Every day gives us another opportunity to participate in life or find another reason to avoid it. We can create, explore, love, learn, and take chances, or retreat into familiar excuses, grievances, and imagined obstacles. The clock keeps moving regardless. What are you doing with the time you’ve been given?
. . .
This day will pass, whether you dreamed a little dream, drew up a plan, took a baby step toward a goal, did something you love, spent time with the people you wanted to, followed through on those tiny impulses, built something with your hands, picked up a new book from the thrift store, or sang your own beautiful song…
Or blamed someone and the world for sucking the life out of you, escaped into an endless stream of distractions, hid beneath a blanket of woe-is-me, plotted cowardly revenge, turned on yourself in your own mind, put it off until tomorrow, worried about things that will never happen, worried about all the shitty things that could happen, or assembled an impressive list of excuses not to be, do, have, share, give, serve, teach, learn, strive, and dive into life.
Tick tock…
We all get tired. We all fail, try again, fail, and try again. We carry the weight of our own pressures, expectations, unexpressed emotions, and outdated beliefs. We feel compressed, constrained, and stretched to a breaking point.
Many will die long before their bodies do, with a well-rehearsed litany of reasons why.
We all choose to remain broken, or to break through.
Choose again. Choose now.
Carpe diem
Written by Trance Blackman. Originally published on tranceblackman.com on 10 September 2017.
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