But Satan is still trying to steal my joy of that night 3 days later. What he is using is the people that were jumping the Que. It wasn't even all the people that were jumping the que that is anoying me , because there were quite a few doing it. It was the ones from the Kings Church (The Christians Ones)
But I don't know why it is still bothering me about those people, because we had great seats at Lilly's show and the show was amaising. And we even got a taxi straight away. So everything turned out Amaising.
I think it was because they were Christians and that's what's sticking in my throat.
When I was thinking why am I still annoyed, It reminds me of the story of the two monks crossing the river. Here is my answer 😊
A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her cross to the other side.
The two monks glanced at one another because they had taken vows not to touch a woman.
Then, without a word, the older monk picked up the woman, carried her across the river, placed her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey.
The younger monk couldn’t believe what had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was speechless, and an hour passed without a word between them.
Two more hours passed, then three, finally the younger monk could contain himself any longer, and blurted out “As monks, we are not permitted a woman, how could you then carry that woman on your shoulders?”
The older monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you still carrying her?”
This simple Zen story has a beautiful message about living in the present moment. How often do we carry around past hurts, holding onto resentments when the only person we are really hurting is ourselves.
We all go through times in life when other people say things or behave in a way that is hurtful towards us. We can chose to ruminate over past actions or events, but it will ultimately weigh us down and sap our energy.
Instead we can choose to let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore and concentrate on the present moment. Until we can find a level of peace and happiness in the present circumstances of our lives, we will never be content, because ‘now’ is all we will ever have.
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