230116 What I learned in my studies this morning 3

NFL weekend.
Athletics at the edge of
Greatness! Then they failed.

Thoughts:

How disappointing it must've been. To be the player that close to making the play. The almost blocked punt.  The almost caught Hail Mary.

Heartbreaking to see a season end in a fraction of an inch.

And now what? How do these players go on? How do they get up today and face the world?

One way: it was never up to them. 

Once the archer lets the arrow fly, the result is out of her hands. She has done her best. She has aimed and breathed and stilled and released.... And then Fate or Chance or the Swerve took over. She'd done all she could do.

Some things are not up to us. Some things just are and we're better off assenting to reality sooner than continuing to push the rock up the hill a few more times and hoping for a different result. 

Today's Meditation:

Today's Meditation II:

Today's Music:

Étude in C sharp minor, op. 2 no. 1 by Alexander Scriabin