Be good-hearted, not sore-hearted. Be tenderhearted for others and strong-hearted when it comes to your heart. Do not be frazzled. All the hullabaloo of emotions flapping and zapping is not necessary nor is it beneficial. Whatever you have been holding on to, let it go now. Let life be what it is. Do not hasten life forward nor hold it back. Life has a mind of its own. You can keep to your integrity without tears.

You can still be true to yourself and not fight life tooth and nail. Have you been objecting to life? It can be that life is going a route you wouldn’t have invited, and yet how do you presume to know better than life as to what it proffers you this moment? How do you know it’s not a good thing to stop in your tracks or to be pushed or pulled along? Maybe you are being put in shape. Maybe you have been out of shape, and now life is toning you. Maybe it’s just fine what is happening, like it or not.

Perhaps you have often objected to life except for the moments when life concurred with your wishes. It might be good if you could be a little more agreeable to life as it appears. You do not have to be so quick to object. As a matter of fact, life has every right to step forth as it chooses. Do not knock down the doors of life nor block them. Life has its entrance, and its walk across the stage, and then it exits, and a new scene begins.

Life, as it is, is a puzzle to you. You do not order everything that life brings, and yet you cannot always turn down the shipment. Life may seem to wreak havoc, and yet it may be you that is wreaking havoc.

There are parts of life that you just have to take the way they are. Life may be too casual or too formal for you, and yet you cannot always set the dress code. You are always part of your life, and yet you cannot always assemble it as you would like. Life comes with its own construction. You may not like certain constructs, yet you have to meet them half-way. It would seem that you cannot always have life the way you would like, and, so, then, you are to be a good sport. You do not win every game, and sometimes you don’t know what is winning or losing or what is right and what is left or really where you are.

I suggest that you do not look at life as a battlefield but rather as a meeting ground. There is a conference going on with a cast of thousands. You are not the only apple in the bunch. There are others’ lives to consider and what their interests are. At the same time, there is nothing to consider but to move on from where you are and discover where you land next. Maybe you just had a boost.

You are your own person, and everyone else is also his own person, and sometimes the twain do not meet, and sometimes they do, and sometimes it changes around. You can be certain that life in the world is full of change. Its theme is change. The world is not Old Reliable. Yet you can rely on yourself. Through thick and thin, you can be there, and you can come out whole. Life may not come out all roses, and yet you are furthered along on this unforeseeable path to greater compassion in your heart and greater comprehension in your mind. Life has its way with you and moves you ahead. You might as well skip along with it.