“Be careful” … “Take care” … “Be safe” … “Take it easy”

Yeah … right. These valedictions (and all others like them) might be well-intended, and yet they really don’t help us to live any longer — and they certainly don’t help us to live any more Meaning-fully.

Indeed, there is literally no way we can ever fulfill any of them with any certainty, for no matter how careful, protective, safe or laid-back we choose to be, life has a way of sneaking up on us all.

As P. G. Wodehouse so aptly put it: “It’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”

So, seeing as how we can’t ever hope to be fully prepared or totally secure, I’ve got a better idea … Let’s live today completely; without an ounce of hope or an inkling of expectation. Let’s live it fully, as if it were our last; allowing it to absolutely overflow with rich, thick, joyful moments of reckless Caring, headlong Generosity and wild Compassion.

Yeah … That sounds more like it.

 

 

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