I often find the smallest things to be the most influential when judging life progress.
We've taken a lot of time lately to camp, to go 'off grid' if I may refer to it so simply.
When you lose something, you gain something. Physics says that you cannot remove one thing without replacing it with another.
We remove society, and gain family. Spending 10 hours a day working together and preparing our property, transforming our surroundings, actually is transforming ourselves as well. The little things that cause so many headaches, the million little stressors that we subconsciously allow to pile up on our shoulders in the typical day, don't build up, but fall to the dirt.
Everyday drama evaporates, negativity from others actions disappears, and communication replaces it all. The one thing this world needs is open ended, ego free communication.
Communicate about love, fear, anger, anticipation... The what next, not the what ifs.
I've found an amazing thing out about myself, by communicating. Usually they say listen to learn, but do you ever consider that you also need to listen to yourself?
My mother made a comment to my wife the other day, about how I now laugh and smile. It hadn't been as apparent to me before as it had been right then, the effects of communication and an amazing family.
I'm no longer the person I once had been, hiding behind anger at myself for who I was, and who I was not. I'm no longer the person looking for the fight, looking for the argument, finding the reason to stay away from everyone, even myself.
I am Robert. I am an awesome husband to an amazing wife, a dad to some amazing children, and a relation to my family.
I have opinions, I can accept that you do as well. I accept that your opinions are based on you, your thoughts, and your beliefs and expectations. I expect the same consideration, however I understand the lesser person is incapable of such a thought process.
I firmly believe, when you push away the negativity, the pettiness of those who only truly matter as much as they believe, to themselves, that you have no chance but to let life slip in.
Without laughter, there's no love, without love there's no life. I've come to find out that the best way to appreciate life, is to simplify it.
