The Sky Was Falling But I Laughed My Head Off

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Dear Chicken Little,

A funny thing happened to me yesterday.  I’m sure some version of this has happened to you too.  It was a Chicken Little moment when everything was falling down.

I approached my front door with three bags of groceries, my shoulder purse, water bottle and house keys; my mail was tucked under my chin.  I got the storm door open a slit with my only available finger then hooked my foot in and shouldered it wider while fumbling for the right key which I, of course, tried upside down.  

My purse strap threatened to slip off so I hunched that shoulder up while pressing my purse between my elbow and hip just in case, causing me to lose hold of my water bottle; it started to fall.  I tried to catch it against the door with a grocery bag; this knocked the water’s lid off.  It soaked the grocery bag before clanging down the steps.

The now soggy-bottomed grocery sack gave way and I desperately flailed about trying to save the eggs, managing to smack them down instead, covering my shoes with eggy goo into which my keys fell.  The other grocery bags, my mail and purse shortly followed.  Stunned 😳 and dismayed, I stood back empty-handed and speechless  for a shocked moment before busting out in gales of laughter.  

Why hadn’t I just put an item or two down on the bench next to the door before opening it?  That can’t be rationally explained can it?  My mind fixated on not needing to set things down and I blindly went to improbably ridiculous lengths to accomplish that, with disastrous results.

Life is so naturally instructive, isn’t it?  It’s always a metaphor but I’m not one to take things so far as to wail with a new-agey twang, “Why did this happen to me?  What am I meant to learn?”  The answer to those is obvious and there’s no need to wag a schoolmarm finger at myself as though I’m a dunce student needing a very remedial lesson from the universe.  That’s not why this happened.

It happened because the mind can fixate oddly.  That’s human.  It happens to everyone, often.   Another time, in such an instance, I might utter a few choice expletives in irritation or groan loudly in frustration.  This time I laughed, catching the metaphor: it’s often good to just put things down.  

That laugh was an instinctive act of surrender.  And with that surrender, the disaster ended instead of continuing into self-recrimination, frustration at the mess, the unpleasantness  of the clean-up, regretting the cost of the ruined groceries.  That part of the disaster didn’t happen because of the laugh, the surrendering.  Laughing my head off was a good response for this situation.

When the sky is falling and we’re straining to hold it up where it belongs, there’s the choice to surrender that task at any point.  If we’re lucky enough to remember that – and luckier still to manage it – things ease up.  It may or may not be in time to save the eggs and we still have to clean up the mess, but something is greatly eased, isn’t it?

Sometimes hind-sight helps and I remember to set the groceries down on the bench instead – surrendering can be prevention.  If not, surrender at any point can still save the day, get us through, change the current, shift the frequency.  

In fact, that laugh probably shifted all kinds of things that benefit from a little shake shifting.  My body liked the laughing chemistry a whole lot better that the cussing kind.  It felt lively and refreshed.

Life is wonderfully repetitive and helpful in this way.  This is good because it can get pretty forgetful down here on earth.  We need these blessed reminders sometimes to remember what it’s like to be human and recall the small things that help it go smoother.

We aren’t graded on these moments, they aren’t tests.  No one is keeping tabs.  So we can lighten up about that.  We aren’t meant to strive for a life free of all this human stuff, so we can forget about that too.  What a relief.

And we can laugh our head off or bumble or grumble through, which ever happens first.  Lots of stuff comes down the river, some of it’s great, some smacks us in the head.  Sometimes it’s easy to laugh our head off, other times it surprisingly hard to set it down.  Life creates that spiritual practice for us.

There’s really no pressure, however, to get it right.  It’s all just flow.  I can be grateful for that.

I’m still laughing about the one today… hope you had a laugh with me.
X💜Mayet MaHulili Leilani
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