Experience has taught me how wrong many of my initial impressions are. My immediate reactions are usually resistant. I hardly give room for wisdom to guide me. I keep forgetting what I have learned from my favorite authors.

Now, I sometimes laugh at how foolish ,even arrogant, I have been. I have been angry, frustrated, disappointed, frightened etc at situations which I thought were specifically sent to punish me. Why me? Indeed, why me? among the millions, even billions in the universe.

What adds to my resentments is my wrong interpretation of the Law of Attraction. What did I do to merit this? Again, Why me? But it’s not about deserving. It’s a matching of vibrations.

Boorstein wrote: “Remember whatever is happening will change, and what you add to th situation is part of the change. Agonizing makes it worse.”

Laura Day wrote something similar: “Things are what they are. Ruminating won’t change them nor will it provide an insurance policy for avoiding pain in the future.”

Michael Tamura has written the most significant reminder for me: “when crises arise in your life, they aren’t due to something inherently wrong with you. Although you may take them personally, situations in your life don’t happen to you. They just happen and you are involved in them according to the way you respond to [them].”

The above certainly does not allow me to ask: “Why, me?”

Tamura also wrote: “If you are reaching deeper within yourself with compassion, perseverance, and forgiveness as you work toward the goal or victory then you learn and grow. And that makes you capable.”

Another nugget of wisdom from Tamura said: “The more we can disengage our awareness from reactive emotion and reclaim our neutrality, the better we can realign ourselves to our soul energies, awareness and purpose.”