What it means to live is a personal perspective, informed by history and current choices. To live fully can be travel, the joy of close family, love, and all that the creative mind brings. It can be simply to appreciate the options life gives: the few, the many.
“ Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
Walt Whitman
Life moves too quickly to overthink and give procrastination dominance, but to plan gives weight to temporal existence and time. A bit existential, but truth non the less. Walt Whitman’s quote, “ Do anything, but let it produce joy.” should be our light, as we build our maps forward.
It is easier said than done to live life to the fullest, but a worthy task none the less.
The mind often loses itself in the flow of creativity. We are lost in wonder while viewing a sunset, the complexity of a fossilized stone or the dash and dive of a dragonfly over water. Losing time in the flow of beauty is living life and seeing life, and then carrying it forward, by way of memory. “When you’re inspired by the past and you’re creative in the present,” says Axel Vervoordt, “you are part of the future.”
“This is how living life works: as origami, unfolding.”
The future does not have to be overwhelming, it depends upon how we deal with things today. What we create is manifested from what we choose to see and wrap ourselves within. We can run, of which I am good at, or we can stand determined, where I eventually end. There are options, where results derive themselves, creating our way forward and in turn, bridges. This is how living life works: as origami, unfolding.
It is easy to complicate life by adding more than what we can carry: mentally and physically. If we stop and see, we know what we are lacking and if desired, adjust. Rather than adding more to the already too much, we can decipher and edit. This is the beauty of life and creating the future, where less is more and meaning and purpose expand. To simplify life is to exemplify its beauty, to lesson the noise and pause within.
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