Good isn’t the absence of bad it is also the presence of good.  People often think that just because they don’t actively behave a certain way they aren’t that way, or they believe because they feel a certain way that they are that way.  Neither is true–We have to live with decisiveness.  Stop living on the fence, thinking that life will happen for us because we are neutral.  This piece doesn’t need to be long to reiterate what we spoke about yesterday or what I’ve spoken about a million times: The universe responds to energy and action and if we don’t match the action to our energy or vice versa, the universe doesn’t know how to respond.  To move forward we must get started.  Being good doesn’t derive from not being bad—we have to actively do good things.  The same is with anything in our lives.  We don’t become a writer without writing.  We don’t get to travel without buying the tickets.  We don’t learn to sing by listening to music. To live is to do and we must be decisive so the results are clear.

There are people who spend so much time defining good and bad or judging others that they never look at what they’ve done in their own lives.  They think the act of judgement is somehow living.  Good doesn’t come from thinking we know all the answers and telling people how to live either.  Real good comes from focusing on doing our best and taking the opportunities to do our best when they come.  It’s about seizing life and making choices and learning from them and being who we are meant to be.  Life is a series of decisions and a clear being, not a matter of avoiding something.  We must DO.  So be certain, be clear, be direct, and most importantly, be authentic in our actions and choices.  Don’t allow the absence of something make us believe we are something else—and don’t let what has happened stop us from creating what we want moving forward.  Live boldly.  Live clearly.  Don’t sit on the fence.            

This life is full of potential and can be deemed any one of a million things.  Those familiar with Schroedinger’s cat know the concept that the cat in the box is either alive or dead and therefore BOTH alive and dead until we open the box to see what it is.  There are scenarios where we open the box and it either one is true, but we don’t know for sure until we open it.  The same is true with life—it is good and bad, it is light and dark, it is joyful and painful, it is organized and chaotic—sometimes one or the other but always the possibility for both or anything exists.  It is up to us to make it.  There are infinite blank pages in this life and it is up to us to fill them.  While they are blank they are both good and bad, filled with endless potential but not defined.  While they are blank they are nothing more than paper.  Once we define it, we create the presence of something and it is up to us to define further what that means.  Get writing and rewrite or add to the text as often as we need to.