jaxsterrr
To succeed is to achieve a desired goal. It is to have labored vigorously so that in the end you will have obtained your prize. I'm not sure that was ever meant to be the purpose of life. To succeed is to reach a destination. I believe we're meant to focus on the journey. Our aim should be to soak in the present, because in the present we graze eternity. The ideas of success and goals and achievement robs us of life and energy and creativity. Life should be about fulfillment. What feeds your soul? What nourishes your spirit? To me life is about sharing my love: helping others breathe easier. It's about the divine moments of being in the presence of the people dearest to you. It's about expanding and evolving as a person and learning new things and venturing into paths I've never thought I'd take. It's about experience. But we all fall into this pattern- this idea of success, but it entraps us...
Her brain is thinking, thinking, thinking.
His eyes are blinking, blinking, blinking.
Her heart is beating, beating, beating.
His lungs are breathing, breathing, breathing.
Life keeps repeating, repeating, repeating...
When will it stop?
"A single thread in a tapestry-
Though its color brightly shine-
Can never see its purpose
In the pattern of the grand design."
He hummed the tune harmoniously and the tea kettle chimed in agreement.
Clinking and clanging were heard as he rustled through his cabinet of oddities.
Among the gadgets and loose-ends his favorite piece of china was humbly perched. He poured the hot water into the cup to create a mixture of tea and collected dust. Grasping the china in hand he sat before the hearth and contemplated his life. Where did I come from? Where am I going? What purpose have I created for myself? He knew his time was limited...
'You reap what you sow.' Those words echo in the recess of my subconscious. They vibrate the aching in my chest and shake the walls of my comprehension. Is the punishment of a heart transformed valid? Can it be nullified just as my former transgressions have become void in my life? I know what I've done. I know who I was. Ever so much I want to run back in time and shake the foolishness that had manifested in my bones. I was lacking what I now obtain. I was a criminal, but now I have changed. And though I have become enlightened, now I must pay...