Write the Truth That You Refuse to Leave Without Saying
I came across an artist from Minnesota recently who paints gorgeous paintings and writes poetic prose beautifully.
One of Matt Moberg's posts online was what he had written to the prompt "Write the Truth That you Refuse to Leave Without Saying". It's things he'd learned in life that he felt were important to say before the end of his life (he's young and not dying).
I was so moved by it, I decided to take a stab at the same writing prompt. Here is my answer:
You are alive. You have life itself within you. You are fire and rain and thunder and joy and grief and all of it all at once.
Live.
Live in big bites. Live in the biggest bites you can find.
Keep nothing inside because it's too big. Never diminish your dreams. You are the vastness of the stars and galaxies. You are glorious.
You are the force of life itself in a wonderfully human body with a mind capable of creating and dreaming and being aware of itself. You are unfathomable.
You are the depths of beingness and bliss.
We are all capable of such heights of clarity and vision and such depths of despair.
You are the clarity itself. You are the unbreakable energy behind life. You are it.
You are God experiencing the gift of a human life.
You are the miracle.
Live.
Taste everything. Try it all out. Find your Fuck Yes! and your Fuck No!
Become intimate with wonder. Let it infuse your whole body until you are drowning in wonder.
Eat ice cream on the beach and let it melt down your arm and drip off your elbow. Get stung in the face by a wasp. Plant flowers because they are yellow. Play hooky. Love with all your love. Never hold your love in or play it cool. Get your heart broken. Jump onto the waterslide that scares the shit out of you. Feel the sun on your face. Make snow angels. Stick your tongue onto that frosted fence. Behold the stars while they behold you. Feel the life that teems under your feet and all around you every second of the day.
Love more.
Dance for joy more.
Get rained on. Jump in the puddles. Run in the meadow. Be you. Be the youest you are. Add your song to the symphony of life.
There's only one feeling that comes from your truest you. It's that feeling of being alive. The aliveness that moves you and in you. It's you.
All the other emotions come from your thinking. All they are ever telling you is a warmer/colder game of on track/off track.
Your thinking isn't even any thing. It dissolves. Lol. It really does. If you leave it alone it will die out like a campfire left to burn out. Stop putting on the fuel.
In each moment you're either feeling your aliveness, your you-ness, or the felt feeling of your state of mind.
Your aliveness knows. There's a feeling to yes and a feeling to no. It is your soul guiding you to your life, your song. Guiding you to a life you are in love with living. Let wonder and life be your guide. One step at a time and you'll find your way. Slow down and listen. Listen to your soul. Listen to the feeling of life within you. What do you want? Really just want. Unreasonably.
Your other feelings are there to keep your mind on track. Allowing inspiration and creativity to come through. If it doesn't feel good, you can leave it alone.
You are absolute beauty. Amazingly alive.
You have no idea the bigness we all are.
Live the biggest life you are inspired to live.
You don't need to worry, judge, compare, be stressed or any of all that. You get to think whatever you want. You are taken care of. You don't need to spend all your time trying to keep bad things from happening.
You are equipped with your knowing, your creativity, your really nice feeling of being you, and a body that is always on your side and self-heals like nobody's business. We are infinitely resilient.
Nothing sticks to us.
Sometimes you'll feel upset or scared or shocked and horrified. But that's ok. Those are feelings. We're designed to have them. They are simply telling you about the quality of your thinking. You can keep them, or you can let them move along.
Your focus is your power. You are the power to create worlds and to dissolve them in the blink of an eye.
So, go and live.
With Love,
Sara Joy
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