Is it always that we realize after-the-fact that which we have been all along?
Suddenly, we look in the mirror and like whom it is we see in our reflection.
Has the person in the reflection dramatically changed?
Has the reflection changed?
Has the mirror altered its perspective?
Likely not.
More accurately, it is that our perception has morphed into a more concrete sense of reality, aligned by years gone by, experiences learned from and hopes not yet realized but dreams continually alive.
I wonder…
When a flower blooms does it realize its beauty and the sweetness of its nectar?
When a bee stings, does it know the effect of its stinger?
When a baby cries, does it know the power of that sound over its mother?
We are so asleep.
Asleep to the world.
Asleep to ourselves.
Asleep to the beauty around us…the beauty within us.
Why be “normal”?
Why sleep walk when we are free to walk with our eyes open…
If we so choose.
The world is a place worth living in, worth breathing the air of…
If we so choose...
To see it as a place in which doing so is a worthwhile effort,
A place worthy of our breath.
Too many are wasting away.
Too many are turning blue.
Too many have resigned to virtual living.
The choice is yours.
Do you choose to sleep during the entirety of this incarnation or awaken?
Do you choose life…or do you choose death?
Copyright 2010: Taylor Donovan
