"Life is what happens when you are making other plans." John Lennon
Perhaps you've seen the movie The Accidental Tourist. It's a story about an emotionally wounded man who shuts down his heart after losing a child. Although he is a famous author, Macon (played in the film by the amazing William Hurt) is lonely and looking for love. He meets a crazy lady who, with her son, invites him to come back to the world of the living. At first he personifies resistance, but after a while it dawns on him that she is not only not a threat, but is his salvation.
I used to get annoyed when I would get pulled off track on something I was going - until it dawned on me that those distractions were the best and most helpful part of my day.
Sure, sometimes we have to concentrate on something. I do database design and work with multiple fields, rules, scripts and tables - all of which have to work together to create an effective unit. But sometimes, taking a break, by choice or circumstance, causes me to rethink and more often than not, revise things. Not a bad deal. So, I can say that sometimes the best parts of my day are the interruptions.
When somethings comes up that is unavoidable, and we are interrupted from our plan, we can be pissed, annoyed or cranky (all three are easy for me to manifest at the drop of a hat), or we can ask to find the gift in it. Consider the possibility that the person or circumstance has been sent or created to serve us in some way. Maybe we're being asked to open our heart more, or take a stronger stand for something we believe in, or take a new direction ultimately more meaningful than the one we're currently heading in. These aren't accidents, only opportunities to dance in a bigger Universe.
Today I am willing to allow the Universe's plan to substitute for my own. I am committed to finding the jewel in every encounter, relationship, and experience.
The Etymological Dictionary defines an iconoclast is a “breaker or destroyer of images” from the Late Greek word eikonoklastes. Later, an iconoclast was viewed as “one who attacks orthodox beliefs or institutions.” Today, iconoclasts like perceive things differently than other people - or maybe we just like to be annoying. Either way. This difference in perception plays out in our ideas, worldview and metaphysics - and in how we manage our fears and shadow self. It works well for me.
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