Facing the facts
I always had this attitude, this image, towards how a thing, an experiance, a moment, a person, a relationship, friends, family, a job (basically, a life… Well, My life) should be. How it should feel and maybe most of all – look.
I built that image in my mind growing up, as many of us did. Based on what we saw as kids, what we felt we needed and wanted out of life, and what we were told was good for us (through actions or words)… Even listening to my own voice today, it tells me what is good and/or bad. It tells me what I need and want. Sometimes it’s true, and sometimes it’s far from it. I realise it’s more of an image, in my head.
It’s a never-ending practice, this whole life thing. And the funny thing is, sometimes it doesn’t matter how much we try, how much work we put in for that image to come to life – because life happens. Read that again, life happens. That means sometimes there’s nothing we can do about it.
We forget, and I think it’s because there are a lot of things we actually can control. We constantly seek it, in our bodies and mind, don’t we? Control. Like we have this remote control to our options. Like we hold all of that power. Because the options are endless in today’s world. Our choices in life, we can control. What and who we consider family and friends to be. Who we consider ourselves to be. What we eat and how we move.. We can control a lot of things.
But love, loss, random events, moments, sickness, death – LIFE! – are just some of the things we’ll never gain the remote control to.
So sometimes, just let the movie play. Ride the waves that hit you. Good and bad, harsh and soft, the ones that come and go. Like breathing, sometimes, it’s all we can do.
#facingthefacts #acceptance #living
PS. Thank you @daniellelaporte for sharing your beautiful living and learning ♥️ so that we can live and learn too.