Wake up

Wake up. Wake up to the morning, the afternoon, the night. Wake up to the subtle moments, the in-betweens, just as much as the momentous, the corner stones. How?

~ take stock, reflect, notice. identify, engage, embolden ~

Its up to you to take advantage of your life. “You only live once”-once upon a time I believed in reincarnation or something like it, maybe I still do. I wonder if it would be the whole of you starting again. We don’t remember our past lives on average so if your memories aren’t distinctly yours, where do they go? Are they still yours? Do they exist within you but buried somewhere you can’t access? Are these unknown memories what we chase in our next lives or do we seek the net new? In this way “you only live once” still holds up, even if you have multiple lives. When you can’t remember your pasts, you are in your one and only life exactly as you are.

So then, we only have one life to live, what will we do with it? Its so easy to get caught in the repetitions of life that you forget your life is yours to make. I fall into this from time to time and I need to shake myself out of it to see past the valley for the ridge line. It happens in an instant. I suddenly realize it and in the same moment I’m shaken out of it. I am awake. I’m still running in the grooves of daily life but now I see the edge of the groove and it expands.

I am expanding. I am evolving. Making new memories to forget.