Life as a Theatre . . . Invite your audience carefully.
I blogged about this in 2006 and with all of the recent death of friends and people I have known over the years I thought I would write about this once again. I wanted to share it and see what you are thinking about your own “Theater of Life”.
Friends and friendship play an important part of our everyday life whether we are consciously aware of it or not. It is one of the things you go through life & hopefully as you get older there are those you have around you everyday by choice, those that are there for you without question without the everyday or recent contact but you know they are “in the wings” for you if you needed them.
This was a simple analogy and I do not know where it originally came from or who the author is. The words and concept have me thinking and looking at the different possibilities from my own life as different people have come and gone over the years. With Facebook it makes it even more real as we can now re-connect with those who we have lost contact but were still a part of our ‘early’ life.
I’ll comment more after you read this so think about this concept and see where your own life and mind takes you.
Life as a theatre – invite your audience carefully.
Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from distance. It's amazing what you can accomplished when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships, friendships, fellowships!
Observe the relationships around you.
Pay attention to: Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path for growth up hill and which ones are going down hill?
When you leave certain people, do you feel better or worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you?
The more you seek quality, you will also seek things honorable - the more you seek respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.
You cannot change the people around you...but you can change the people you are around. Ask for wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the front row of your life.
One final thought . . . Everything happens for a reason.
Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
Embrace life and live if fully, we won’t get out alive!
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