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Friday Flow 9/4/20
The separation and alienation we sense form others is because we are caught in a space between two selves- George Kalantzis
What a weird place I've been in lately. It’s like I can feel and see parts of me stitch together as I find what was once lost. I have sat quietly over many years and witnessed the separation take place as I left the love for myself behind in search of something outside of me. But recently, I have begun to accept my entire story rather than rip out chapters as I am called into what is real.
At this moment I write these words, I can feel the air silently filling my body with life and realize I am very much alive.
Paradoxically, a search for happiness led to alienation and separation of others as I got caught in a chase for the most elusive desire-happiness. And so I have begun to see and realize I was looking in all the wrong places. When all I need is here, within these words as I stitch together the broken pieces of my past and turn them into an amazing story.
Somehow happiness has managed to slip away like water in cupped hands. With daily practice, I grow stronger and see it hasn’t slipped away, it is very much in front of me in the simplest form of life itself.
