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| Prompt: "Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." Jane Austen Write about this in your Blog entry today. ---------- What an invitation! Well, if patience is required many of us, starting with yours truly, it would flunk. Yet, happiness or joy is not something distant, mysterious, or waiting in the hands of others. It's always within us. In my case, I'm quite okay until I have to see a doctor. That is when my blood pressure jacks up. Then, it is a spiral, and I'm always told, "Well, your everything checks out well, but why this bp number?" This was so, again, today. I told the doctor that his nurse hurried me down a long corridor and as soon as I sat down, without letting me catch my breath, took my blood pressure. Of course, it was dangerously high. So I told the doctor what happened. He took my blood pressure again and this time it was much lower, although not the low, normal number I get at home. So he added another bp med to my treasury of pills. It isn't my fault if the medical profession doesn't agree with the idea that peace, clarity, and fulfillment doesn't arrive by hurrying people. My body, like life, moves at its own pace. Also, the quote says, “Or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” Hope has to have patience. Hope means waiting, possibly in stillness. Hope and patience together keep us grounded and glowing. I don't know how this quote relates to my today's medical adventure, but I still have trust in my doctors and I can still understand why and how the nurses are pushed to their limits. As they say, "All in good faith!" |
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