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When did we start taking life so seriously?
Was it the first crisp bill plopped in our hand after a babysitting gig? Was it the first heartbreak, or was it something that you don’t want to or can’t remember?
So many people are living as if they are stranded in a dark room with no light switch, waiting, begging for someone to turn a light on. We complain about the darkness. We exhaust ourselves running our hands over the wall looking for the switch. Sometimes we call a friend and ask them how they are navigating their dark room and try to copy their solutions. Because life has taught us that we don’t have the ability to find our own way out of the dark—that light inside of us is something to be dimmed or isn’t sufficient enough.
I’m inviting you to consider an alternative narrative.
It’s one that not only will help you find the light within yourself, but also lower your stress, enhance your creativity, and draw in the light of others.
Stop running your hands over the wall looking for a switch that isn’t there & pick up a rock instead. Then pick up another and attempt to balance it on top of the first.
Go to the dollar store and buy a yo-yo and attempt to do all of the tricks you couldn’t do as a kid.
Put your butt in the sand. Fill a bucket with sand and build a kingdom.
You’re going to fail. That’s right—you’re going to fail.
But more importantly, you’re going to survive and probably try again until you succeed, because when your sandcastle collapses no one is coming to repossess it.
And when that sandcastle stands tall in the magnificent sun that victory is all yours.
Be curious. Play more.
Take life 5% less seriously than you did yesterday.
Your dark room will be waiting for you, but once you return it won’t be nearly as dark as you remember it.
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