What if it is really true that everything that happens, regardless of what it looks like to you or looks like to the whole world, is the right thing to happen? No matter how you are unable to see it, no matter how dire it all may look to you, there is truly good that will come from any and every event you presently protest.
  
Somewhere down the line, there will be unfolding of goodness from it. Sooner or later, good rises from a happening that you presently see as amply tragic.

Life is as you see it. That is, you get wound up or you get settled, depending upon how you perceive what is happening in life. You are the perceiver, and how you perceive makes all the difference in the world.

How you have been fooled. The truth is that souls in the Universe are brightened, and something in life is propelled magnificently in a direction from which great beauty and kindness and wisdom will blossom. Why not take this approach? What do you have to gain, and what do you have to lose?

My favorite expression lately is “Why not?” Why not be happy rather than sad? Why not get over quickly that which disturbs you? Why not be bright light rather than somber dimness? Why not give into higher feelings instead of lesser feelings when you can have and circulate higher feelings? Why not be all you can be instead of a fraction of the Truth of you? Why not be extraordinary rather than ordinary when, by doing so, you bless the world and yourself? Why not take the High Road? Look, anyone can wail and moan and groan. Who says you have to mourn, or that you are better to mourn a longer time rather than shorter? What if you could rebound quickly? Why not?

If you can frown, you can smile. Why not smile?

Why not think of getting on with life in the mode of a good sport? Why not be a good sport instead of a downtrodden figure? If you can sanction misery, why not sanction happiness? You have a whole repertoire at your disposal. Johnny-One-Note has the choice to sing more than one note, or, if he can sing only one note, he can sing a happy one, why not?

Who said that a realist must have a down-turned mouth? Who said that unhappiness is real, and happiness is not?

Must a realist require answers? Must a realist be peremptory? Must he be logical in life and allow life only a prescribed route? Cannot life have many options? Life can be as free as you, why not? Be done with labels and labeling so many events in life as maladies.

This is a talk on not being caught up so much with the ideas that the world-at-large holds up for everyone to follow. Presently suffering abounds in life. Where is it written that you have a ration of suffering and that you have to suffer? You don’t have to take life or death as seriously as you do. The world may say that you are to suffer, yet I tell you with emphasis that you are not to. There is no commandment that you are to suffer as you tend to believe you do.

On the contrary, it is My desire that you are to be happy no matter what befalls and no matter how you perceive it. Live with what the world hands to you. When the past cannot be changed, let it go. Do not begrudge the past. Do not hold anything against life. Rather accept life as it comes. This is what is best to do with the past.

Have the idea that in life, there are no oops. Oops is an idea. It is only an idea that something that happened wasn’t supposed to have happened. Have the idea that something plays out with a greater circumference and significance than you presently see. You don’t have to see it, but you do simply have to keep marching forward as a good soldier in life who keeps marching right along and takes what comes in his gallant stride.