In life, you are looking at the lay of the land. The terrain is laid out for you. Where you go and what you seek is your decision to make. What happens is not altogether up to you. You have some say, but you do not have say over everything that happens in life.
And yet you have wanted to control everything in life. Beloveds, whatever may come, you have to deal with it. Whatever lands at your door, you have something to do. Sometimes you let it in, and sometimes you step aside. You do not have the say. You have the say over where you will go from there, yet you are not the total dispenser of the Universe.
If you find yourself in a landslide, you are in landslide. Where you land probably isn't your choice. Wherever you find yourself, your choice begins. You go on from where you find yourself. Even if you cannot walk, you have choices. You have the choice to despair. Perhaps you have the choice to crawl.
No one likes waking up in a strange place, yet, if that's where you find yourself, the question isn't how, when, why. The question is what do you do now? And if you can do nothing, how, then, will you accept it? How do you move on in your life, or how long do you stay where you are and moan?
You find yourself in a situation that may not be of your making. Certainly not of your making in a deliberate way. Yet conscious or not, you have to decide to go east or west now. Perhaps this is the time to roll with the punches.
If you find yourself in a landslide, it is possible that being in the landslide was a choice you made. Maybe you made the choice long ago. Maybe you will never know. It's hard to believe you would choose to be in a spot you never would want to be in, and, nevertheless, you find yourself there.
Even if you are entirely an innocent victim, your choice is to cry or to get up and start anew.
A seed may not have choice over where it is planted, yet it can choose to grow there and even blossom.
A hat may not ever choose which head it goes on, and yet a hat continues to do what hats do.
Hats serve. Seeds serve. And you serve.
You have will, and choice as to how you will use your will. Do you use your will to protest and fight or do you use your will to move forward?
Do not equate will with stubbornness. Will does not have to hold on to where it has been. Will does not mean getting your own way. Life has already taught you that you don't always get your way.
The thing is that you have to make decisions without knowing what the outcome will be. Somewhere along the way, you may have had the idea that you have to know the results ahead of time. That's where the idea of odds came in. Yet playing the odds doesn't always come out the way you want. Sometimes you go against the odds, and all is as you want or it is not.
Along the way, it is necessary to let go of the idea of winning or losing. Life is not a question of winning or losing. Life is life. And you do not always know when you have won or when you have lost. Frankly, your life is not about either winning or losing. Your life is about being a good sport.