I have no idea where the world is supposed to go, how it is to evolve or how to bring more harmony and beauty into a world that is already filled with harmony and beauty, as well as a good dose of suffering and confusion. I do know that the world is changing at a pace that none of us can keep up with and that is the challenge.
Sometimes, I think that the world is changing so quickly that we, on planet earth are in a similar position to the fish that were poised to leave the ocean to walk, or slither onto the land so many millennia ago. This idea made me wonder how the fish of that long ago time prepared for this massive shift in their consciousness and environment.
And so I invited one of those fish into my living room for a chat. I asked the fish, “Fish, how did you prepare for the cataclysm which was to cause you to give up your fins for feet? What did you focus on? How did you improve yourself?”
The fish looked me straight in the eye and said in fish talk that I could understand, “Well, I just was the best fish that I could be.”
And that was that. My fish friend had no further information but I had been given the only directive that has made sense to me as I have been negotiating the dizzying change of the last ten years.
Okay, I get it. I can only be the best Kai that I can be. I must embody what I know in my head. I have to make it part of my flesh and blood. I have to live my truth and walk my talk. I can’t be satisfied with just thinking it. I can’t imagine the future so I have to make my peace with the present that I am living. It may not be much but that is the best that I can do.