I know what you mean--yet, I take the opportunity to inject my understanding of spiritual "truth" here--not even Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s higher power knew how all this would turn out when DMY and the other souls now spread across the globe
were planning, plotting, arguing about and negotiating our lesson plan improv-scripts, before submitting them to the executive producers for approval and inevitable critique and send-back-downs to the writers' room for rewrites:
"I prefer my term — “Lifecycle Improv Scripts”
I view the Lifecycle Improv Scripts as Larry David’s show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, on steroids — imagine 100 writers drafting a lifetime worth of improvisational scripts and the negotiations and debates as to who gets to play what roles in each other’s lives…White Feather wrote a brilliant short piece on this, which I cannot find in his vast portfolio. I hope he sees this story and provides us with the link. [Edit — I haven’t found that story yet, but I happened upon this one about the ontological nature of time as it relates to “past lives.”]
I love the irony of this oft-quoted and misunderstood saying:
“Man Plans, and God Laughs.”
This statement is used to diminish the role that free-will has upon our lives — that we cannot defeat the universe’s scripts. The irony is that while our higher powers have to approve our scripts/outlines, we wrote them. I wonder what goes on in the Executive Producer’s lounge as Zoroaster and Vishnu and Shiva and Rama and Kali and Kama and the rest of the heads of our tribes negotiate the interplay of their charges’ life spans.
I think Steinbeck said it better in Of Mice and Men,
“The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray”
which to give credit where credit is due, which is more than I can say for the esteemed Eckhart Tolle and others who profit off the ideas of others [2], John paraphrased from Robert Burns’ poem, To a Mouse.”
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