Results or consequences are never really in your hands
If you know how your digestive system works, you can almost predict the type of stool that will be produced. If you’ve had a lot of vegetables, your poo would be soft. If you have consumed protein, your poo will be solid and will sink. If you’ve had a fatty meal then expect your poo to float. But can you accurately describe the details of each poo, its shape, its exact colour, the contours it has, how the corn that you ate will distribute itself, how much your poo will weigh and what will be its length? No. How your poo forms in its exact detail is unpredictable, and you don’t care. What’s important is that you pooed and you produced close to what you expected, if you are even concerned about what comes out. The exact details of the result don’t really matter because you accept that the digestion process is not in your control. How food passes through your bowels is not under your control. You have accepted this and life continues.
Having goals, visions and missions in life are good things to have. The underlying idea is that a person has a purpose for existence. There is the life mission, there are 10-year visions, and there are daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals. There is purpose. But what happens if you don’t meet the goals, the visions and the mission? What if you fail or are failing to achieve all of these? As I write this, I am 30 years old, unmarried, still studying, failed medical school once, unsettled and, and, and … the list can go on and so can yours if you wanted to. I never planned to be where I am, and I thought by this stage I would be elsewhere in life; have a stable earning, wife and kids, and settled somewhere. You may have thought that you may be elsewhere in different areas of your life. But life doesn’t come with guarantee cards and you can’t return the unexpected results to the life shop. You have to live with what you get. And that can be hard to accept. But is it?
What we consume, is pretty much the only thing we can naturally control. We do our best to ensure that what we eat and drink is clean, healthy for our standards, and mostly we eat that which suits our taste or is within our palette. If we are really hungry or thirsty we may drop our standards but the goal may have changed; before we were eating for pleasure, but now we may be eating to suppress hunger. But those with a mission and vision may still choose the healthy option. But at no point are you thinking about the immediate result or consequence – the poo. Because it’s not in your hands.
We are in control of limited things in our lives mainly the things that we input; our intentions, our efforts, our physical investments, and the resources that we use which we are aware of and have access to. Then we enter the process, the realm of uncertainties which yield results, which could be what we expect, or not be what we expect and this is absolutely fine. If you don’t yield our expectations, do we dwell on results or do we ask what can be done to yield better ones? It’s the latter. How do I avoid floating poo? Eat less fatty foods. At no point do I lament over floating poo.
And yet how many people are doing just that, lamenting, depressing, grieving over what they didn’t expect. Yes, you failed the exam. Yes, s/he dumped you. Yes, your habits have turned to addictions and have caught up with you. Yes, you are discriminated against and there is no support. Yes to all the facts of your reality and now that you have spelt them out, what do you want to do? Do you want to lament and stay stagnant, or worse – become comfortable with lamenting that becomes the goal … or…. would you like to decide a new path? A new path means giving yourself the opportunity to decide new inputs. It means that accepting who we are as we are, accepting our world as it is and letting them be while deciding on a new path, or deciding on a slight change in strategy. It also means that it is ok to love yourself, as you are, with faults and sins, and be given the opportunity to change your input. It is an opportunity to eat something new, try something different, to increase the range of your palette and to experience a new output. But it would be absolutely stupid to eat the same, bad thing and expect a different poo. Eating E. Coli will always give you diarrhoea.
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