It’s all too easy to forget your divinity in the common and routine of the everyday. Yet, in the seemingly inane and ordinary, there is…
Tag: life
We are all walking contradictions, caught between the pull of what we’ve known and the call of what we’ve yet to become. Each moment is a fracture in time, a space where the past whispers and the future beckons. In this delicate balance, we find both the weight of what holds us down and the lightness of what could lift us. The tension between these forces is where we learn, where we grow, and where the deepest truths of our existence are revealed.
Mastery is a myth, a moving target, always just out of reach. They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect anything, but what they don’t tell you is that in those hours, you’re not just honing a skill — you’re unearthing the truth of who you are, shedding layers of doubt, and confronting the parts of yourself you never knew existed. The path isn’t linear; it’s messy, unpredictable, and often painful, but it’s the only way to find the edge of your potential.
At some point, we all realize that the weight we carry isn’t always our own, and the patterns we follow aren’t always ours to choose. As children, we embraced the freedom to explore, to wonder, and to leap without looking, but somewhere along the way, the world taught us to conform. Now, as the tide shifts and the foundations we’ve built on begin to crack, we are called to reconnect with that childlike curiosity, that raw, unfiltered sense of adventure.
It was a stormy, windy night when the island’s power went out yet again. I was wondering about the trees and who the hell is flying that prop plane slowly cruising overhead, while the big, bright ferry remains parked at the terminal across the narrows.