A Few Remarks Pertaining to Existence At Large

My first thought is that life is ultimately good, and by a wide margin. No, truly it is! Some moments make this goodness apparent, and one of the happiest events occurs when you enjoy several such moments in rapid succession:

"Imagine living with three Emma's." "They'd all be like, egajklawimcopv!" 
"Patron!" 
"Confession, I..." "Let's just agree that everything said over Rolo cookies stays with Rolo cookies."
"You just don't understand FAME."
"Are you talking about Mistake Suit #1 or Mistake Suit #2?" 
"He went to the edge of the precipice and walked along it, buuuuuuuut he fell off - you're not supposed to do that." "WOW." "Hey, the suit was an unjustifiable risk! People may have been hurt for all we know!"

(Those were all excerpts from Friday's fantastic ongoing dialogue; it was a marvelous day.)

Another thought: everyone in your life serves a purpose. 

Examples: what would I do without my unconventionally (and sometimes brutally) honest friend? She has lent much to my awareness and has helped me become more patient and forgiving, when before I was much too sensitive far too much of the time. What would I do without my friend who loves foreign men and a good cookie as much as I do? She talks to me freely and openly on many topics people avoid or don't even consider, and she emphasizes to me the significance of friendship. The friends who burst into song with me give me great pleasure! I have friends who permit me to drive them home because they know that I don't like driving alone, and I have friends who are actually happy to go see terrible movies with me and they enjoy them as much as I do. I have friends who have moved and whose absence in my daily life highlights how powerful relationships can be. Then there are those people who stumble into your life only for a short amount of time, blubber something seemingly disjointed, and then leave, and it is not until later when you are older, more experienced, smarter, more thoughtful, etc, that you can recognize what they added to your life in the moments they came into contact with it, and you only then can comprehend the impact they had on you.

There are no coincidences: people come and go only when it is called for, weather only favors or confounds when the favor or confounding serves a purpose, and trains, planes, and automobiles are only delayed or hurried along when that is the occurrence that must occur. The relocation of the Srivastavas, who are practically family to me, to Australia has been a dominating trial in my life since June. Their absence has made me incredibly lonely these past few months (who else am I to play Settlers with?:), especially when coupled with other prevailing circumstances, and I know that the move has been a source of both great pleasure and hardship for them and that it will ultimately benefit us all, so think: what lessons are being learned? Am I learning to reach out to others and initiate new friendships? You bet. I've found it absolutely necessary, and it has been very rewarding. So even in the midst of what seem to be taxing obstacles shuffled at random into our lives, be assured that is not chaos that reigns, but reason and order, and that no one is subject to things that do not apply to them. And yeah, that's all for now. I lahve you all.

Stealing poignantly beautiful photos of Ethan, Bretta, and Isabelle from Raj (Srivastava). Awww yeeeah.

In conclusion, Carl Jung said, "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order," so "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." That's Deepak Chopra's followup. :)

Adios amigos, 
Scouty Pout