A Wabi-Sabi fall reflection

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When you see a leaf falling this time of year, know that you’re witnessing a one time event. It grew strong and held on through a year of wind, rain and storms. When it finally let go, you were there to watch it fall. You may be the first person to notice that leaf throughout its entire existence, only to recognize it upon death. It’s entire life it chose to blend in with the crowd, forever cursed to anonymity, having its moment of acknowledgment posthumously.

Do not be the leaf.

Revile in your accolades as you thrive in this life and take chances, shining in your achievements and conquests. Let your fear of failure take a backseat to the daunting notion of perpetual procrastination. You’re already at the front of the line, don’t forget that. Our time on earth is finite and this is without controversy. Indulging in self serving tactics to progress in your venture will lead to certain defeat of your legacy and character. Live life in the company of your loved ones, business and personal. Let not your earthy goals be measured by digits and sums. Give in silence, work in darkness and create a foundation for those that come after you. Lead a life of noble purpose in the venture of your choosing.

Or choose to do nothing and you’ll fall into obscurity with the rest of them.

Level Zero

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A full manifestation of primal visceral rage followed by zen state conscious transforming meditation. Culminate both in the human experience and only then are you awake to the spectrum of futility in the eyes of our existence. Your ego as grand as the tallest mountain.

They laugh at you as you’re banished from all written existence. An ounce of fresh water kicked into the ocean from a long pier. Sunset delves to darkness on choppy waters. Achievements and pillars of your success dispersed amongst the masses that surround you, shouting the same in every tongue. Once important and manipulative, you’ve become gray in a sea of black. Incapable of shining brighter than those who pull you down, still invoking your tried and true tactics as you seek to emerge from the bucket of mediocrity. The only way out is admission of fault. Repentance of the soul and a willingness to learn.

Reborn with a purpose.  The path to warmth is love. Endless wrenching moments have purged the evil from you at your deepest and darkest depths. You’ve become vulnerable and pure. Open to receive what it has to show you. Ascend to the light, become a being of peace. Live again once more, only now with an unconditional love for others. Offer an unemotional response to those who seek to judge and challenge you, for they have yet to know the depths required to stand as a whole being. One of fault and recovery. Your love for them will calm the rage, confusion and hurt inside them. See in them what you’d once known in your former self. Be the safety net they’ve longed for yet hadn’t ever known to seek.

The true purpose of existence is to pass along knowledge. Invoke an ongoing realm of cyclic progress. Regardless of the commencement moment, seek culmination of fulfillment into peace and happiness by way of enlightenment. Accept you’re drops in the ocean and embrace your divine purpose.

Crossing Over

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Those who romance war are as naïve as children on their first day of school. Excited to attend, yet soon stricken with a fear from which you’ve been sheltered. A foreign place, void of all safety and familiarity. You’d beckoned this day to come, prepared for it your whole life. On this day, your preconceived notions of invulnerability are shattered. Growth and change are forced upon you. Some embrace and shine, while others cower, waining for the safety of what once was. Pivotal moments that forever change us. Bonds formed, challenges endured, hardships etched into memory as deep as our soul. Be objective in your thoughts and guard your narrative from becoming skewed. Events worthy of commendation need not warrant a lifelong obligation to despair. Stave off the temptation of prescribed vices that offer solace and resolution. Find beauty in simplicity and pursue a life filled with notable family memories over reoccurring hardships. Be proud of your accomplishments, even if hindsight dictates the action regrettable by those far above your pay grade. Allow the transgressions of your youth to empower you in proper decision making for the rest of your life.