Good to you, Good with you but Not Good for you

Life is full of opportunities with each person we meet, socially or professionally; it's an ocean of possibilities of what each new person can bring into our lives.

When we allow ourselves to welcome opportunity, we permit chance to take our lives to the next level. People bring their auras with them, the entrance of a new person brings something the universe thinks we need: a lesson to be learnt, course correction, development, exit from shells, joy, experiencing grief, relearning affection, generation of comfort, humility, break away from monotony, dislocation of a thinking pattern, passion to begin again, stirring of the mind or simply a spiritual, mental or physical surrender.

What we do with this new guest determines whether we go through the experience the universe is sending us or do we reject it. 

There is a purpose for all things since there are no coincidences; all things are for a reason.

There are people who are good to you, their aura, chemistry, thoughts, words and deeds are all in harmony giving an overall sense of well being and joy, such people end up as friends, extended family, family, mentor or guru. They nurture everything and encourage our spirit. Their presence is comforting.

Then there are people who are good with you, they are our partners in the journey towards our destination, their presence makes us feel good, do good and give good. We build things with these people; stories, songs, boudoir journals, enterprise, invention, creation, families and all things that will continue to be cherished even after our time has passed.

Lastly, there are people who are not good for you, these are our spiritual contributors and they are the best of the lot. They hold the mirror for us, whip us, criticize us, challenge, shatter perception, break rules and walk on the edge. They are often cased as mean, not our grain, self centered, cold, indifferent, sorted, ruthless and so on. But these geniuses push us so deep inwards that like jack in the box we hit out harder, redefining limits and the concept of limitation. Each of us need people like this to rock our boat, so that our fighter attitude can kick into drive. Some of these people are not even aware of the contribution they make to invention, creation and overall success of those who take them seriously. We need such people to grow and blossom beyond parameters laid down by other people's successes or by roadblocks created by others failure. 

Every new person entering our lives can be either of these three or a combination of them but we will never know this till we give it a shot. If nothing else works, a warm smile is what we can share before parting ways with a new person and if things go great we just might gain a friend or something more.

New entrants help us understand why change is essential. It’s no fun having one view for all of one’s life or making a path choice that must be walked on forever or living life believing one knows all there is to know and everything is sadly a part of some insane pattern.

Change is essential and is proved meticulously by nature, who despite being in existence since existence, yet every winter she sheds her leaves when nature knows she will have new leaves once spring comes again, yet she surrenders to each cycle. Each spring the leaves do come but they are never the same,  neither like the ones gone by nor like the ones that will come next season. Each leaf is unique and each one nature welcomes with fresh enthusiasm.

So the next time you meet a new person welcome this new guest, it's so exciting to see what may fold.

This new guest’s visit could be as limited as the passing breeze; refreshingly cool or moistly warm, stopping by only to caress for a brief moment. Irrelevant of the duration the breeze is always a source of joy. 

Or this person could redefine something in your life or maybe you will return the favor and forge some new chapter.

One would never know till one says yes to life and lets it happen.

Don’t let good to you, good with you or not good for you stop you from the remarkable life waiting to happen to you today.

Painting Curtsey: 

Ms.Manya Sharma - http://gliteringpink.blogspot.in