Keep Your Suitcase Packed

It’s a fight to survive even in the modern world.  And it’s a sure thing that life is going to throw some changes at you, and you need to be able to roll with the punches*.  Curves that may be devastating and some that actually can be wonderful are out there in the weeds just waiting, and you need to be ready and keep your bags packed.  I’ve made a handy dandy list of the bare essentials to have in your suitcase:

1.       Faith

2.       Friends

3.       Integrity

4.       Sense of Humor

5.       Sense of Wonder

6.       Compassion for Others

7.       Patience

8.       Flexibility

9.       Openness

1.       Hope

1.       Love

1.       Financial responsibility

1.       Physical health and fitness

*Ever wonder where that phrase came from?  It’s a boxing and martial arts concept.  If you meet blows head on and running into them, they hurt much more.  If you roll away from them as they impact, you decenter their force and damage…in other words, in life you need to start concentrating on other things and not your pain and damage so you can move forward in the fight.