“(...) to be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”
- E. Cummings -
What words would you choose to describe your own Life?
What do you want from it and what do you make of it?
In an ideal Life — a life of purpose and deep fulfillment — we make what we want to experience exist. In an ideal life, time is not short, neither are the pleasures that deeply fulfill our soul. In an ideal Life, our longing for direction is attained, we find our private North Star and no matter what storms might stand threatening us in the horizon we know what our original path should look / feel like.
“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
- Carlo Rovelli -
Life just can't be explained or understood. It is told as a story in a private circle and felt by its audience. We are stories makers, and the stories we tell ourselves, and retell to others, make us who we become, and in a seemingless timeless repetitive continuum wave, we endure the questions each story leaves unanswered, as well as what perhaps is the heaviest thought of all, the idea of our own mortality.
We all wish to live, well, we wish to live while there is still the desire to challenge oneself and understand more... But society tells us otherwise. We are told that is selfishness, childish to follow our deepest dreams, dreams that are only ours, that only we can feel the truth in them. Society asks us to live in a rush, without second thoughts or uncertainty.
Well, stand brave and dive, for it's not a selfish at all to feel passion and pleasure. Indulgence is the antidote to the fear of being alive and, in a soul centered mind, indulgence can actually become the fuel for your most generous contribution to the world.
Unshelve yourself, and experience the world as if for the first time. Don't let anyone tell you how old you are, and what is expected from you. Stand alone if necessary, but stay honest to the only person you will forever follow, yourself.
"The true and durable path into and through experience, involves being true … to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge.”
- Seamus Heaney -
In our sanest hours we can feel there's no barrier or contours that separate us from the rest of the world, we are part of everything, everything is weaved together, so why is it that too many times we feel these deep crevasses that hurt our relationships with others and their ideologies? In one word, absence. Absence of space, time and quietness to appreciate life and love.
Living life following others speed for lust can sound so overwhelming loud inside our heads, to the point that the Ego feels hurt, neglected, and the storyteller that was shining in enthusiasm, stops caring for the words that are being voiced and confusion is installed, joy is lost.
Absence of faith, of love leads to hopelessness. Love is what gives meaning to Life, and to love, one must build a deep intimacy with oneself. How do you do that? Stand brave and follow your own sense of fulfillment, fill yourself with belief and jump, tell an amazing story of yourself and become.
“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time - something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”
- Carlo Rovelli -
Dream, ask what if? You won't be wasting time. By trying to see further than the norm it's natural to feel confused, we are unaccustomed, but don't give up and follow your intuition, we are all capable to adapt to new versions of ourselves. That is what should be called to grow up. To expand. We know so little and yet we are part of the infinite.
