How Does Your Life Matter Anyway?!?!?

Do you see life on the macro, or big picture level, or do you see it on the micro, or are you just focused on yourself? I don't believe there is a right or wrong way to view life. Probably most of us toggle back and forth between macro and micro all the time.  And some of us have a tendency to start from one or the other on a regular basis.  I believe knowing how we see the world helps us to understand ourselves much better.

For example, I'm a macro person.  I'm the person you want by your side to help you figure out the big picture for your life, your family, your company.  I can "see" the potential for how things can be whether it's personal growth or design.  This is a wonderful talent and very useful for many when I've cleaned up the strings of my ego that can become hard and brittle influencing the tint and texture of the big picture. 

One of the clues that I have some "cleaning" (see http://www.hooponopono.org/) of my ego and thought process is when I take the big picture and see every scenario as a horrible outcome just waiting to happen.  

Take a conversation that I had yesterday evening after the sun had set when my husband and were enjoying the crisp night air and the return of our screech owl to its house on the Cottonwood Tree.  I had been depressed, afraid and feeling overwhelmed from a conversation that I had with a good friend about the weather being warmer, the animals and insects being all akimbo and the resulting pregnancies and pending births way earlier in the year than usual as a result. So I asked my very practical, engineer-minded, down-to-Earth husband what he felt his life was about? He gave a very nuts and bolts response about living as best we can each day and enjoying each day as it unfolds, and also that he did not feel like he had any great talent or strength to help out the world beyond what he was already doing nor would his life have an impact on the planet now or after he is gone and that if anyone did remember him after he had died, no one would 50 or 100 years later. He then asked me why I was asking him this and I explained my thoughts of the past week about global warming, etc.

This type of response from him used to piss me off so much during our first years together 25 years ago, but today I know who he is deep inside and who I am much better. And I realized that I was using my preference to see things on a macro level, that are germane and very important to us all, to the point of catastrophic proportions to take the focus off of what was really making me squirm which related to an important family event happening later this month.

In the core of my center I believe the most important thing for me (and you) is for us to live our lives as well as we can each day. Period. End of story.  If this is all there is, this being the day as we see it in front of us right now, then it's important for me to be kind where I can, clean up my part of the street (figuratively, emotionally, spiritually) and enjoy what I can when I can.  I also believe that each of us has a special nugget of exquisiteness to share that only we have. In all the 8 billion people on planet Earth only you have your nugget and only I have my nugget.  When we get centered into ourselves and with the great magnificence of the unknown (I call this "God" but you can call this whatever is right for you) our nugget knows how to unfold and we know how to allow it.  

In other words, if my nugget is related to doing something for the world on a grand scale, then in my center of centers I will know this and trust the directions are locked away in a zip file just waiting for me to say, "yes". And if my nugget is one that focuses on just being the best at being "Lynn" as I can be so that I can spark light into whomever I come into contact with spreading love and hope, well than that is just as important.  

I wonder if we might have more than one nugget like a bowl of Snap, Crackle and Pop, but I suppose as we allow ourselves to "become" we will understand the nuggets as they surface.  

Yes Virginia, your life is very important.