Choices

I was poised at my laptop this morning trying to get my thoughts together for today's blog when my cat, Tiger, unaware that I was "working" jumped into my lap without invitation. He is a fifteen pound orange Tabby with a purr so loud and rhythmic it makes me want to stop whatever it is I'm doing and just worship him, which is always his intent I'm quite sure. I read once that the simple act of stroking a cat for a few minutes every day can add years to your life. So, I have two just in case. I'm all for adding more years to my life as long as they are quality years...(see yesterday's blog).

I used to be so stressed and worried about everyday life that I was wired for high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, type II diabetes, brain aneurysm, or cancer. I did spend a few years in a depressive funk and gained back all the weight (110+) that I lost years ago. Turning forty last year was my wake up call. Life is a gift...let me say it again, life is a gift! It is a beautiful thing to wake up and hear songbirds outside your window greeting the day the only way they know how...with music and song. They praise the creation of another glorious day. They don't piss and moan about the crappy economy, or higher taxes, or health care reform. Maybe they would if they turned on their TV, because according to the media we're all suffering immeasurably and it's just getting worse, or so I hear. I don't watch the news anymore. I don't need someone telling me over and over again just how bad things are. I'm smart enough to figure that out for myself, thank you very much. Besides, social consciousness can effect the nature of reality. If you say a thing is so long enough, it will be so. It's just the law of the Universe. I don't let it effect me. I choose to focus my energy on positive thinking instead.

This world in which we live is a beautiful and wondrous place. Lots of people ask me why I call my blog Entanglement. Entanglement is a quantum theory that everything in the Universe is connected, and intimately linked on some level that is beyond time and space. I like that. Even though we as a people are different on so many levels we share this commonality...we are connected at some deeper level that we don't yet comprehend. The "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" rule starts to hit home now. If I do something to you, then I am really doing it to me as well because we are all connected. Was Jesus giving a lesson in quantum theory two thousand years ago, and explaining it in a way people of the time would understand? I like to think he was...

So, I choose to laugh, because laughter is the best medicine. I choose to stop and smell the roses, because they are put here for me to enjoy. I choose to create my circumstances, not let my circumstances choose me. I choose a lightness of being, because a heavy heart causes illness. I choose to believe that anything is possible, even that at some unfathomable level I am connected to you, Mother Earth, the sun, moon, stars, the Creator and all of the infinite unseen of the Universe. Now, that's worth getting out of bed for, my friend!