Hey. I found a lot of joy in recording this piece for you. I encourage you to listen.
The opportunity
The opportunity is.. to say something you haven't said. Go somewhere you never went. Choose a purpose and burn for it. Go to places where there is nature or people in grave need and do something. Let it tear your heart open. Or travel the world and fill your senses with freedom and delight. Develop a fine nose and a curious touch and a big collection of wondrous things and experiences. Or dive into the world of ideas and read and think and talk and discuss. Fill your mind with more and more nuanced perspectives. Cut through the fabric of existence and see the weave clearly and discerningly. Or devote yourself to the natural expression of the artist. Let go. Let flow. Express. Be in awe of all that comes through, and how much mysterious depth there is in you. Or search every corner of the globe for wells of connection. Relationship and presence, love and romance. Meet in a heightened state. Reach for golden gate.
Develop technology for all of humanity or a product maybe for a small company. Plant a seed, touch and care or push and stare. Make and innovate, chase a creative fate, so that you one day may have reached something.
Anything.
There is a line in the sand. A circle in fact, and you are sitting here within it. This familiar old place, the tingling of this same old body, the same voice, the same eyes, the same ears.. Can you see the line around you? Within it is here. Beyond it is the opportunity: Anything that you are capable of imagining.
Some things beyond the line are close. Perhaps the freedom to move your toes or rearrange something on the table. Other things are far beyond, more in the realms of fiction: "I want to be free of that addiction", walk tall as your aspirational self, Instagram worthy health and wealth. And some things fell over the edge: The youth you lost, the partner you didn't choose, or the career there is no time left to pursue.
So what do you do? Where do you go? What seeds shall we sow?
And I wonder much if we look often too far beyond. Like we all came to value freedom to the extent that here became a prison. Here inside the circle became a shuttle only for dreaming of the beyond. Send me from this sofa onto other planets, other lives, other bodies, other colors, other jobs, other incomes, other places, other partners, other childhoods, other memories, other friends, other confidence, other something.
Something other.
And I wonder much what it would do, if we could just find that simple stillness which is able to be here with exactly this same old, familiar me. Where are you running to? And why so far away?
Can't you just for a while stay?
Until next time,
Alexander
You’re still the best storyteller here Alexander 👏🏼
Beautiful message, be here now 💛 truly loved listening to this!