Being conscious in consumption.

Dear, Reader it begins again. Our rotations have conjoined and we are one more cycle around basically happy new year I guess haha!

Today’s post is a little bit more chatty, more cozy, kind of intimate… I guess?

I talk a lot in this space about trying to be conscious of the moment of living life in the here and now and not sinking gently into oblivion, you know losing track of ourselves in the lives we lead, and it’s hard you know? Everything we do pulls our attention somewhere or onto something life is a smorgasbord of distraction which is sad to me because we are all miracles.

Events leading up to our creation was chance broken down into a fundamental level of steps in a stairway of luck and it’s kind of beautiful to think about how we got here intentionally unintentional.

So why should we ebb away in life not experiencing it intimately and appreciating the moment? Because life is cyclical we see what has happened what will happen and what is happening to us every day and by ebbing away life we just accept the reality of our futures as closed predictable and set. And while certain truths are inevitable my choice on how I get there is my own.

Ahh free will see how you snuck in there? I appreciate you.

Now dear, Reader I understand the ebb of life is sometimes intentional, we survive sometimes through life using the ebb and flow to stay above water and that’s fine this space is here for you as well bob along with us oh gentle soul raging against the flow of time we are the wind break from the storm space is intention and here may you feel safe, always.

But that’s why this idea holds so much sway for me, because it’s easy to ebb instead of swim in life we are bombarded by life constantly. aggressively spit-flecked and remorseless and I feel like we haven’t been taught how to deal with that, how to survive life? And so we close ourselves off, we board up, view from afar isolated and insubstantial “boundaries” so high we no longer exist with the system itself.

And this word, boundaries, is healthy, they are needed but there needs to be intentional purpose behind them.

So for this new cycle, this new turn, this gift starting anew be conscious of how you live this year dear, Reader.

Be conscious of what you consume create boundaries not to isolate but instead to siphon to be deliberate in the choices you make swim don’t ebb protect yourself through the power of choice.

Social Media? Food and Drink? Health? Life? Love?

All choices, all things we consume unconsciously as we flow down the stream trapped in the current with no idea that we just need to swim to the side stop fighting against the current, and instead start being decisive in how you wade the rapids.

I get dear, Reader, it’s a lot harder than it sounds, I’m learning to understand how to do this myself it’s a process and I make mistakes and the world sometimes does get in too deep, overwhelms, and cripples but you know what? That’s why I created this space, a break in the storm, so when it gets too much find space for yourself, and if you can’t make space, be conscious in your ability to choose.

Because this life is too short for us not to be at the helm of our own ships.

So swim with me in this moment dear, Reader, and picture your life. See the choices you have made, the choices you are going to make, and the choices you are making and float with me just for this moment, ebbing softly down this stream of life with me just for a little in this safe space, away from the noise, from the responsibilities from life…

And then when you feel you’re ready lift your head up look around and choose which direction you want to swim.