The Importance of Every Day

N. B. Talks

There are important things in this world.  Things that we all connect to.  Things that drive us every day to lift our heavy heads weighed down by dreams from the gravitational pull of the comfort of a soft pillow.  Some people hold these things sacred, fighting their own internal battle to get through each day, only showing the world what they think we want to see.  Some people pour every thought and every action in sight of others, to gain affirmation that they are on the right side of their warring thoughts.  

Nonetheless, we are all fighting something.  Is it the urge to eat that brownie?  The fear of being alone?  The sorrow of loss?  The fear of a wrong choice?  The denial of acceptance?  The lack of approval? 

We, as humans, are seekers.  We have the urge to do more, be more, explore, study, and understand both ourselves and the world.  Some of us do that by traveling the world and experiencing other cultures and life views and applying those to get a better grip on who we are.  Some of us get married young and have a family, living the classic American story, to watch a child grow into a fully realized person to give ourselves perspective on life within our world.  

All of us deviate from our journeys from time to time, sometimes hiding in the brush beside the road of truth, watching others walk by, sometimes judging those who have a path, and sometimes wishing someone would drag us from our hiding spaces and point us in the right direction.

Understanding that we all share this battle, makes if feel less like a battle.  Once we acknowledge that we all fight for the same cause, there becomes less to fight against, until one day we all realize we're all flowing down the same stream. . .   sometimes at different rates, sometimes down different channels, but we're all going the same direction.  To inhibit someone else's flow makes you the rock in a flood of water.  You will be worn down to sand and sink to the bottom, only to be overcome by the rushing rapids of other's success.   However, if we become the water, moving with the rest of the stream, it will give us the momentum to forge our own paths to get to the same destination.  

~N