The Commandments

I like the story of Moses. For those of you who need the cliff notes, he climbed a mountain, there was burning bush (no not fire crotch you dirty birds!), God was emotional, and Moses carried back down with him, a few ideas that have helped define what living a good life has meant for thousands of years. I'm not a God fearing woman, but I have climbed my own mountain and these are the commandments that I brought back from my journey.

1.)Thou shalt not waste time. If you are not in love with what you are doing, do something different.

2.)Thou shalt not make excuses for other people's behavior. People are who they are and we are given the gift on intuition. Let your intuition win out over wanting to believe. Let me say that one more time, always listen to your intuition, it is smarter than you are.

3.) Thou shalt fully believe in Acom's Razor at all times. Cliff notes: the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one. Duh!

4.) Thou shalt take bad memories & objects with bad karma and re purpose them. Problem: my home was furnished with items that were obtained durring a 7 year relationship, lots of painful memories, until I re-purposed them. Idea of a soultion: have the greatest, most fun, and soul satisfying sex all over every piece of furniture that can withstand weight and force. Wall hangings etc., do it standing up while pushed up against the stuff on your walls. Your energy will change, (your partner will thank you for being wild & adventurous in bed!) and the energy wrapped up in the nice sectional sofa that you and your ex bought a Costco, will be replaced by sweat, laughter, and the ability to make you giggle everytime your roomate sits down where you did the nasty! It has the potential to become the couch where, "if you put your leg like this, and I hold on to it over here," you have just invented a new position that should have been included in the Karma Sutra.

5.) Thou shalt not fear nothingness. I slept in my car. Now, I have a M.A., a savings account, and a good job. I suppose I could have found a hotel room, but I was in crippling shock & pain, therefore I couldn't think or function. You can learn a lot from nothingness, but you won't know what can be learned until you arrive at nothingness.

6.) Thou shalt not love someone for their potential. If they could be a Porsche, but in reality they are a Volkswagon, accept it. If you fall in love with the VW, great, but don't fall in love with the fact that they could be potentially, some day, in the future be a Porsche. It takes a good team of car builders and mechanics to make that happen. It may never happen. If you have no idea what I am talking about, Porsche is just a nicer VW, same motors, same parts etc, but obviously, one is more evolved than the other.

7.) Thou shalt take life's hardships and turn them into opportunity to create good. I was divorced at 28. I was worried that it might change me for the worse. But it didn't, something clicked in me on my birthday. And that was the beginning of the rest of my life. In fact, I spent my 29th birthday drinking fine scotch, by candle light, making love to a wonderful upstanding gentleman. I have lived more since I turned 29 than I did in the past several years.

8.) Thou shalt forgive thy self for making mistakes.

9.) Thou shalt realize that happiness is often a choice.

Take these commandments and remember that there is someone out there who can relate, who has lived through it and has survived to tell the tale. Lucky thought, I didn't end up with a burning bush (fire crotch joke intended)!