daily reminder
This is a little late, mostly because I spent the last 24 hours fretting about this piece but here is a reminder about who we are…
Remember that your left lung is smaller than your right lung, simply to make room for the heart you hold in your chest. At the most primal level, your heart was favored. Your body knew. Our bodies knew. The breath in our lungs is intertwined with the beating of our heart on a level built in the building of our bodies. Your heart will never be incapable of growth. It will never cease to hold the whole damn world in it, so don’t try to stop it.
Remember you use 200 million cells to take even a single step forward. Do not vilify yourself for the journey you have walk till today. It has taken effort and every single aspect of your body has conspired to help you get to where you are.
Remember the tongue is one of the strongest muscles of your body. You were made to speak - to speak loudly, clearly, honestly about how you feel. Speak about what hurts you, speak about what has broken you. Speak about you find joy in, about when your heart flutters. Remember that the same carbon that course through the Earth that makes up mountains, is the bellwether for our bodies. The bulwark that rights the ship. Let this remind you to stand tall, like Everest, like Fuji, you are a force to reckoned with.
Remember you shed your skin every twenty seven days. You are not built to let the past seep deep into your bones. You aren’t meant to carry the weight of your guilt, of your grief. Your back should be straight, not hunched with what you carry. Forgiveness, redemption, resurrection are as integral to the health of your body as the sunrise is to the health of the planet we walk.
Remember that the bones within your body are as strong as granite. You are not broken, you won’t be made weak. When you feel like you cannot possibly bear the weight on your back, the weight of heartbreak, of growth, remember that your foundations are stronger than concrete. You are made to endure. You are made to withstand.
Thank you for joining this foray into this merriment, love, and sorrow. This view that life holds that ordinary and the unique. The common and the uncommon. Thank you and I’ll see you next Monday.
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