Living on the Planet of Awesome and Forever

I live on the Planet of Awesome and Forever.

I have proof.

Sometimes my planet is real and physical: I revel in the sun and rain, the dark and stormy, the people and the beings who make me laugh and think while challenging me to be my best, no matter what.

Always my planet is a state of mind, clear in the choice of love over fear.

Love drives the Planet of Awesome and Forever. There are a lot of us here. It’s time for everyone else to join us. Here’s why.

I keep hearing how bad things are out there, how desperate people are, how survival means anything goes.

Well, anything does not go. Not on the Planet of Awesome and Forever. Here’s what that means for me.

In many ways 2011 has been a wonderful year for me: I won a prestigious national award for my book, I launched a new kind of intuitive consultation practice—a partnership with my crystal, Fallon—and I’ve met fascinating new people on their own amazing journeys. It’s been both humbling and exciting.

I’ve also faced stunning difficulties:

• a virulent flu that derailed most of my year
• a crisis that both complicates and enlightens my future
• people who learned from me and then stole my work
• people who expected me to work for free while they paid themselves (welcome to the new feudalism)
• negligent and uneducated vets who endangered my dogs

So here’s what I did:

• I took time to get well.
• I looked for alternatives that make life easier for me and for my family.
• I turned some matters over to an attorney.
• I strengthened my resolve to model compassionate, thoughtful interactions.
• I continued to quietly build a business that enriches my life as it serves an enlightened community.
• I’m bringing the vets up on charges. Oh, you better believe that one!

And here’s what happened, just in the last few weeks.

• I am finding answers that are healthy and make sense.
• I discovered attorneys can be a good thing, and that controversy can both enlighten and strengthen.
• I decided that if I’d had a choice 20 years ago, I’d still choose the pain and limitations of being disabled and having to reinvent a life over being an asshole and a thief and never finding my path.
• If you open yourself up to love, fear just bounces the hell off:
  • I’ve made wonderful new friends who think my intuitive practice with a partner who’s a crystal is intriguing, fun, and worthwhile.
  • Neighbors came running to help my recovering dog.
  • A close friend whose mother is dying raced to the vet ER and massaged a painful kink out of my shoulder.
  • A dear friend who is undergoing her own family crisis cheerfully bathed my stinking dogs in exchange for a home-cooked meal.
  • Two wonderful vets who love my dogs expertly cared for them.
  • I finally met my eldest dog’s ‘grandma,’ and we’ll be celebrating life, love, and Cavaliers with her and her family next week, on what will be my multi-species family’s 13^th anniversary together.

Life is awesome!

Choosing Love Over Fear in a Practical World

Here’s what I know. Choosing love over fear doesn’t solve all our problems, because we won’t always agree. But choosing love does model our choices.

My experiences this year have sobered and intrigued me. What I and so many people see out there is troubling and encouraging. Troubling, because serious problems exist. Encouraging because many people are choosing healthy, compassionate ways to explore and resolve them.

We urgently need to define community, whether it’s our work or our social life. How do we want to live together, and how will we?

Make no mistake: living on the Planet of Awesome and Forever is not naïve. It is not turning a blind eye to the problems. It recognizes the increasing hostility in our society, the strange personal and business meltdowns that are justified in the name of survival. The disquiet is everywhere. I’m not the only one who’s noticed.

Make note: it is not only humans who are concerned. Remember, I work as a professional intuitive, I talk with all manner of beings, and they, too, are advocating change.

It’s time for change.

The first change is a truth check:

• Anything goes does not work.
• None of us will survive if ‘survival’ defines our lives.

So here’s a plan:

• Quit counting the desperation.
• Start counting the awesome.

Here are my awesomes.

I have the world’s greatest family: a woman, two dogs, and a cat are proving that we’ll always be a family, in body or not, because on the Planet of Awesome and Forever love endures.

If we have to have bad days to get to the good ones, then we will. And we’ll make them count. Because there’s no other real, practical, inspiring choice than love. It’s awesome. And forever.

We live on the Planet of Awesome and Forever:

• Where nothing is too hard or too much work or too painful
• Where all beings are held responsible for their choices: firmly, compassionately, clearly
• Because love and truth are always, always awesome and forever

It’s time to take back love, and community. It’s time to stand up for what’s right, to dig deep into conflict with patience and respect and compassion.

It’s time.

Come join us on the Planet of Awesome and Forever.

It’s your planet, too.

© 2011 by Robyn M Fritz