One Apple A Day #558 - a pause
Sometimes I have the feeling that all our doing, our being busy, our effort in filling up our lives with things, with people, with experiences, it's just a way to avoid listening to what wants to emerge. You may give it different names depending on your culture and your upbringing; call, vocation, purpose. Whatever the label you decide to use, you know what I'm talking about. It is that feeling like when you fall in love with someone. And no matter your will or your reasoning, it's a force that pulls you towards the other person. It is a beautiful feeling, but it is also scaring. Because to live it fully we need to let go of our desire to control, we need to surrender and welcome the not knowing.
So, we fill up every space in our lives to block that force from emerging. What if what wants to emerge is too challenging? What if it pulls us towards places we don't know how to reach? What if it challenges us to step away from the things on which we built the lives we have?
And yet, can you think to something more blissful than falling in love? What it takes is just slowing down a bit, taking a pause, a step back creating an opening in our crazy life, so we can make space for what wants to emerge.