The World Is Your Playground

Another move. Another address. Another chapter in my story. Sometimes it feels I’ve lived a thousand lives and died a thousand deaths. Yes, in many ways life is short. But damn, life is long too. It is long and deep and profound and intricately rich. It is full, bursting, overflowing, plump with the quandaries of being alive. But it’s funny, because for me, the deeper I slip into my years, the farther I get from the ground. Like I’m floating above myself, peering into the window of my life.

Lately it feels as though I've become unhinged, unbound, uninhibited. I am no longer searching, I am just opening. I am no longer trying to make sense of pain but instead trying to be a soft and sturdy home in which the truth can land. I see so clearly how we make our way through this world - through our days, forging ahead - how we build our little lives, make rules, set standards, restraining ourselves, clinging desperately to ideals. We become rigid, repressed, trapped inside a narrowly manufactured picture of who we think we should be. We define ourselves in hard terms and then we live up to them. Because what else would we live up to if not the story we’ve created for ourselves?

Life is unpredictable. It is god damn scary. We cannot know beyond this present moment. Each one of us lives on the shore between the depths of being and the dangers of experience. Oh well. This is life. And here is the truth: There is no one else but you. No one else but YOU. You are the master of your destiny. You are the creator, the conductor, the architect, the author of your story. You are the commander of your happiness. You are magnificent.

And the world is your playground.

The world is YOUR playground.

Have FUN! You can be anyone. Be who you want to be. Life is a game. WIN.

Life is so fucking good. It is an explosion of bliss. Explore it. Choose to be happy. Choose to free yourself from old patterns. Choose to let go of all of your should and should nots. Choose to face life squarely enough to see that it is not a barricade but a door into the endless breath that has no breather. It is only YOU. Choose to let go of every little thing that is holding you back and DIVE, naked, into this moment.

Dive into THIS moment.

The water is perfect. Trust me.