The older you get, the more you choose calm over chaos and distance over disrespect. Drama becomes intolerable to you and your peace becomes your ultimate priority. You start surrounding yourself with people who are good for your mental health, heart and soul.
Until someone can adequately recognize and express their own misgivings, it is needlessly challenging to attempt addressing them.
Everyone’s mood is their own responsibility. That’s the bottom line. Children blame their moods on others. Adults are aware of their moods and their causes. And a wise person knows how to free their moods from themselves. Anger can be felt without targeting someone, sadness can be felt without blaming someone, etc.
Don’t mistake this to mean we don’t need to be kind and considerate.
Kindness is a significant practice for a number of reasons but don’t expect it to change the mood of others. You may be kind and they may still be a dick in return. Kindness is not a thing some people deserve and others don’t; it is a basic recognition of non-separation between all beings.
“Around us, life bursts with miracles–a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life’s daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.”
Once, a long time ago, there was a wise Zen master. People from far and near would seek his counsel and ask for his wisdom. Many would come and ask him to teach them, enlighten them in the way of Zen. He seldom turned any away.
One day an important man, a man used to command and obedience came to visit the master. “I have come today to ask you to teach me about Zen. Open my mind to enlightenment.” The tone of the important man’s voice was one used to getting his own way.
The Zen master smiled and said that they should discuss the matter over a cup of tea. When the tea was served the master poured his visitor a cup. He poured and he poured and the tea rose to the rim and began to spill over the table and finally onto the robes of the wealthy man. Finally the visitor shouted, “Enough. You are spilling the tea all over. Can’t you see the cup is full?”
The master stopped pouring and smiled at his guest. “You are like this tea cup, so full that nothing more can be added. Come back to me when the cup is empty. Come back to me with an empty mind.”
Take a sip of this, I’m an itty bitty Cuphead
One sentence in, I’ve already made a pun, yep
Picking up steam, wonder why they call me hothead
Struck a deal with the devil, now I’m rackin’ up debt
Yes I made a dumb bet, no need to get upset
I’m a cup of trouble, have you seen my mugshot yet?
Step in front of my finger gun, and you drop dead
Wallop all your bosses, leave ‘em all jobless
They’ll never stop me from runnin’ like a faucet
I’m a full cup, don’t you ever try to top it
You can never touch this, but you can kick the bucket
I’m meant to be drunk from, but not to be trusted
Heads up, hit the deck, Mugman
You don’t really wanna get your head busted
I’m a dirty dish, who needs a rough scrubbin’
After doing these devilish deeds, God damn!
I’ll stop this train even if it’s haunted
“Where’s my ship?” Sorry just sunk it
Hopping like a frog, duck and dodge your punches
Won’t shed a single tear when I’m choppin’ onions
Spent all your breath huffin’ and puffin’
Just to get dumped on by a cup for nothin’
Unless all you wanna end up dead
You do not mess with a Cuphead, 'nuff said
Do not mess with a Cuphead, 'nuff said
Do not mess with a Cuphead, 'nuff said
Do not mess with a Cuphead, 'nuff said
Do not mess with a Cuphead, 'nuff said
You’ll never catch me cryin’ over milk I spilled
My head ain’t empty, but who knows with what it’s filled?
I took the devilish gamble
Nothing that a Cuphead couldn’t handle
And now it’s time to foot the bibbadibibitty-bill
Any line that you happen to draw
Is a line I’ll be stepping across
Trapped in a world lacking any natural laws
Have you had your coffee yet? 'Cause I’m off of the walls
My demons need some exorcise
A little caffeine oughta get 'em energized
Will we ever get to heaven when we die?
Can’t get any worse, we already bet our lives
Forget fairy tales, they’re fizzin’ out
I’d like to pick a fight with that prick, Micky Mouse
I’ll kick his ass then I’ll knock Walt Disney out
I’ll leave 'em with a taste of toxic in their mouth (no!)
My hand’s been dealt, it’s a bad draw though
I’ll go all in when the rest all fold
Look’s like I’m on the last straw so
Better tell the devil th-that th-that’s all folks!
Come see what we been brewin’
Something to keep ya movin’
Must be the beat I’m boomin’
Hit me with that funky music
How do we keep on groovin’?
Once could say we been juicin’
Beepin’ boopin’, looney toonin’
Time for you to face the music
You’ll never catch me cryin’ over milk I spilled
My head ain’t empty, but who knows with what it’s filled?
I took the devilish gamble
Nothing that a Cuphead couldn’t handle
And now it’s time to foot the bibbadibibitty-bill
I feel like the holy grail
Just hope I don’t go to Hell
If so that won’t go so well
I’ve been bad, but no one tell
I’m much more than just cup
Raise a toast and pick me up
Pour one more and drink it up, but don’t choke
'Cause I’m not the kinda cup you should be chugging from
I’ll get the jump on ya when I run and gun
Working for Lucifer is a ton of fun
“You two, do my bidding” done and done
I’m a jazzy chap who’ll leave you razzle-dazzled
After I whoop and wallop your ass in battle
When I’m stuck up shits creek without a paddle
Just imagine, the glass is half full
You’ll never catch me cryin’ over milk I spilled
My head ain’t empty, but who knows with what it’s filled?
I took the devilish gamble
Nothing that a Cuphead couldn’t handle
And now it’s time to foot the bibbadibibitty-bill
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Timothy Christian Ames / John Warren Gelardi
“Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just be.”
Give up defining yourself—to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
“The purpose of a rose is to be a rose. Your purpose is to be yourself. You don’t have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.”
