LIVE BIG
Why live a teeny-tiny life? – doing tiny things with other tiny people -accomplishing the bare minimum if anything at all…simply existing. WHY NOT LIVE A BIG LIFE? “What is that?” You might ask especially if you hadn’t thought about life in terms of big or small or if you are unaware of living small. Living small, in my humble opinion, is defined by living beneath the potential granted to you by virtue of birth. One’s living small or large is not predicated upon anyone else’s standard of measurement other than your own.
Wherever you find yourself, know this to be true – LIFE IS A DAZZLING ADVENTURE. Each day begins with endless possibilities for exploration. We are Matthew Henson or George Washington Gibbs Jr. or Henry the Navigator of our life – we are the explorer of our unknown self.
Explorers leave the known. Stop clutching so tightly to the known that you choke out the fire of the unknown smoldering inside of you. Audibly acknowledge that there is something wonderful, mysterious, screwed and messed up maybe, but worth exploring with unknown depths and heights.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
We can agree, I hope, that the world is beautiful and messed up. It is filled with beautiful people and if you can’t find one – be one. If you feel you aren’t capable of being one, there lies a field for you to explore. The world is a living breathing organism and each of us is mandated to have influence on it.
Most mornings after the alarm is silenced, I will lay very still contemplating my next move. Most mornings, I get up – not because I am uncomfortable with the warm bed linens and the nest that I created over the last few hours, but because of a greater desire to prepare for the exploration of a new day.
The explorers that I referenced earlier, started with a desire to know more about this magnificent world. They opened their heart and mind to the broadening of their horizon and that desire created a path. They found the courage to Go – to leave the known for the unknown.
Autobiographically, I am discovering things I didn’t know existed within myself. Some of it I love and some of it …well. I read a quote by Dag Hammarskjold, “the more faithfully you (I) listen to the voice within you, (me) the better you (I) will hear what is sounding outside and only she who listens can speak.” Personally, listening and exploring me, informs the me that you experience as you read my words. I often do that exploring in the context of nature. Nature guides my thought process. I wouldn’t know that had I not been willing to explore my inner and outer world.
PONDER THIS THOUGHT---A big life is constructed by intentionally embracing millions of small things!
