A Quick, Quiet Note
To my old, anxious self
What if, today…things were actually okay?
What if…for one day you did not worry about your health? About the future? About work? The kids? The animals? The things you cannot control?
Or stress about your life, your journey, whether or not you are in the right place doing the right thing?
What would life be like if…you lived in the Now and the Now was…calm?
Forgive and release the memories that haunt you and the things you have seen and experienced that hurt you to the marrow, became part of your DNA, the residential anticipatory fear that things will go wrong, the expectation of harm and disappointment and loss…
Let go of the deeply ingrained mistrust of everyone and everything, of the imaginary venomous creatures waiting to strike from beneath some hidden rock in your path.
Instead…just for today…accept the calm and the joy of being…a small black cat at your side…a bedside table of books and journals…a hot mug of tea…while outside lightning dots dark clouds, that, too, being part of this life, necessary somehow in the scheme of things…
This moment, it is okay that you are safe and all is well.
Breathe.
