Real Life
This is one of my favorite quotes and I really need it tonight as I struggle with some old crap from new messengers. It's so easy for me to get snagged up in this idea that my "real life" is out there and will arrive as soon as I've accomplished x y or z. The truth is that my real life is the life I spend waiting for my real life to begin. My real life is the yearning for what I perceive will be my real life. My real life is the struggle to get to what I think is my real life. My real life is the work I do so I can make the most of my real life. My real life is this and only this.
So I face the story of my real life--the one I am actually living--and this is what I find again and again. If I learn nothing else in this world, let it be to embrace the fickle nature of my mind. I can't be too far gone if I can at least do this.
(and screw it if I can't)
posted by Summer Pierre at
9:05 PM
11 Comments:
wow. thank you for sharing this so candidly. it really resonated for me. this is something i'm totally struggling with right now, among a couple of other things. this sense of "waiting for what is to come" can start to feel overwhelming and paralyzing. i like what you said about "embrac[ing] the fickle nature of [your] mind" - that's a very loving way of approaching things. good for you! i love seeing when people can (or try to, anyway) honor themselves and their individual cycles/processes.
anyway. thanks!
Hi. I found your blog by accident one day. I was not even a reader of blogs, but it was somehow attached to an e-mail I opened and the title so intrigued me I just had to check it out. Ever since then I have not been able to stop reading it. I went back in the archives all the way to the first one and am up to December of 2005. I just wanted to say thank you. You have helped me find again parts of myself that I had not even known that I lost. You helped me to remember that there is an artist in all of us somewhere and that all I really had to do was to wake up that slumbering part of me. I look so foward to reading your words every day because you have inspired me to be more creative in my own life. I have started keeping a journal again for the first time in about 15 years. You have helped me learn to not be afraid of what people will think and just say, "Screw it!!!!", and put myself out there in the world. Sorry for such a long winded comment, but THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! From the bottom of my heart I hope that you stick with this blog because for me it really was "An Accident Of Hope" that you decided to share your stories with the world. All the best to you and yours. - Mare Freeborn
Wow. What a wonderful comment above from Mare. Well deserved I must add :-)
"The way you live each day is the way you live your life." Who said that?
The essence of Zen, summed up in three (four) pars. Niice.
I digya blog.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." and life goes fast! hope it all works out. (and it will). glad to know i'm not the only person contemplating her life 15 days into the new year. :)
I was just going to qoute John Lennon too, but someone beat to it. But it is a great quote, a succinct form of what you qouted - "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." It also goes fast.
loved this post and put a link to it on my blog. thanks for making us think.
I loved this post...I have taken on the wise words of Popeye...
"I AM WHAT I AM AND THAT'S ALL THAT I AM"
Thanks for this! It resonates. It was posted by Rice Zachery-Freeman and it screams at me at this time of year.
Thanks!
Denise
Oh, may I please copy this only for my own use in a journal, with proper credit for where I found it?
Thanks, Denise
OF COURSE you can, Denise!
Thanks to all of you who are dropping by from Rice's blog! It's mighty nice to meet you!
xo
Summer
ps as usual, so glad to know that others know what i am talking about. PHEW!
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