I figured out how to be still.

My problems were coming not from being denied what I want now; they were coming from the fallout from the specific ways in which I was most recently hurt by someone else.  After working through those emotional issues (and listening to three hours of Verdi opera), I have realized many things about my heart and my mind that I hadn’t known before.

Now I’m good.  It’s nice.  I am no longer chasing what I can’t have.  I am no longer feeling entitled to things out of my control.  I am happy.  Hooray!