Day 269 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Nothing Matters...

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Lesson 269: Nothing Matters...

“Nothing matters. Everything matters. Somewhere between the two is a great place to live your life.”

— Sara Wiseman

Today we are to think about one thing we might do if nothing mattered. Alternatively, what would you do if everything mattered?

If nothing mattered, I would sell my home, leave the country and go live somewhere where money wasn’t important. Some peaceful community and live off the land. I would love to have no responsibility and live free in peace. It would be as if I dropped off the face of the Earth and be more connected to nature. Kind of like how our ancestors lived.

I feel like I have too many obligations at home for me to just live as if nothing mattered. I have cats I look after. I work to support myself so I have food to eat and have a roof over my head. I live in a westernised society and with that comes certain responsibilities that we have placed on ourselves really. I work for a large corporation and do the whole 9-5 life.

I don’t know what I would do if everything mattered. I think I would be cautious as to how I project myself into the world. I think if everything mattered, then image would matter. I think I would live a life of care in appearance and how others perceive me, I guess? I’m really not sure how to answer this because I live in the middle of these 2 extremes – I don’t care what people think of me, I’m quite open and honest, I live my life how I want to, I don’t live my life how others want me to and I’m working towards my own goals for the first time in my life.

I think it would be easier to live a life where nothing mattered than if everything mattered. I think there would be so much pressure to live a life if everything mattered. It would be some idealistic lifestyle of perfection which is not sustainable. It’s like living that dream of nice car, nice house, good job and good family. Something that everyone seemed to want to achieve because it mattered in society but doesn’t leave room for mistakes. If nothing mattered, there would be less pressure but then maybe some people would go down the path of complacency, because if there was no point, then why do it? I looked at the question more in the way of, if you had no responsibility, then what would you do? Not sure if that was the way to go, but it seemed right to me. What do you think?

Day 269 - A Year to Clear - When in Doubt, Wait it Out

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Lesson 269: When in Doubt, Wait it Out

Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you just didn’t know how to resolve it? Did you start cycling in your mind various scenarios and outcomes though not really making a strong decision on any answer? Today’s lesson is about just letting go trying to control an outcome when you really don’t know what to do in the situation. If your instincts aren’t strong in either the yes or no column, are you able to walk away from the situation for some time and maybe look at it with fresh eyes at a later stage?

At the moment, I am going through a personal situation – something I can’t talk about in case of peeping eyes, whereby I am lost on what to do. A lot of the advice from friends is just to walk away from the situation, but there is this guilty feeling I have by simply walking away. I feel bad because I feel like I owe in this situation, when really I shouldn’t be made to feel this way. I think I actually just need a break from that particular environment and just not think about it for a few days or weeks even. I think for my own mental health, it’s best not to speculate and  I need to occupy my mind with other things. Like this lesson is teaching, until you know for sure what to do, leave it until you do know. That’s what I am going to do. No need to ponder on it, just release it from my mind and do something else to occupy it. I’ll wait and see how I feel about it next week.