let go of self-consciousness, egoism and simply live life with zest.  When you open your eyes and go “holy cow, another great day” and you aren’t even trying to be cheerful, that’s zestiness with a capital Z.  Okay, slow down pardner, and get with the program.  Ah, program?

       Sure we can’t all, or always, be 100% on top of our game.  I get that.  But when you can let your imagination, creativity, gusto, energy, what-have-you run the gamit of fun and wonder, I call that a great day.

       Brake, brake, brake.  Yes, I know.  Life gets in the way.  Life being all the crappy things that can happen along the road of zest. And when that happens sometimes we actually have to slow down and accept that “something just happened” even though it is something relatively minor, that it’s out of your control, and that it kind of sucks.  So we see grey clouds drop a veil over the great day ahead of us.

       Here’s where the miracle of meditation (no, not medication) comes in.  Here’s where you allow the crap to ride over you but you can still pick yourself up, dust yourself off and recover the day.  Carpe diem, my friends, carpe diem.  Or in other words Get Over It.

       Carpe diem.