Friday Feelings 11/22/19

A Place Where I Flex My Emotional Muscles

Bruce Lee Said Life Simply Is. — Living exists when life lives through us. So, in order to live life wholeheartedly, the answer is, life simply is.

Next week is Thanksgiving. It is the first holiday as a single dad. And that is painful. But life is sometimes unpleasant, and I know this is here to teach me a valuable lesson.

Which brings me to gratitude and love. The foundation of what allows me to see things as they are with no meaning attached. As I sit here this morning, drinking my coffee contemplating what is, I’m grateful for all that life has given me. At this moment, nothing matters. No more wondering what comes next or what happened yesterday. Just here, at this moment, drinking expensive coffee, with my thoughts and my words.

I think I’ve neglected my feelings for so long that I wasn’t able to enjoy life.

It’s absurd to think I believed happiness could be achieved by attaining materialistic goals. How egotistical of me. But that man is dead. Not in a physical sense, but emotionally and spiritually, he doesn’t exist anymore.

And that feels amazing.

I’m discovering that the meaning of life is to live in this present moment. And to live is to express, and to express, you must create. It’s an…