Are Life’s Difficulties Getting You Down? Put a Sign on Your Door Gone Fishing

Life’s difficulties are really only as complex, or as simple, as your thinking make them out to be.
Sort of like fishing and although I was never a fisher woman, nor do I fish now, I remember fishing when I was young or being with someone who did.
There were never any assurances that we would catch something, or what we would reel in, or whether our lines would get snagged, or we might lose our fishing poles, or that the weather would hold out.

No matter how your fishing experience might be, your attitude towards the experience has everything to do with how you return home.
You could come back angry and upset, disappointed, hungry, feeling a little green around the gills, or you could return feeling fulfilled by the simple pleasures that surrounded you.
Simple pleasures like the company you were with, or the excitement of catching or watching a child catch his/her first fish, or the solitude within the moments, or the sounds, the peace and beauty of the water and the environment, or the stillness surrounding you, or being filled with anticipation of what the next outing might stir within you.
Either way, how you returned home was your choice. You could blame the conditions, the time of day, the people you were with, the fish or lack of, your rod, the bait, etc, but in the end your mindset and interpretation was yours and yours alone.
Life is no different. When you throw out your line, so to speak you never know what snags you may encounter, or what you will reel in, or how things will be. There aren’t any guarantees, but you do have a choice of simply going with the natural flow of events or fighting against them.
Whichever way things unfold, your attitude towards the person, events, or yourself, has everything to do with how you embrace the occurrences.
You can become snared in your thinking thus making things more complicated than they need to be or you can open your inner eye and ear. Really see and hear beyond the complexities and return to the simplicities that these situations are offering.
Everything that seems tough is really an invitation to embrace the peace within. There is a connectedness within all of us that, if we listen, returns us to love and grace, exactly where we began before our beliefs misconstrued the events.
Take a look around you. Every problem has the promise of possibilities to see and do things differently.
Your thoughts don’t have to be all tangled, they can be free to cast newness and reel in something different.
Simplicity always surrounds you. It can be a whisper in a breeze, a warming through the sun’s rays, the melodies in the rain, the strength in the thunder, the stillness of snow flakes, the calm of blue skies and water, the grounding of the earth and green grass, the freedom of the wings on a bird or the inner dance of leaves, flowers, and trees in a gentle wind.
Make time to step “outside” the complexity into the simplicity; throw out your line because you never know what possibilities are awaiting you.
The Universe is filled experiences that can test the internal waters. These situations remind us that when life seems to present us with complexities, the simplicities are to be noticed. If we take a moment to be still, we never know what might be on the other end.
When life’s difficulties are getting you down, put a sign on your door saying, “Gone Fishing”.