The Three L’s

While I was driving home recently, somehow the expression “live and learn” sneaked into my thoughts (yes, if I had been totally present, I would have been thinking solely about driving). The term usually refers to the fact that life is an ongoing educational process – 0n the job training, as it were. For reasons unbeknownst to me, however, the message was more of an encouragement to think of “live and learn” in a different way:

Live every moment of every day. In other words, practice mindfulness. Easily said but done with great difficulty.

Learn something new every day. The law of entropy suggests that, if you are not growing, you are deteriorating. 

At first blush this seems like a formula for a fulfilling life. It is, however, just a tad ascetic. Something is missing. That “something” came to me immediately, another “L” word.

Love, as in love life. Loving life means loving yourself, being compassionate and accepting things as they are. The latter doesn’t mean that you can’t effect change in your life. It means that at the present moment everything is as it should be…and the next moment it will change.