Our Duty

We are born from, and a part of Nature.

Instinctual beings, blessed with sentience.

Gifted the ability to experience life.

Gifted to reflect on experiences had.

As is all life on earth, we are unique physical manifestations of the universe, blessed with intelligence and cognition.

The universe incarnate, with the gift to choose.

We are divine beings.

(Apparently) the probability of being born as who we are, where we are, within the time we are, is four hundred trillion to one.

Is this enough for you to show absolute respect and honour toward this existence you call life?

If not, then nothing will be.

To pay unconditional respect and honour to your life is to take responsibility.

Fully.

Completely.

Unequivocally.

Excuses

Do not exist.

In taking responsibility, there is acknowledgement of no perfect route.

There is His path,

Her path,

My path,

and there is Your path.

It can only be found within.

It can only fully-resonate with you.

It is the endless recognition of your emergent truth.

And in recognising its ever-emergent nature is to walk from a place of humility.

To accept that we don’t know.

That we will never

Fully

Know.

That stumbling and falling is inevitable.

And these missteps reveal the path ahead.

To recognise the journey is simply walked by putting one foot in front of the other.

Our only task in honouring ourselves is to honour ourselves.

To consciously take the next step.

To intentionally walk the path.

Even if the next step is not to step at all.

We needn’t hold ourselves against immeasurable targets.

We needn’t demean, deprecate, and criticise effort.

Doing so is expecting to swim the ocean in a single stroke.

To scale the mountain in a single leap.

To traverse the forest in a single stride.

To cross the desert in a single step.

In taking responsibility, there is a clear discernment between rest and procrastination.

Less than a hair’s breadth between the two.

Only we, ourselves, can separate them.

Only we know what supports the journey.

Only we know what takes us from it.

Only we know whether or not we lie to ourselves.

Only we are truly capable of holding ourselves to account.

There is nothing else to it.

There is everything else from it.

We begin and end from within.

With the choice of honour or dishonour;

With the choice of respect or disrespect,

Of this divine gift that statistically, we’ve no right to receive.

Yet sacredly, we have every obligation.

To remember our truth.

To say what we need to say.

To express with utter purity.

It is our greatest privilege.

It is,

Our only duty.

Originally published at https://www.findingspace.co on August 27, 2020.