You haven’t lived life until you become everything you said you would never become and do everything you said you never would do.
Everything you think you know evolves into something else and just when you think you have it figured out, the entropy of life smiles back at you.
You never know who you’ll be until you arrive at that moment, finding a new piece of you that you didn’t know existed within yourself.
Life is an incredibly messy experience.
We constantly try to categorize life into simpler terms to aid our understanding and expedite decision-making processes.
However, there are often errors in making assumptions.
Life is confusing, chaotic, unpredictable.
We try to assign meaning to the events we observe, but we must keep in mind that such meaning originates within ourselves. It does not exist outside of us.
The universe has its own language, its own mind, its own sense.
We can try to understand, perhaps as a dog would try to understand a human, but we simply do not have the same biological capacity to do so.
We tell ourselves we are intelligent and that we are capable of understanding the ‘why’, but really that is a human projecting their own ego onto the world.
For, in the end, the universe is much larger and grand than any of us ever could be.
It will be here when we leave and extend far beyond our small version of existence.
Surrendering to the power, depth, and mystery of the universe is the only way forward.
The universe cannot be conquered or possessed, only experienced for the short time we are conscious within it.
Life is like a dance we hold onto while we can, enjoying the flow and movement around us, created by us.
We hold the hands of life and feel the arms of love touch us and embrace us.
We feel the excitement and the nervousness of the dance, not knowing all of the steps.
We try to keep up while feeling one step behind. We make mistakes but the rhythm of the music carries us onto the next movement.
When the dance comes to an end, we smile back thinking of the joy we felt and watch as others continue to dance alongside us.
The only peace and power I have found is to say that I don’t know;
To observe and to learn from that which is much wiser than any of us could ever be.
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