Hello fam!
I am so sorry I missed this last night – I wanted to be fully present when I wrote the blog of the day, and the last two days have been a little wack. So a little update, I got some proposals to work on at work, and it’s been challenging! I don’t know if I’m on the right track, but I find it quite fun, so hopefully I get to experiment a bit more (: Lately, all I’ve been thinking about is detachment. I think it’s so interesting how we all tend to hold on to things for our dearest lives, but why? Is it for a need for control? Is it because it makes us feel safe? Is it because holding on to things we know relieves us of the unknown? Of the uncertainty?
I’m curious to see how this differs for each person. For me, when I attach to people and things, it makes it that much harder to let go and move on. But sometimes you just need a reset – and you just need to follow your gut instinct when it presents itself. I’m currently re-reading the alchemist, and it’s talking just about this. It’s about a shepherd who travels across his country and each place he goes – he makes new friends, and sees them for however long he wants to. He said attaching to people makes it harder to move on – and that I thought was extremely true. But in my own life, I do think when I know something’s over or I’m not feeling that our lives are intertwined in a way, I can distance and break it off. I have the ability. I just need to make a decision. And stand by it – because I trust myself.
And the title of today’s dive is “Falling in love with life” for a reason. I realized the more we exert control onto everything in our lives, the more attached, comfortable yet predictable everything becomes. Where’s the fun in that? What if we just took it as it came, enjoyed every piece in the moment, and delved in without any precursors? Take a moment to realize that everything in our lives isn’t good or bad, it just is what it is – and it’s only our thoughts that make it otherwise. But if we actually let go of all that in our head, we could just be. Maybe we’d be able to truly live our lives to the fullest. Maybe we’d fall in love with this crazy thing we call life, after all.
