Fighting with inanimate objects

Do you (still) find yourself fighting - struggling, tangling, tussling - with nonliving/inanimate objects? Like, but certainly NOT limited to... Toasters that don't toast right? Gaspumps that don't pump right. Traffic lights that don't change fast or slow enough? Automated telephone menu systems that never produce a living/animate object no matter how many buttons you push or words you speak? (Note: "living/animate object": a person, with at least a high school education, who speaks and understands your language without continued prompting and repeating.) And, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!

Well, do you? And... after all those years of meditating, chanting, chilling, long walks on the beach, strolls in the park, reading copious inspirational texts from tens, hundreds or thousands of writers, years and years of "work weekends with Teacher," and all the rest of the "Work on Myself" you have attempted so as to become a balanced human of higher being and consciousness.

Well, you're not alone. Sometimes - sooner than later (which is a lesson hard-learned for many) - you just have to cut that inanimate objects out of your life, one way or the other. Either FIX IT, or buy a new one, or avoid interacting with the old one, or... or... or, the other more difficult thing sometimes referred to as, Achieving REAL SUCCESS in the Work, being now able to use all those "trying experiences" as stepping stones to Higher Levels of Being you always knew were before you, but year after painful year, seemed to elude you.

And that - sometimes, sad to say - may include other kinds of even semi-animate objects (okay, okay; certain people) whom you don't hate, per se, or even dislike, but you have finally learned to respect yourself MORE.

This opens the door to another line of inquiry - a mystery really - having to do with the connectedness of all living things, and the attraction/repulsion characteristics that are always operating behind the scenes which are more powerful than even the strongest and most powerful among us. One could believe - with reason - that the World is ONE Living Thing, and all the apparent bits and pieces, the players, are notes in a Grand Conscious Symphony composed by and performed for the enjoyment of the Symphony Itself. The "Work" then, is to simply experience the Enjoyment.