Settle in.
Close your eyes and breathe.
Welcome to a hit of hope.
We often get in our own way.
We prevent ourselves from being content and how do we do that?
Many times it's because of our habits.
Our habits allow us to put off our happiness.
Our habits reveal our real priorities and values.
And they are often not the ones we want to have.
But again and again we have to remember this is the only life we get.
Do you want to live every day in the comfort of your habits?
Do you want to be ruled by them,
Even those which are no longer serving you,
Or the ones that are causing you harm?
Or do you want to try out some new ways of being?
Can you embrace the uncertainty of possibility and leave behind your small and fearful self?
Refuse to squander your choices and chances.
You do not know how many more you will get.
Decide now to be a badass with a big heart.
Quit believing that stuff will make you happy.
Or that it's better to watch life being lived on a screen.
Or missing out on living your own life because you are on a screen.
Strike out on the real and twisting path.
Feel the light on your head,
The rain on your face,
The ground under your feet.
Brave the hard conversation.
Greet the neighbor and stranger.
Listen and smile.
And you know what?
Be bored.
Make art.
Give gifts.
Say yes to that which opens you wide,
Uncomfortable as it may be.
But say no to that which leaves you exhausted or ashamed.
Refuse to stay safe inside your walls,
The physical ones,
The mental ones.
Instead,
Walk into the wild through the open door.
Namaste.
