Birth is more than just a moment to cherish. It's only the key that unlocks the door. What is beyond that door is the reason that we are all born in the first place! We are born to really live! We are born to learn and to teach. We are born to give and recieve love. We come into our lives with an open canvas that lets us paint the picture or the empty journal that lets us tell our story. We are born to experience life, not just get through life. Life shouldn't be something that we feel that we have to "get through". I'm not interested in getting through life without drinking it all in. I'm not talking about just the parts where I am full of bliss. For me, I think that if I only want the joyful times, then I'm not honoring the contract that I made with God when I was given life. It's not always going to be pretty. In fact, it's ugly and painful at times. There are times that we truly feel like we can't possibly handle any more pain that we've been living in, but it's that pain that lets us know that we are really alive and that we are learning. The lessons hurt like Hell but they do mean that we have a pretty strong desire to live if we are willing to go through the pain with only hope to cling to for a better tommorow. I need every single experience in my life, the good and the bad,. I need all of the past experiences no matter what they were and I look forward to having more experiences to make my life fuller. I know that I don't get a guarantee that I'll have smooth skies and beautiful weather to cancel out the gut wrenching pain that has become my constant companion. It's all a part of the experience of really living.
I find birth to be a bitter sweet time because we don't have a finite amount of time on this earth to discover our passions and to dive into them and explore. There are no guarantees. It's why it's crucial to take time to immerse ourselves into life! We need to fall in love, and like most people, experience heart break as well. It's all part of the package. If we are lucky enough to have opportunities to experience something new, then we shouldn't let it pass us by. Sometimes those opportunities help us to rediscover our passions and even pursue them! If we are simply going through the motions in life, we will always miss out on those chances! That's something that comes back to haunt us. We need to really live! If we don't, then our story will end with no resolution and our painting will be incomplete.
Fall in love with living! Expect that sometimes you won't want to, but love life anyway. Yes, there will most certainly be pain and loss. Yes, there will be anger and resentment as well as many other feeling that pretty much suck. There's no denying that. I like to think about the other aspects of living that make the bad feeling worth having. We will experience love in so many forms and the best part of that is that when we give that love without conditions, we will get it back even if we don't expect to! We can learn, and that's a beautiful thing. We can teach, and that's beautiful, too. We can show compassion. We can take joy in what we have a passion for doing. I love to listen to Olivia play guitar because she lights up when she plays and I love to see that! She's completely in her element when she's playing. She's creative and talented, but the absolute joy that she has when she plays is what is most clear.
I read a quote today and it really resonated with me.
"Each moment is a place we've never been." -- Mark Strand
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