Day 364---Don't Forget To Breathe

In this world of concrete and dead gods, of progression and the desire to overcome our weaker selves, we can, at times, forget to breathe.

It is not enough to walk through this world wounded and silent with your head down and eyes to the ground in fear. It is not enough to keep to yourself and let life unfold without a thought of placing your own hands on the wheel.

It is never going to be enough to keep your hope locked inside a jar and placed upon a shelf far too high to reach, you will need to eventually need to set your hope and desires free if you are to live at all.

In this world of broken dreams and impossible chaos, there is still hope that we can meet our own reflection without apprehension, that we can still learn to love ourselves, and learn to respect and trust the teacher within.

It is not going to be enough to think about a future with more time, especially when Time The Thief actively pursues that mindset with a terrible swiftness.

We must take our broken hearts and press forward into the unknown.

We must walk alongside the dark passenger, until we have reached an unknown destination somewhere in the untold future.

We must learn to listen to the universe as it speaks directly to our hearts.

In a world where perception is the only truth, where that truth is the most honest illusion, we must choose what story to tell ourselves, and we must choose what story to believe.

It is never going to be enough to wait for an answer in the haze of self defeat, one must walk ahead into the great and fear filled unknown, one must be willing to let themselves go in order to find themselves.

We must take these painful histories, and we must carry their weight into the future, until we are strong enough to let them go.

We must learn to see home as a place in the mind, a place in our hearts, and not the physical space in which we live.

In a world where a house called a home can burn down from the memory of another life, we must seek within for new places to call home, new places to rest our scared hearts, safer places to protect the ember inside.

It is never enough to simply think and feel, we must force our paralyzed minds to walk forward, and against the force of the storm we know as change.

It is never enough to simply have hope and hope alone.

In a world that continues to find ways to test our own will and our sincerity in all things, we must never forget to breathe.

In a universe that shows itself in our own reflection, we must never be afraid to open our own eyes, and above all else, we must never forget to keep alive that ember inside.

We must never let go of the hope that brought us this far, because that hope was always ever leading us back home.