This is an excerpt from my book, Life Lessons Learned From Fairy Tales, available on Amazon.
The story of Belle, the heroine of Beauty and the Beast, teaches the following tenet:
“Living is simple.
Loving is simple.
Laughing is simple.
Winning is also very simple, but living your life in a simple way is difficult.”
If you feel that your life generates too much drama, it may be time to step back and determine the reasons why this atmosphere exists. Establish if you're at the center of the drama, or if you are surrounding yourself with others who only thrive when they have difficulties about which to complain.
If it’s the latter, it may be time to clean house.
When you associate with positive people who lead uncluttered lives, their energy can spill onto you. Often, these are people who have experienced difficult times. As they coped with their situations, they learned to cherish what is most important in life, which is love.
Woody Hayes said, “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
I’m sure that some of you are ready to say, “I’m clean enough!” However, life IS and will be forever messy. There will always be something making us “dirty” or pulling on us – although, not necessarily in a bad way, even if it does come with some complications.
Life is learning how to successfully maneuver your way through the dirty puddles and then taking full advantage of the momentary respites from difficulties whenever they are presented. A good way to clear your life of convoluted complications is to discover the underlying issue and then look for a simple solution to resolve it.
Alan Cohen suggests you look back at your life to figure out the answers. He said, “To resolve is to re-solve. The situation is already solved, and you only need to remember the solution.”
