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Friday Flow 8/14

George Kalantzis
2 min readAug 14, 2020

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The moment where everything falls into place is when dope shit happens in my life.

Elevation 5,187 ft, NH

Here I am on a Friday morning at 6:17 contemplating life.

Writing how you speak is therapeutic, and it happens to be a decent way to write and find my voice. As usual, I am drinking a warm cup of coffee punching the keys of my MacBook Air letting words come to me.

Writing is a tool, a practice in which words become a reality. Anything I feel starts out with an impulse from experiences in life. My body works together to synch mind, body, and heart, as I enter into what feels like an altered state of consciousness.

The moment where everything falls into place is when dope shit happens in my life. It was only until recently did I truly begin to understand how life works. If you read any of my work, you know my journey.

The tricky thing about understanding how life works and what makes life so fulfilling is happiness is not achieved by accomplishments, money, or status, but rather cultivated by our unique experiences and how we control our inner world. There’s really no way to explain my happiness, or anyone’s for the matter, except understanding everything we experience is a representation of the mind itself. When we make connections to these experiences, we determine the reality to which it fits into our lives. I believe happiness is…

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George Kalantzis
George Kalantzis

Written by George Kalantzis

George is a professional storyteller, a dad to a sassy and adventurous eight year-old girl, and the author Of Nowhere To Go

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