Once in a while, a feeling of revival swifts past you & you start to regain your senses. You begin to breathe deeper, every inhale and exhale a reminder of life within you. You begin to listen to all the sweet sounds happening all around you. You begin to see everything in vibrant colors. You begin to taste the deliciousness of life's pallet.
When this happens, I believe it is God or those that we have loved who past on reminding us of all the sweet pleasures life has to offer us. Blurred by all the complications life likes to throw at us ((bills, work, declining health, etc...)), we tend to allow these things to blanket our minds and lives making us believe that this is all there is. Life is a struggle, we think. Everyday we wake up, go to work, waste or slave away to earn a few dollars to eat and stay alive, retire from the day with a few moments with loved ones ((if that)) go to bed and start the process all over again.
However, in between those moments of waking up and going back to sleep we have a choice to steer off course and do something that will revive our passion and thirst for life. We can do simple things..visit a friend spontaneously, go the nearest park and read a book for 30 mins, have a glass of wine at a cozy restaurant, go to the beach or anywhere with water, take a walk, research an interesting subject you've been curious about, eat something deliciously sugary, listen to your favorite song from high school, visit your niece or nephew ((kids are God's gifts to the world, the innocence to the jadeness we shield ourselves with)).
Whatever it is that reminds you of how beautiful life is, they all have this one quality in its core: LOVE. Love wraps you up and craddles you as if you were back to being a baby in your mother's arms. It makes you feel safe, it makes you feel warm, it makes you feel like you can conquer anything if you had it with you at all times. Everyday I try to find love in simple things. Sometimes it's difficult because I get caught up in frustrating situations, but I try.
Then, with love, there is faith. Faith is a wonderful thing. It gives us power to believe in something much greater than us and our decisions, it gives us strength when devastating events happen to us, it reassures us and most of all, faith gives us promise. Promise for tomorrow, for eternity. It is enough to calm me and steer me back to life...to believe that the blurriness of life's struggles is temporary. It allows me to keep my optimism alive and love without regret.
With that, it is easy to want to explore the world and life but the hard part is to get the ball rolling and initiating it. Hunter S. Thompson did this perfectly and unapologetically. He coined the phrase with his documentary, "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride". We cannot enjoy life if we don't take the first step and buy the ticket. I take this literally and metaphorically. If we don't chose to allow love and faith to work within us ((buy the ticket so to speak)) then we will never experience the rivival of life in its purest form ((take the ride)).
