SQUIRRELS

One of the primary keys to success is the ability to develop a mind set that cherishes life. However you start out ...with good or bad intentions, you will find that life has a way of taking you on a journey in which your primary goal is to stay the course with true values and worth while goals. Sometimes this can be hard, truth be told it's always hard when life isn't as easy as it could be, but life as a struggle is just as addictive as life running as smooth as cream. Don't feel guilty life doesn't go your way, don't think you don't deserve success and maybe you're being paid back for a previous life's misdeeds or being a 'bad person' whatever determines that or whoever determined the perimeters of what a good person really is. Let's take squirrels for example. I was in Hyde park the other day with Asta watching squirrels, one of which decided to climb up her leg all the way to her shoulder and then down the other side. Beautiful little creatures, but some people regard them as tree rats. Now I don't actually know what's wrong with a rat anyway as I've known a few very friendly pet one's in my time, but people do have the habit of deciding something is good or bad with a compass that's really very damaged. Everything in this world we live in is connected, the trees the flowers and the animals all have a hidden connection we don't understand, yet we humans have just the same connection but try to separate ourselves from it, from each other...from the squirrels. It's a strange behaviour but one that is fostered by nationalism , belief , race politics  and sex. With all the division between people its easy to understand why their is so much discord  in the world. Squirrels don't actually have wars, they don't murder or abuse, but like all animals they are territorial and get ratty with each other. These are basic instincts...and the more you succumb to your basic instincts the more you will be just like a squirrel..except not so furry. Instincts like hate, jealousy, envy, greed amongst others pull you down, if you value life and the connection between all things you will find these instincts loose their power, it's only when faced with someone else who may not have the good values you aspire to in mind, that you can be dragged back down the evolutionary step ladder again. Life is like a game of snakes and ladders, and just like on the board the closer you get to the finishing point of true understanding the bigger the snake becomes to make you fall the furthest back to the beginning. So take heart, we are all on the same page going in the same direction one way or another, so try to look at your fellow man as either in front of you or behind you on the journey of life, but always one way or another in exactly the same place of equality.