CHANGE - 021215

Earlier this year, i wrote on the FaceBook about how, after reading the following quote from one of my fave American Buddhists Pema Chodron,  i would sit with her quote (whilst practicing my various neuroses) and "await further instructions:"
  
"The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom."

Well, Ladeez n Gentlemenz, The Ritz Report is proud to...um..."Report" that I have received those further instructions!  And i am going to reveal those instructions right here, right now.

As follows:

#impermanence

as in, "to change"

as in, "nothing lasts forever"

as in, "this, too, shall pass"

as in, "to swing"
(wait...that last one is a line from my favorite all-time movie, "Raising Arizona".  sorry.  :o)

Now, I know this might seem rather fundamental to some folks.  But for a person such as myself, who as James Joyce famously wrote, has "lived a short distance from her body" most of her life, the realization that what i seem to "want" (change) and what just happens, regardless of how i do or do not decide to meddle, ARE THE SAME GODDAMN THING is nothing short of a miracle! Holy Jeebus!  Eureka!

Think about the last time you can remember thinking, saying, or writing "I want this thing to change and that thing to change...."   Well, trust me, have some patience and give it some time and both this thing and that thing will indeed have changed.

Will the change be how you envisioned it?  Will it be the change you "wanted?"  Maybe it will, maybe it won't.  My point is this: "wanting" something that is clearly already there, in some form or another, seems absolutely ludicrous to me, a COMPLETE waste of my precious time.

Which, by the way, is now worth a whopping $108 per hour at the moment, yet I still manage to be broke.

Stay tuned for my 2014 year-end financial write-up, titled:

 

"But I made $80,000 last year...how the F@CK could I be $2K broker than I was last January???"

which, of course, is a follow-up to my earlier blog titled "But I make $100 per hour...how the F@CK can I be broke?"

Gather 'round children...Economics 101...klass iz IN. and it 'aint fizziks. :o)

xo
ritz