No waiting room

NO WAITING ROOM

What if you didn't wake up tomorrow and your soul is 

watching down thinking of all the things you didn't

get to do yet because you were too scared, or too 

shy, or too worried about money.

And all the things you told yourself you weren't good

enough for, swam in front of your eyes, fighting for a

place in the line, beside the words you didn't say and

the joy you forgot to have.

My friend, there is absolutely no room for anything in

your day, other than acceptance.

You will never have enough money, or time, and you

will certainly never have that perfect body the world

told you you need, to be happy.

And before you say it's too late to embrace this thing

we call life, no it is not.

You can do right where you are. Right this minute.

Get outside, breathe, look at the trees, put your bare

feet on the grass - hand on your heart to feel that

pulse - and that's it.

You're living.

Keep that up.

Wait up for the moon sometimes to get up early to

see a sunrise, just because you can.

Jump in the lake. Run, skip.

The things you need to feel alive are free and all

around my friend.

You just have to see them.

Let in opportunity and say yes to the invitations that

scare you a little, in a good way.

Say no to some of the things you force yourself to do,

knowing they rinse you of your peace.

Life was never supposed to be a waiting room, it was

supposed to be a hillside, with paths leading in every

direction and mountains as far as the eye can see,

hiding adventures and new friends behind them.

Don't let yourself get to the end of this rise without

having stopped to smell those beautiful roses.

That's the only thing you need to fear in this life.

Everything else is all part of it.

It's just a messy, complicated, beautiful and 

terrifying part of it.

Chin up, throw your arms wide open

and let it be so.