Love the true madness in real things. Without a little insanity, it's going to lack depth. Without depth, you are always going to skim the outer surface of what's essentially attainable for you. Without finding your best stuff and what creates your foundation, development and fulfillment will appear like a distant dream. You see, there's a tendency to become infatuated with the quick and easy, but that's not where the magic is. The magic lies deep within the depths. The magic takes some soul spelunking. The magic...is in jumping out of the boat completely and diving deep into unexplored waters all while having unbreakable faith that you are going to find a bubble of air on the way down.
Uncertainty? Embrace it.
When you really deeply think of it, we reside in a world absolutely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently cracking apart and colliding together. It is a miracle that we are even in a position to function with everything occuring around us. Some find their way early and others spend their whole lives searching for some form of meaning that will give them direction. We seek out direction, education and consume massive amounts of information to help us try to make sense out of all this. What's the journey I am now on? Who am I while traveling on it? This undeniable uncertainty can seduce us into trying to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality in order to help us understand ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about life quotes and the tiny titbits of bite-sized knowledge they can divulge to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for a big disaster. Surface level foundations never work...try building a home on wallpaper.
And that's really what all this surface level stuff is when it boils down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to appear all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is grimy. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees when it feels like it. No matter how much you try to avoid certain things occuring, life acts as a pro dart thrower, hitting it's target every time - regardless of how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they aren't wallpaper in any way. They have some madness to them. They are hard to predict, a bit crazy and almost always completely surprising. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that is the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole entire life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you begin to understand you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the guided hand of the painter.
But you have got to get messy first.
Roll around in the filth. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have made across the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that is going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you've always been afraid to do.
What's life without any risk? Just surviving.
Uncertainty? Embrace it.
When you really deeply think of it, we reside in a world absolutely full of chaos. Everything is going 1,000,000 miles a minute. Things are consistently cracking apart and colliding together. It is a miracle that we are even in a position to function with everything occuring around us. Some find their way early and others spend their whole lives searching for some form of meaning that will give them direction. We seek out direction, education and consume massive amounts of information to help us try to make sense out of all this. What's the journey I am now on? Who am I while traveling on it? This undeniable uncertainty can seduce us into trying to digest surface level pseudo-spirituality in order to help us understand ourselves. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about life quotes and the tiny titbits of bite-sized knowledge they can divulge to us, but without understanding context and avoiding diving into the depths we set ourselves up for a big disaster. Surface level foundations never work...try building a home on wallpaper.
And that's really what all this surface level stuff is when it boils down to it - wallpaper. It is what you put over something to cause it to appear all pretty and nice. Life isn't all pretty and nice. Life is grimy. Life is often vicious. Life can test you and bring you to your knees when it feels like it. No matter how much you try to avoid certain things occuring, life acts as a pro dart thrower, hitting it's target every time - regardless of how fast it's moving.
But in real things (thoughts, emotions, experiences) that have some depth to them, they aren't wallpaper in any way. They have some madness to them. They are hard to predict, a bit crazy and almost always completely surprising. They rip the rug out from under you and help you pop right back up when you're down. It's a bit chaotic, but that is the point. The chaos is the pretty part. The chaos is the art. When you begin to live in that place, your whole entire life becomes part of that painting. Then, when you begin to understand you have a role to play in this world, you can begin to develop the guided hand of the painter.
But you have got to get messy first.
Roll around in the filth. Get mud on your face. Tear down the wallpaper. Burn down the termite ridden support beams you have made across the years and dance in the ashes of it all. That rock solid ground you are standing on - that is going to be the location where you build your life. It's time to build it over again and do the work you've always been afraid to do.
What's life without any risk? Just surviving.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author and creator of The Words Of Encouragement a website devoted to bringing audiences encouraging blogs, life changing quotes, videos and other content to help people follow their passions and purposes.
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