Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by everything happening at once.” Paulo Coelho
I’ve been living with this quote for a while, not sure that to do with it. Thinking on it today, it occurs to me that much of life, my life at least, is spent in the “too much” or “not enough” lanes, so much so that it has become easy to see life as a two-lane road that has only those two options – and I spend my time swerving from one to the other. Recently, mainly based on discussions with a friend who is focusing on “sufficiency,” I have been contemplating a different construction. What if the road of life were viewed as a single lane road of “sufficiency,” and I relegated those “too much” and “not enough” thoughts to the shoulders on either side, or even (on a good day) to the borrow ditch on either side.
It occurs to me... 