Heavy weights

Honesty is the possibility to take a heavy weight off your mind. When you are honest about something, that thing does not clutter your thinking anymore, it no longer makes you wonder, it makes space for other things.

Just be mindful of whether that weight can be carried by the other person.

Hope

There’s what we hope it will happen.

There’s what we hope it won’t happen.

And often we hold on to the former to get motivation, inspiration, excitement. Or we let the latter drag us down, feed our fears, control our life.

But we forget that there are also a whole lot of possible in-betweens. Situations that do not match the one or the other perfectly, and are a mix of positive and negative.

That’s what we need to accept.

Life is in the middle.

Stick with it

Stick with something long enough and it will change you.

Stick with something you have chosen, something that is difficult, something that is inspiring, something you would not normally do, something that you had wanted to do for a long time. And it will become a passion, a second nature, an habit.

Stick with something long enough and it will save you.

Fullness

We constantly think at what is missing, the part of the journey we have not completed yet, what others have that we do not, the emptiness that we need to fill.

And by doing that we fail to notice the kind gesture, the moment of joy, the hand that’s being extended to us, the gratitude of our neighbour, the fullness that we don’t want to empty.

That’s how it goes.