Are you livin'?

Life only passes you by when you're not living it.

As I’ve grown up and gotten a hold of my mind, I’ve felt my own presence really deeply, like you the feeling of existing and having a functioning body and a thinking mind? Yeah that.

It’s amazing when you realise that there is a voice in your head that sees you as a human being, and at that very moment you’re like, “oh shit, I am Living’.

So, once you’ve let that realisation sink in, you find yourself at the edge of a cliff, looking out to the world and thinking… what should I associate myself with? What narrative do I want my mind to play out?

Now two things can happen here –

- Either you stand tall and still on that cliff and look out at the world like a child, curiously inquisitive to feel and experience everything.

- Or you let it overwhelm you and you lose your ground, which leads you to start associating with whatever the world feeds you and leaves you with no time to digest and take it all in.

I am sure everybody at some point has been familiar with what the latter feels like. I mean. Its life we are talking about, excruciating at times.

But the point is, the moment you realise the ‘chaos’ around you, how do you remind yourself to find the anchor, the ground, the thing that keeps you going?

Well,

Let’s trace this back to the voice in your head that so to speak “realised you”, THAT state of awareness is your anchor. It is your first encounter with a force bigger than yourself that is a part of you.

The very fact that you can detach yourself and recognise your existence as a human being has the power to ground you so deeply in your life that you completely detach yourself from the narrative the world presents you.

Now that is not to say to become ignorant or oblivious to your surroundings, or to become a monk (no shade to monks, you do you) but the idea is to build an ‘appetite for life’, for all its trials and tribulations and to let the alive-ness of your existence seep into every experience, every feeling. Give life space to grow without attaching yourself too much to it, and you’ll see the anchor you needed was right there all this time.

I know its easier said than done, especially because it’s easy to lose perspective in daily earth-life stuff, but that’s a blog post for another day.

Lastly, if there’s anything I’d like for you to take away from this piece of writing, it’d be to just believe that the voice in you head is a friend, which is looking out for you in ways you didn’t know you could be looked out for.

Until next time.

Meeत