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.
It is easy to go through life Without looking upon your own reflection. Or To purposely avoid it. Until you spend a period of time, With a mirror right across from you. Where you are forced to acknowledge, The girl in the mirror. The unsettling angles and curves, The colors, shapes, and sizes. Realities that could always be willfully ignored before, Now staring right back. And the acknowledgement that this is the girl Who everyone else sees, Everyone, but me. And I wonder If there is a way To love the girl in the mirror. To not run away from her But to embrace her, Because she is the one Who truly exists. Not the carefully curated version She created for herself.
Like owning a car, scheduled maintenance is necessary to avoid much larger costs; Costs that are not just financial, but those that come at a personal expense as well.
We may see getting an oil change as an inconvenience, something we put off.
We see tire rotation as something suggested, and perhaps unnecessary.
Human nature likes to tell us that we will be the outlier, the one that will not be affected like the others.
Without enduring the minor inconveniences comes major risk and critical failures.
What starts out as not wanting to pay for a brake replacement, may in turn end a human life.
If we carry this sentiment into life, we will be better off.
“Like any operating machine, the human body is made up of a series of systems. Each component in the system serves a specific function to keep the system operating. There are biological pumps, valves, pipes, filters, wiring, as well as contents under pressure. And, just like a mechanical system, if the stress on the components is high enough, those parts can fail.”
Our body is like any other piece of equipment. It needs regular maintenance and care to prolong its use.
Many of us do not take care of our body. We treat it as disposable, an afterthought, something we will replace later on. In reality, this is the only body given to us in this life.
What you consume, in many ways, you become.
Whether it is the food you eat or the content you read, be mindful of what you take in. It may affect you more than you realize.
So, take a moment to reflect and see how you are taking care of your own vehicle.
You owe it to yourself to make the ride as smooth as possible, because there will surely be enough bumps in the road to keep you occupied otherwise.
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