What if today, right now, we stopped what we’ve been doing? What if we halted our traditional Monday practice, dead in its tracks, and did something new?
What if you just sat for one second and dreamed of what you’d be doing if you had followed your passion? What would that look like? Who would you be? What would you be doing? Would Monday be then what it is to you now?
What if we threw caution to the wind — gave ourselves to love, to hope, to potential and to possibility? What if the affirmations we’ve grown aaccustomedto reading and citing actually became a statement of intention instead of graffiti on the walls? What if we aimed to be next to our heart’s mate, recognizing the gift and breath of life in each act of surrender until, finally, the Divine in me actually bowed to the Divine in you? More importantly, what if our Divinity recognized itself in the eyes of our beloved to the point where It bowed not just to Itself in each other, but the very core of It in ourselves?
Namaste.
I am a man who certainly understands my own mortality. I understand yours as well. Some may say I overstate our end, that I focus on it a bit too much. I say I just understand it and the very finite amount of time I have to live this life. I want to cherish each moment and not waste one drop of the sweet juice of life. I don’t want to spill this drink on the ground. Wasting such nectar on soil that cannot taste its wonder, cannot enjoy or savor its sweetness, seems to be throwing away an oasis in the desert. When you are dying of thirst, and in most of our cases that thirst is for life itself, every drop of juice is precious. I simply have no desire to wait until I am dying of thirst to recognize the preciousness of life. Nor do I wish to wait until my final breath to recognize my own potential.
Things must change if I wish to fulfill not only my own visions but also quench my thirst for life. I have dedicated myself to living the life I so desire, in a way I desire it, so that when I breathe my last I have no regrets, no inhibitions, and no wishes for things to be different. I want to look into her eyes and know I’ve loved her to my fullest, that I’ve given a part of myself fully to the endeavor of love, to the demands of life, in the fulfillment of my own passions and zest for life.
In that respect, this Monday is unlike any other in recent memory. I’ve seen the future in visions, tasted the potential as it swirled in a chalice before me and I want it. My heart is vibrating with the knowledge that this is possible. My soul screams, this is not only possible, but necessary. My Being sings, you’ve been prepared, now get to it. My mind is rife with fear, with uncertainty, but my heart is steadfast in its determination.
My life changes right now. Today. This second. Come with me. Envision your truth and make it real.
If I am to struggle, let me struggle in the realization of my truth not in the quest to meet the definitions of others. If I am to work hard, let it be while I bathe in my own passion so that I may swim to a shore of my own choosing. If I am to spill my guts to the world, let it be as a light for whomever is in need of a torch along their path. Let it be my passion that lights the way so that I am never lost again.
In the stillness of a humid Florida morning, I was blessed with a vision. I know it to be a true destination if I choose the path to it. Of course, I will have to walk the path, face its challenges, climb its fallen rocks and stumble on its scree to arrive, but arrive I will. I am done waiting, wanting, wishing and hoping. I now begin doing.
I hope you share with the world what you envision in your passion, and what you dream to be while basking in that glow even if it is not yet time for you to begin that journey. Walk with me, with us, toward that horizon even if at your own pace. We may not wait up for you, and ask you not to wait up for us, but you will the footprints before you and those you leave behind as inspiration enough.
This is truly exciting. Now, onward to the day!
∞