Today I found an article in The Guardian. , “If you think you hate everyone, have something to eat. If you think everyone hates you, go to sleep.” The article, written by Wendy Syfret, resonated, and whether it had to do with the idea of rest the idea of a banana the idea of appreciating mental health or the convoluted mess that we all find ourselves to have a tendency in either being aware of or completely neglecting. What I appreciated about the mantra was the simplicity, it seems to be something that I appreciate about most logical and clearly thought out perspectives of people that I either look to or hear from or like. Similar to what we’re discussing or I’m discussing that was found and the words hit the heart or both the mind and heart.
I think of life, love, and the very dear pursuit for happiness, though messy and convoluted, is not only a paradox wrapped up in the convoluted mess of strife and stress and wondering, but the beauty and simplicity that we have and learning and changing, to have that capability to have that freedom to make those choices not that I want to get on the argument of that big question in our philosophy classes as we grew up but I feel that that freedom and that capability to make that choice is that free will that we have to make the choice in making a change or not making a change to make a resolution or not.
So I take to that beautiful flower I call life and I pluck, sometimes delicately, other times with a bashing and thrashing that leaves a wilt or wrinkle. These choices, at each petal are my life choices, and those Life choices go and help or destroy the becoming of what I am and what I hope will be a better me tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.
I take heed to that mantra, and take heed to the life lived. We live in a world where you and I, the person beside you, and those scrolling and doing the usual routine of screen absorption, vying for others lives lived and yearning for change, pull away, Take a breath, take a bite, and if you need take that nap. Become your own world, become the island or universe you want to embrace and shine through.
“If you think you hate everyone, have something to eat. If you think everyone hates you, go to sleep.”
Nosce Te Ipsum
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