Zenitude #8: The Beauty of "So What"

So what does THAT mean?

It means every "so what" in our life is a stepping stone. When we belabor or complain about something, it's pretty easy to follow-up with a "so what." Here's how.

The momma and I were talking after her surgery last May and digging deep into both of our childhood lives -- the good, the bad, the ugly. At one point we both said "so what" with a shrug of our shoulders. Me to her and she to me. So what. It's not a suppression as much as it's an expression. An acknowledgement and a moving on to what's next.

Each experience of our life starts paving, one stepping stone at a time, an intricate, personalized path. The boulders, the bad shit that happens to us in our path -- so what. If the world was butterflies, roses and sweet-smelling, we wouldn't have third-world countries and chldren dying due to poverty and hunger.

Some of us came from really destructive places, perhaps significant abuse, where our spirit was shattered, we felt like nothing and that we didn't belong. Some of us came from tremendously charmed places where our spirit was uplifted, we felt special and the world was centered around us. Each of these places receives a standing "so what." Why? Because "puffs of opportunity" that whisper to us don't take into account those things. In essence, they say "so what." No one is immune from a puff of opportunity. But, shattered or charmed, if we continue to focus on the calamity of our life or continue to feel entitlement because of our life, we'll miss the whisper. Don't miss the whisper. Don't miss your puff of opportunity.

Zenitude for today:

Find the beauty and strength of "so what."