My life is up to me

We GET to live this life.  The question is, HOW are we going to live it?

There is a beautiful quote stated from the late and great Groucho Marx who was an actor and comedian in the early 1900's and he depicts "my life is up to me" in such an effortless way.

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.  I can choose which it shall be.  Yesterday is dead and tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.  I have just one day, today, and I am going to be happy in it."  - Groucho Marx

There is a declaration within this quotation.  He astoundingly and courageous affirms that "I" not events!  You see, we become enslaved to our circumstances sometimes.  There is a powerless moment where we somewhat throw in the towel and say, there is nothing I can do about it.  But as we say this, we are giving our power away to the very thing that has no power in the first place and forget that there is something we can do about it...shift our perspective and declare a choice.

What we experience is a direct correlation to how we view it.  An easy example is 5 o'clock traffic.  For some, all hell breaks loose and its like everyone is purposefully cutting them off and whatever else you can imagine while also creating such turmoil within their own thoughts; residing in that victim state (ego).  Where in reality, this is a point of view.  For another person, sitting in 5 o'clock traffic can be an act of generosity, where they consider others merging into lanes, allowing them the space to get where they need to go.  As you see, this person has a point of view more about the whole rather than the part.  In essence, if we took a step back and looked at 5 o'clock traffic as a whole, EVERYONE is trying to get from point A to point B, some more aggressively than others but again, that potential aggressiveness is a lack of consciousness and awareness thus they carry it with them when in traffic and actions of that sate of being will follow.  As the brilliant Ram Dass said, "we are all just walking each other home".

When I say, my life is up to me, what I am really saying is that, "I get to choose how I want to view every experience because my perspective is what shapes it."  As you may see, there is an important few words within what I just said... "I get to choose" and generally speaking making a choice takes consciousness, it takes awareness, the ability to wipe your lens clear and see it for what it is...its whatever you want it to be!

Because remember, "my life is up to me"