Being present

Okay so I haven't posted in a while. I guess summer days are so beautiful, I don't want to spend them inside on a computer. And I have been ... happy. Good. Content lately. So not so much to say I guess. Except grateful. A friend of mine gave me an interesting book to read. Called The New World or something. It's a spiritual book. It talks about how the only road to happiness is being present. And also talks about how the ego gets in the way of that. I've been wrestling with that a bit. It's hard to not have an ego. We all do. I guess we never really get away from that. But the key, which he advocates, is acceptance. It's like a zen paradox... the striving to be happy just creates unhappiness. Just be. Here. Now. Accept what is happening. Here. Now. Then, you aren't fighting the moment. And then, you can remove the blocks to happiness. You can make your peace with the present. I think I'm getting better at that. Of course, that got put to the test at the DMV yesterday and so, guess what? I'm not totally there. My ego had a fit when this dude jumped the line. So did everyone else's ego. So the DMV COLLECTIVE ego was not pleased. I can actually find that funny now. Yesterday, not so much. But the good news is I'm all sorted out now, and it was really pretty good, in and out in about 45 min. And I'm a solid citizen now... with all my papers in order. :-)