"I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." — Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is like comfort food. He takes us back to a different time in our lives. When we were naive, confused, and vulnerable. Oh wait… that sounds like yesterday.
Years ago, I read a book that blended Taoist philosophy with Winnie the Pooh and it stuck with me through the years. The idea was simple: happiness and wisdom come from embracing your true nature and living in harmony with the universe.
Be more like Pooh... Stop overthinking, stop overcomplicating and slow down enough to actually enjoy the honey.
Then reality has to set in. I live in Chicagoland; with bills to pay, kids to raise, work to get done, and an ex-wife who seems to have sprinkled eggshells all over Cook County. Busy people don’t live in the Tao of Pooh.
Maybe that is the point. Maybe that is why Pooh’s wisdom hits harder now than it did when we were kids. You can’t always control the chaos, but you can control whether you let it consume you.
Today is Get Checked Day. Ladies, get those mammograms scheduled. Fellas, while the women are taking care of their boobies, maybe make sure the balls and the booty are all good too. That reminds me of what my Oldman told me on my 35th birthday:
"Moose, it is time to find a doctor with small fingers."
Joking aside... do whatever you can to make it to your 85th birthday. Life is too short not to get checked and too astonishing to cut short because you didn't want to go for a check up!
