Engaged

Engaged:

that I am fully engaged with the world, concerned by outcomes that affect the welfare of others, caring for their well-being, and wishing to address issues of impact and importance that shape our lives together. My concern comes naturally, arising no different than insights and realizations that free me from beliefs of how the world should be. It's a paradox of sorts, and yet I am deeply comfortable with my position, engaged, caring for the sake of myself and others, and somehow too there's a sense that things are far beyond my own involvement and control, a play of activities cosmic in their proportions and that I'm simply an aspect of how it all currently unfolds. 

engaged, because that's how life is, and it couldn't possibly be any other way.

at least for right now.

of course things may one day seem quite different to me, that my best wishes for the sake of the world might somehow be altered in their vision. I have no idea how my life will unfold and this includes whatever arises in my field of interest. I am open to the mystery. But nothing ever removes me from engagement, being fully an aspect of the world, belonging to its current flow. I am part of it all, everything, and there's no real choice involved in this appearance. 

I am engaged because of this belonging. 

it's simply how things are.

and couldn't possibly be any other way.

at least in the appearance of this moment. 

and right now...

I find myself engaged.

~

Peace, Eric