Friday Night

Here I sit, another Friday night.  Which is a statement that could indeed indicate the beginning of a great unburdening of a sense of quiet despair and boredom with the state of things.

Truthfully though, I don't feel that way at all.  I sat back and looked back at this blog, and thought about it as a meditation on my attitude to life and how it has changed in the last 4 or 5 years, or however long it has been since I decided to blog.  Tonight I realised with some quiet profundity that in this life I have spent a lot of time choosing to see the world as being against me, when in fact the opposite may very well have in fact been the true state of affairs, and it may have been me against the world, projecting all my anger and bitterness and cynicism onto all that I saw.

I read an interesting piece in Robert Wilkinson's generally excellent astrology blog here where he speaks about changing our perspective and seeing our lives unfold from the divine point of view, where the only blocks to our growth and progress as spiritual beings is the things we place in our own way via our negative attitudes and thinking.  Instead we should look to cultivate an attitude of mindfulness, gratitude, and good will to all things and beings.  When we start to look at the world differently, we may start to see that the world looks at us differently.