I don’t hold on to “good”

I am always cognizant of the opportunity cost

There’s always something else I could be doing — that is ALSO “good”

 

It doesn’t have to be “the best!”. I do not mean it in an ambitious sense. I don’t crave enhancement

I just don’t take “good” so seriously

 

I don’t fail to appreciate the good, mind you

Quite the opposite: when I’m willing to forego it — I only appreciate it more,

And when I don’t need it — I appreciate it more

I enjoy it each time anew, I celebrate it each time a new, because i CHOOSE it each time anew

 

I don’t waste the “good” either.

I don’t give up what’s really good — then suffer the loss

I am profoundly aware what’s truly good — and what is merely pleasant, comfortable, congenial, decent

And I am always cognizant of the opportunity cost

 

I am always cognizant of the opportunity cost

I will improve, I will elevate

Again, NOT because I need it, mind you

Only because it’s the right thing, right way

“Good” is NOT good enough

I LOVE the “good”, and I appreciate it

And then I still go beyond it

I gladly give it up to TRY something else, something new

 

See we get confused about this “good” thing,

-we get attached to strange things, seem unable to live without them, as though they are so “good”

-and then we squander our great gifts, our time, our talents, our energy, failing to appreciate the tremendous opportunity which betided us, failing to appreciate the goodness which betided us

 

Why not take a fresh look at the “good” in our lives, and the “good” before us?

Why not give a new appreciation to the things we love?

and then, why not chose to do without, choose to do something else that day, that year?

Why not look around, see what good awaits us, if we only let it happen to us, if we only let ourselves be exposed to it?

 

…it’s never “good” to me

I can let it go anytime

It’s never “bad” to me either — I love it all

I won’t be complacent because something is “good”

Nor will I be complaining because something is “not so good”

I welcome the good — and expect MORE good — in a calm, trusting way