I'M RIGHT!!

Suddenly, I noticed myself caught on being right.  I stopped. Just withdrew the energy. The monologue died in its tracks.

First there were echoes of my self-justifications ebbing away. Then, nothing but a dense silence.

Then I heard another voice, a quieter one, urging the very opposite position to what I had been feeling so
right about. just a moment or two before. This voice was familiar, too. Then I remembered. Once or twice in the past I have been just as vehement about the opposite point of view.

"Does this make me a hypocrite?" I wondered.

"No -- human. When you're on a position, you also occupy the opposite position, but you conveniently forget or ignore that. Don't feel bad; we all do it. We don't have any choice about that. It's the Law of Opposites. Can you just let that be part of your experience of being human?"

I looked at that for a moment. Then, in some surprise I realised, "Yes, I can."

In that moment, both positions disappeared. Vanished. Gone. Involuntarily, I took a deep breath and let it go, and something let go of me. Supporting Something, and being right about it is so exhausting!

Nothing... happened. Isn't that amazing? Nothing is something that can actually happen to us.

I experienced something similar when my mother died. In one moment, there was something happening; in the next moment -- Nothing happened.

And it was an awesome benediction.  Space...... Peace......

Then it came time to pick up my stuff and resume the journey...........

But now, the burden is a little lighter.