Bicycle of Life

October 19, 2020

Q: What is my genius (reference to the Gene Keys)?

A: Finding what truly matters and sitting with that and with others in their spaces of misery and trial and jubilation. For emotion is meant to be shared—to be experienced in connection with other and in discourse with oneself.

Q: Why did I find today so frustrating?

A: The past can equip one only so far. The present offers its own tools and jewels of wisdom. Reaching to the past for motivation is often not enough. One must find the reason and justification in living, here in the present moment. Yesterday’s manna and all that. It goes bad and cannot sustain life today. Try to be constant in your affirmations to yourself that love is always accessible—frustration is a block that says this moment has to be successful when measured against good progress in the past or projected wins in the future, but that is never now. Frustration kills joy for expectations are demolished in the everyday, messy process of living and dying and re-birthing ideas and energy into something new. The cycle never stops. Frustration can try to make you think a stick has become lodged in the spokes of life but metaphorically you are braking, trying to “back-pedal” and repeat yesterday’s victories. The bike can only move forwards as the wheels themselves cycle—moving forward and back, up and around. Trust the pedaler. Trust the maker of the bike. Trust the paver of the path you’re on. Frustration is saying no when parts need to die off or move backward in order to move forward. Say yes to the cycle, wherever you find yourself. Have intention of where you would like to go, the kind of person you want to be—but trust the cycle of everyday, mundane life to get you there. “The problem is the solution.”