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The Dark Chronicles Act 11: It Is That It Is So Enjoy It

I thought I was done with the Dark Chronicles series, but this one definitely applies.

I've noted in blogs past how when I took a job in Boston I kept hearing a phrase that I hated but learned to like it, later.  It is the phrase "It is that it is."  I hated it, because it sounded to me like surrender.  However, it would change as I gained more life experiences.

The Serenity Prayer asks us to change the things we can but to accept the things we cannot.  That is a part of it, but that's only the negative side of the phrase.  There is a much more positive way to look at it.

It is that it is means more than accepting things that didn't go according to plan in a disappointing way.  It also means accepting the positive things in your life that are not by plan, as well.  The movie Serendipity calls them "happy accidents."  I find that most of the good that came to my life came AFTER other struggles or disappointments that pushed me in the direction I needed and looked very different than what I told myself I needed to be happy.

In an episode of the latest season of Emily in Paris, a character said..

"Being here i understand why the impressionists painted as they did.  It's about capturing nature. None of it is perfect but all of it is beautiful."

Life does not follow a script, and the best laid prayers go unanswered and plans change.  But, change can be liberating.  When you stop trying to make things or people fit into your box of understanding, you can find a freedom to just enjoy things.... as THEY ARE, and that can be just the adventures you actually needed or wanted without even knowing.

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