Week 3 Reading - The Way Things Are

I have watched the movie Babe many times. I love the story behind each of the animal characters and the information that the story is trying to reveal. There is a real sense of "the way things are" and many of the animals have resigned themselves to what they are. All of them except for Ferdinand the duck. He wants to be something else like a rooster so he wont have to look at the ugly truth of the way things are in his life. He lives thinking of what should be and wants to be anywhere but in the present.
Accepting the way things are is a great start to being present without resistance and allows one to feel the entire moment for what it is. Clearing judgments and closing exits to stop the blaming of why things are the way they are is a step in the right direction. However, I do believe that anyone can change the way things are in many aspects of life if they just set their mind to accomplish them. Accepting that I am female is essential. Accepting that I am a trainer and that is just the way it is, is not. Ferdinand the duck needed to learn to accept that he was a duck, but he could not accept that humans ate duck and that he could be the next meal, so he flew away. Change will get you out of the way things are to some degree by showing a different side to the same things. Things are what you make it and the way things are is what it is...your reality.

See Babe Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myyb4FUUMwI