I have received this poem below through a social media forward.
And I think I needed to read it today.
It put many things in perspective.
You see, there have been some small and inexpensive things missing at home . We have two house helpers And I was not sure who is the culprit.
They have been with us for a while and I have senior parents who live at home so I was letting it go and keep calm, because it was easier as it was causing a lot of unnecessary confusion and doubt.
In the meantime two months ago I replaced one of them. And I had felt a sense of relief somehow. And today the other is about to go on leave for the customary annual holiday. It will mean a lot of work for me personally until I find a helper. Yet I have been feeling positive that better is happening and all is for a good reason. Sometimes we grin and bear for the fear of changing statesquo…
While I cannot get my lost things as I have no proof, I think I needed a calm perspective to help me find me a way…
While I do believe that we must take action on that which is within our control , these words touched a chord in me..
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
Because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
— Rumi
Savvy Raj 
January 18, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Rumi speaks the truth.
Thank you for sharing🙏
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January 18, 2025 at 11:49 pm
Indeed Dear Savvy In Every Turn Life
Takes DarK Thru LiGHT We May
Change The Narrative
of the Story
And Reframe
Our Soul for a Life
Lesson to Share instead of Take away
For Instance Recently i took Our Fairly New
SUV in For Complimentary Maintenance Covered
for the First Two Years of Owning the Vehicle Plus
Some Recalls that Needed to be Taken Care of too
One of the Maintenance Items Changing the Rear
Differential Fluid Out Wasn’t Covered So the Fee
Would be 119 Dollars as Agreed upon with the
Service Advisor Upon Arriving for Repair
Unfortunately they Lost a Tool in the
Engine Compartment that took
45 More Minutes to Recover
It was no Problem when
the Service Advisor
Advised Us there
Relaxing Sitting
in the Waiting Area of
the Honda Service Area
Drinking the Free Chocolate
They Offer Writing Free Verse
on my Laptop same as i Would Do at Home
The Car is Very Comfortable getting Hybrid
Gas Mileage over 40 Miles Per Gallon a Pleasure
to Drive Around 40 Minutes to get to the Dealership….
Finally Going Up to Pay i Reminded the Service Advisor
of the Charge We Needed to Pay and He said Never Mind
He Would take Care of it, it seemed to me then to Compensate
Us for Our
Additional
Time Spent Waiting
And then He said he’d
Have to E-mail the Service
Record as the Computer was down…
Meanwhile the rest of the Day i Spread
Good News about How Great the Customer
Service was at that Dealership Yet He didn’t
Send the Record by Email as Promised and i reminded
Him Again by Voice Mail and then He said He didn’t Understand
the Voice Mail and Promised to Do it again Still Not Doing it Again
Then i Called the
Service Manager
With No Return
Call eventually
Calling again
getting one of
His Helpers to
get the Note directly
to him finally receiving
The Record of Service by E-Mail…
Oh Lord and then to Find the Service
Was Not Done According to the Record
Very Disappointing indeed as it Appears
That They Didn’t Do What i Asked and
Tried to Make it Appear as if they Did…
It would Have been no Problem to
Come back and i Surely Would
Have Been Very Forgiving for
The Mistake Yet of Course
Some Customers get
Extremely Irate…
Yet i am Not going to
Waste any Life being Irate…
All i Have to Do Now is get
Someone to Verify that they
Didn’t do the Service so i Can
Come in again to get it done
(i’ve Contacted Them Twice
Still Waiting For A Reply Now)
i’ve Already Spent about as Much
Time on Trying to Find Out as it will
take to get the Service Done again
Yet for me i See it As A Practice of Patience
That i Will Use in the Future For Every Other
Human Being
i Come into
Contact With
Same as all of the
Other Experiences as
i continue to Evolve as
A Peaceful Loving Human Being….
So In other Words Every Person in
Every Mistake From that Dealership
Has Only Done my Soul Deep Down A Greatest
Favor
Lifting me Up
Indeed it All Depends
on the Narrative of the
Story of Existence We
Create and the Frame of
Our Soul Still to Breathe in Essence mY FRiEnD…
Yet that’s Not all As Your Story About the Helpers in
Your Home Stealing Some of Your Small and Inexpensive stuff
Reminded me about another Story of ‘Helpers’ Yet in this Case
African American Women Who Worked in my Paternal Grandmother’s
Nursery School For Children
As they Did the Laundry and
Cooking Yet She Screamed at
Them Day in Day Out Treating
Them Less than Human and Sadly
That Side of the Family Was Horribly
Prejudiced Against People Who Did Not
Look and Act Like them and They Still Are
And While it is one of the Most Disgusting
Parts of Human Nature i’ve Ever Witnessed
it was and still is an Integral Part of Most of that
Side of the Family Existing Yet the Way i’ve Come to
Narrate The Story
of this Part of
my Existence
Is How Fortunate
i Was at Age 3 that
my Father Left my Mother
Who Only Wanted to Stay Home
With Her Children as His Sole (Soul) Mission
in Life was to Become Rich With Things So He Found
A Woman With A Job For Pay and Spent the Last 11 Years
Of His Life in Retirement Buying 500 Dollars Worth of Lottery Tickets
(After 46 Years in Law
Enforcement)
to Achieve His
Version of His
American Dream…
(It Never came to be)
Meanwhile Much Earlier
Decades Earlier my Paternal
Grandmother Related that Their
House Burned Down and it Taught
Them What Was Really Valuable in Life
‘Each Other’
Yet i’ve Come to
See Each Other is Not
Enough All Others Will Always
Be More to Learn to LoVE iN Peace
And Yes How Blessed i Was that my
Father Left at Three For i Could Have
Been Raised With the Same Disgusting
Frame of
Soul
in Story
of Existence
iN Being Then Now
Yet On the Other Hand
To Fulfill my Larger Frame
Of Soul my Venn Diagram
of Others Must Include
Mercy for Those Who
Were Raised With
Ignorance of
Love For
Everyone
No Matter What…
It’s a Mountain i Still
Climb Each and Every
Day That i Risk Falling
off of too For this Human Condition
That is Always one of Change a Work
of Art More to Master Peace Yet Only Master
Piece
With Still
Room for
Souls to Evolve More
And Sadly Yes Potentially
Devolve too…
“It it is to
be it is
up to me”
Taking
Full Responsibility..:)
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