You won’t always have balance, but you can always be trusting of life — especially when you’re not.
Tag: life
We tend to inundate ourselves with shoulds, have-tos, need-tos — amongst all the other worries and legitimate concerns of living. We attach a lot of our creative energy to tasks, and lists, and anxieties about future things, piled on top of whatever may still linger from what has passed.
We make time for a lot of things, usually unconsciously. Strange things, like struggle, worry, anxiety, stress and violence; for jobs, deadlines, tasks, superficial arguments, small-minded obligations; for another’s dream or ridiculous routine.
Life happens. It doesn’t question, though it seems endlessly curious. It doesn’t force, though it frequently shows immense, patient, world-creating power. It doesn’t wait, though it allows for the perception of time to pass.
Most of us will go through life on a fairly predictable trajectory. It would take a concerted effort to live outside of the established parameters of what came before, doubly so because we learn most my modeling, training, and educating by the same means and influences.