It’s ok to just breathe

It’s ok to just breathe

Sometimes you’re under water and you have to hold your breath
But for now it’s ok to just breathe
Sometimes you’re running and you can’t catch your breath
But for now it’s ok to just breathe
Sometimes you’re taken aback and you lose your breath
But for now it’s ok to just breathe
To hang in the air like dust particles unveiled by the light
To absorb like a sponge
To hang like a lightbulb
And shine as bright
And to just breathe
To understand that this moment and this thing you are doing is ok and it’s yours

What I have learned.

It is okay to be vulnerable. To be so is to open yourself up to opportunity in a completely passionate and full way. It is opening yourself up for failure. It is also opening yourself up for chances that might otherwise elude you or be impossible. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is an emotional investment. Similar to leveraging, vulnerability is risky. It can be painful in the end or worth it in entirety. But to do something worth your time and worth your attention, find something you would make the risk for. It does not have to be comfortable, often life is not comfortable nor easy. Learning is often most productive and real when one is least comfortable. From there you can only go up. From here, I can only go up. 

Day Four.

Beginning can be abrupt, can be gradual, and for me- is a violent tearing into an unknown dimension. As if there should be some rolling of drums or the harpsichord announcing your entrance, you’re there. Despite this “newness” being all together anti-climatic for many around me, it is intimidating, awe-inspiring, and my own. That something is my own for the first time is beyond the spectrum of my categories for the world, it is beyond my range of vocabulary so that it is difficult for me to express and wrap my mind around the fact, I must be doing something right. Thank you to those that have and do believe in me.