The Wasp and the Ohm

How many times have you found yourself grounded, centered, relaxed, only to be swatting at something buzzing around your head?

Today, Day 3 of my 'Staycation' I was alone (sort of) on the deck. Thinking, mediating, praying. This vacation is long overdue so it has taken 3 days to get relaxed. Just when I feel my shoulders dropping to where they are meant to be, and my breath start to slow and my thoughts start to wander, a wasp starts buzzing around my head.

At first I attempt to ignore it. It flies away and then circles back almost Kamikaze-like toward my face. I live with it for a minute or two more and then finally, completely distracted, I go inside.

Isn't life like that.....fairly often? We finally get ourselves relaxed, happy, enjoying the moment and someone or something swoops in changing the whole scene and creating a bit of chaos. With the wasp, it creates fear, frustration, uncertainty, and aggravation. The same holds true for people and circumstances in our lives. They come buzzing mostly out of fear, frustration, uncertainty, and aggravation.

I choose to believe that the wasp has no true malicious intent. It is simply unsure of us and our motive and is protecting itself and it's territory. After all, I didn't interpret the buzzing sound to be saying, "Stop trying to relax you evil human. I'll show you relax.... buzzzz" with stinger ready to impart hurt and damage.

I guess I'll choose to believe that most humans don't have a malicious intent when they knock us off center. Likely, they are also trying to protect themselves and their territories.

What if we all stopped buzzing for a moment and just stopped.....

Stopped to listen, read, hear and understand. Not to hear our words. Words are confusing and leave way too much to interpretation. What if we stopped to listen to each others heart? Our breath? Our feelings?

What if always assumed goodwill and never malicious intent? Sure, once in awhile we'd get hurt and disappointed. But mostly wouldn't we match the feeling of tensions releasing, slow and steady breathing and finally feeling relaxed?

Maybe we wouldn't feel the need to keep our own stinger sharpened or to have our fly swatter handy for whatever buzzed in our ears.