Pondering Life Via Cookies

I’ve had an interesting chat with a very old friend of mine.   She posed the age-old question about why bad things happen to good people with an interesting twist.  She pointed out that if, as is told, people are never given more than they can handle in this life, why do some folks have stress induced heart attacks or mental breakdowns?

Not exactly easy answers to find.

A few people in the conversation mentioned perhaps a lack of faith or something was wrong with the people in the first place. 

I took some time and used the wonderful cookie philosophising method to ponder this one.  If you don’t know this wonderfully effective method of promoting deeper thinking,  it involved meditative baking of and consumption of cookies..I prefer chocolate chip myself. 

Anyway, over the cookie mediation I discovered  I have a bit of a different view.  First, I think that we have free choice in what we do, how we react and how we think.  What we choose to do and the way we think will create the life we end up living.  If we chose to focus on the bad, to dwell in negativity instead of looking for opportunity and to overlook the joys we do have we will burden ourselves far more than and deity would ever do.

The other factor I think is the idea that we have to go it alone. I don’t think we were ever meant to travel our journey by ourselves.  Our burdens are meant to be shared with others as are our joys and blessings.  Somewhere along the road too many of us have forgotten this.  I myself have had a hard time living this lesson but lately realized that in our life we sometimes have heavy loads. These must be shared to make them manageable.  Others receive benefits from assisting us and we in turn can share their loads. 

To be clear, I’m talking about carrying these difficulties together, not dumping them on someone.  This must be a two-way street.  You need the benefit of both sides (listening and helping as well as getting support) of that coin to get out of it that which makes your life better.

So ya, I think we can handle anything that comes our way if we have and use our support system; be they friends or family.  I also think that having a grateful theme behind our daily life will make anything easier to handle.

I also think that while doing all of the above sharing the occasional cookie binge also helps! I have support on this theory but the guy may be biased. 

What’s your take on this?