Changing Focus

If I focus my attention on the fact that I am disabled, in pain, experiencing emotional turmoil, getting older or any other of a number of unpleasant, earthbound facts of my life, I can certainly feel that life has dealt me some poor cards.  These facts or events of my life are very transient, some would say illusory.  If, however, I change my focus to the eternal sense of “I am”, I can view the same events as very short lived and bringing me closer to love, acceptance and compassion.  The latter is a more long term view that I can arrive at through the processes of detachment and meditation on the wonder of life.