In the general experience of life people as a whole do like to be liked. They as a whole do like to be appreciated, and on the whole people do seek to be helpful and to do no harm to others wouldn't you say?

Well, if one were to spend a great amount of time looking at and really absorbing the messages that span the great news sphere of the world one would find much talk of upset, unrest and a dishevelment of much of the social order of the world. It really is a fascinating thing you know to look and see one thing that is a presentation of one way of existence and to have an innate sense of the ways that people feel in the other. Overall it brings it the surface of the mind just how much one allows others to steer ones own state of mind over the state of one's spiritual soul?

Have any of you ever had one of those mornings when you set out with a smile on your face and as the drive or the commute to your destination seemed filled with the tenacity of the angry driver, the unpleasant passers who seem to have an affinity with their elbows more than the habit of a pleasant smile and a courteous manner? Has anyone ever witnessed drivers so pressed for their own destinations that they pass over a double line regardless to how it sets others in danger or to that short temper that just yearns for someone else to set it off so there can be a release out in another's direction? We all have had this experience and this author would dare say that it was all too often a happening, especially for those more attuned to an urban life.

One of the most spiritually attuned questions I was ever taught was from my parents when they were in traffic and facing someone who was truly setting them up for some confrontation of a sort. The short version of the self-check was so easy and so simple it smacked of a bumper sticker yearning to be printed. It also always did and to this day, always does work for it always reminds of the nature of people as a whole and that nothing is so critical that it requires a deconstruction of the decent ways of the spirit. The question goes like this:

"Is it really worth it?"

This simple question has solved more potential problems and placed into the pathways of unrest and disorder a great gate that refuses entry to the soul that is in risk of some harm of the body or the spirit.

Is it worth it?

Really?

Just think about that question for one moment and yes, perhaps two! Regarding any challenge being placed before you in any situation, is there enough time out of the day to ask this one single question? It is a question that just may set you apart from some deconstruction of your own spiritual, social or physical order of peace and it just may be the one question that keeps you from doing something, from saying something or possibly acting out in some way that could very well leave you in the fix of a situation that you could be wishing you could escape from just as quickly as it all rose into your path of being.

"Is it really worth it?"

This is a self-troubleshooting question that can offset many upsets and injuries of the spirit and the physical body.

If there were more examples of people who end up in the middle of situations that end up on news broadcasts, in news print, and in the subject lines of so many separate information pieces associated with unrest and potentially worse, quite possibly the world and many separate pieces of it would seem as a much calmer place.

Accompanying this question is this author's lifelong sentiment regarding people as a whole that has never changed. This is that people are all generally good deep down, even the seemingly worst of them. What has steered a few down the darkest of paths is a long trail of bad decisions and unfortunate experiences. None of this is geared to an excuse from responsibility mind you the reader of this thoughtful surmise. What it does however is to consistently remind this spiritualist author that everyone has someone that loves them also. It is that everyone has something in their lives they feel passionate about also, and it is that everyone has something in their lives that may be upsetting them for some reason and just perhaps they need some space of the spirit on the part of another to given them some room for awhile.

"Is it really worth it?"

This single question just may in some circumstances save someone's life!

Think about it...

As Always,

WD Allan

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