Sometimes the hardest part is being exactly where you are.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is being present,
Being fully and calmly in the now,
Really feeling alive and not trying to get anywhere,
Not pushing for anything more,
Not trying to become somehow a better version of who you already are.
So I created this reflection for the overachievers,
The boundary pushers,
Anyone who constantly feels like it's not quite enough,
You're not quite there yet,
Not quite where you want to be.
And whenever you arrive at the next goal,
You don't even notice,
You just keep rushing and pushing for the next level,
The next thing,
Always further,
Never enough.
This is a reflection for you to give yourself permission to be exactly where you are and to let everything you are and everything you've done be enough for once.
So here it is.
What if you didn't have to get anywhere?
What if this is it?
What if you've arrived?
What if you are here?
And what if you've gotten far enough?
What if this is it?
You've done enough.
You've arrived.
Anything beyond this moment is the cherry on top.
You've made it.
You've done what you needed to do and now you get to do whatever you like.
There is no more pressure.
There is no next level.
There is nothing else to arrive to,
To chase after,
To strive for.
This moment,
This second,
This feeling,
This reality,
This is it.
You're here,
You're alive and you have all this life left to do whatever you want because you already are safe,
Already have done what you needed to do and if you wanted to,
You could stop right here and it would be enough.
All you've done is already enough.
All you've endured,
All you've lived through,
All you've understood,
All you've gotten over and passed,
It's been enough,
Sufficient.
You've done well.
You're not incomplete.
You don't need to get better,
Smarter,
Fitter,
Faster,
Stronger,
Wiser or more successful.
You don't.
You've arrived.
You can exhale.
You can relax.
All this,
All that's more is extra.
This is dessert.
You've lived it,
You've done it and now you can go play.
So go,
Play.
You don't have to do anything.
No one is watching as closely as you think and no one really cares.
So can you just drop it?
The pushing,
The striving,
The hassle,
The pressure that really only lives in your own mind.
No one is watching as closely as you are.
You're doing this for you and for yourself only and only you know what you need and for now you don't need any more.
You can relax.
Exhale.
Whatever you choose to do is fine.
Whatever you choose not to do is fine.
So go exhale if you want,
Push if you want,
But if you don't then don't.
You have a million hours to play.
Go have fun.
Don't keep beating yourself up over all the things that aren't yet.
You're here.
You've arrived.
This is the end of the must do.
This is all you ever needed to do.
Now you can go do whatever you please.
Society tells you it's never enough.
It's always more,
The next thing,
Higher,
Further,
Stronger,
Faster.
No.
Stop.
Stop right now and exhale it all.
All of it.
Let it go.
Find a place to land and stay there.
Breathe.
Exhale.
Just live.
Live fully in this moment.
Don't try make it anything else.
Don't try to use it as a place to get somewhere else from.
That's not what living is.
Be in this moment as though it was the last one you need,
The last one you need to be in.
Just rest your mind.
Pretend you have arrived until you believe it.
You don't need to justify your existence.
You're here.
That's okay.
You're good exactly as you are and this is all there is.
Look up for more if you want but don't feel like the world will end or that you will fail if you don't.
It's okay to loosen that grip.
It's okay to soften.
You won't apart.
You won't disappoint them.
You won't fail.
You will just float peacefully,
Joyfully and maybe you'll be happy for a change.
Maybe you will truly be in love with yourself and with life for a change.
If you could just drop the constant bar raising,
The constant need to improve,
To perfect,
To level up.
Breathe baby.
Breathe.
You're okay.
You're here still.
You made it all the way to this moment despite everything,
Despite all that could have made you stop.
But you didn't stop.
You didn't break.
You didn't lose.
You made it.
Exhale.
Exhale all of it.
Inhale peace.
Exhale freedom.
Inhale the permission to be.
There is nothing to change,
Nothing to fix,
Nowhere to run to,
Nowhere to rush to,
Nothing to push for.
There is just this life,
This gift of a life that you've got.
Inhale freedom.
Inhale the permission to be.
Exhale freedom.
Inhale the permission to be.
Exhale freedom.
Inhale the permission to be.
Stronger,
A wiser.
I am here.
I have arrived.
And it's completely okay to stay as I am,
Where I am,
Doing what I'm doing,
In the way that I'm doing it.
Breathe in freedom.
Breathe in the permission to be.
Exhale the pushing,
The grasping,
The striving.
Just for a while,
Taste what it feels like to be allowed to just be.
Breathe in the strength that you already have.
Breathe in the love that you already are.
Breathe in the peace that already lives within.
And exhale everything.
Let it all go.
Rest as long as you like in this space,
Where you are allowed to fully,
Wholly and truthfully just be as you are,
Where you are.
Where you are enough,
Because you are enough.
It's been enough,
Because it's been enough.
Exhale everything you need to.
Hold on to nothing.
Resist nothing.
Ask for nothing.
Change nothing.
Just breathe.
Just be.
