Dancing The Path
Yesterday I danced for the first time in a long time and I even did a cartwheel for the first time in like 10 years, lol.
Today I think I'm going to do some poetry, I didn't feel like expressing myself in such ways when my dad was in such a serious condition... Now that he's doing so much better and he's coming home tomorrow I feel a lot better!
Oh, also he reached his goal of 800 steps that he wanted to get before coming home!
This year I was planning to be out in nature and exploring/exercising a lot more and it felt good to finally get out!
I did go on a few amazing "quests" with my family, but I haven't been out on my own since early January.
There's some really special things happening and I hope I get to share it when the time is right.
On my journey yesterday I did find some fascinating new stuff and I saw mostly birds... I thought I may have seen an eagle again but it was too far to really say much, though it was flying alone and it seems like ravens/crows usually fly in groups... I did see some crows/ravens later and I stumbled onto a falcon! It landed close by and I was almost able to get my camera ready to film it and then it flew off... Darn, but at least I got to see it for myself and it was cool!
Recently I've been thinking... In a world so obsessed with money and not having a lot of money myself it's amazing to me to be able to find an adventure that no amount of money could buy.
It's difficult to put into words, but... It reminds me that someone poor like myself can be rich in other ways that the richest people on the planet in terms of financial wealth could not easily or accurately replicate without an unreasonable amount of luck.
There is magic to be found out there which is just different than our system can properly understand or define and which just does not fit into that "box" of conformity.
I missed out on some things because I didn't toe the line and do what everyone else does so to speak...
And, in some ways I regret that and wish I could have found a better balance.
But, that being said... The amount of magic that I've been able to find by being different and being a weirdo who didn't really fit in anywhere has been immeasurable.
That's one of the greatest pleasures in life for me is reflecting on being exceptionally unique and different in a world that tries to fit everyone into molds and boxes and to have such an amazing individual tale or story that no one else can tell.
It is very good to know that your father's health is recovering every day dear @apolymask!
Yes, our life is an exceptional movie in which we are the main protagonist, scriptwriter and director. We are responsible for all the characters and actions and locations that appear and will appear in it. Money is very important, because it helps us to have "freedom" as Jim Carrey says! Freedom to buy and do infinite things. But for those intimate moments with ourselves and nature there is no currency that can make transactions.
I think that more than a poet, you woke up as a philosopher!
Thank you for the kind and thoughtful words in regard to my father. :)
Life is a lot like a movie! Or perhaps like an interactive videogame, I'm not sure that we set up all the characters and such though? I think some of that might be random or coincidence? But, then again perhaps in the broader spiritual picture whatever was going to happen is what did happen.
I'm not against the idea of money. It can serve a helpful purpose in ways, but the main money systems in the world are corrupted and used in unhealthy ways by many.
Agree with the last part about moments with ourselves and nature and no currency can buy such, ot at least no man made currency.
Heh. Perhaps, though I've been a philosopher for a long time. I do feel like I am reaching much higher levels though!
I believe that if we dedicate more time to refine, in our favor and in favor of our environment, the things over which we really have control then the corrupt world will be there, like the images that haunt the protagonist of the movie a bewitching mind which he cannot stop seeing, but he has decided that he will not pay attention to them and will not continue to deteriorate his quality of life.
Take care dear @apolymask
I like what you say about poverty and wealth, wealth is not always material, what's more, when we feel happy we feel rich, millionaires, like you now that your father is much better, what greater wealth is that