Don't wait 'til I'm dead

An ethos on the items we cherish

Recently, I have been amidst a deep shapeshifting metamorphosis which is testing who I am to my core. I realize there is nothing out there I truly want to ‘do’ in a sense, and as I enter my final bit of time at school, I realize the beauty of university is the possibility to create your own path.

As someone creative, there is nothing more appealing than trying something new, and I believe it’s time to start thinking outside of the proverbial box.

This years energy has been one of the trickiest to metabolize and work with. It’s been a strong energetic shift and pivot into a space many of us don’t want to be in but, we can not deny ourselves of joy.

It is of the utmost priority to be able to find small pockets of joy. Joys which bring smiles to our faces and connect us to what it means to be human.

For those of you who have been here since the beginning, maybe you remember my ethos on what we cherish, or maybe you don’t.

To those of you who joined mid-chapter, or a bit later, maybe this will be new, but, I have an ethos, and that is to use the things that I love and am saving right away.

In life, we have absolutely no idea what will happen each and every day. This is both the joy and the worry of existing. But there is beauty in enjoying the items that bring us joy, while we are alive, well, and healthy.

Life makes no promises.

So my life ethos is as follows:

Do not save your favorite belongings until you are gone.

Use that tapestry you love and adore.

Decorate your home with the decorations you cherish for special ocassions.

Invite a close friend over and crack open that very special bottle of wine and share a nice meal and laugh into the sunset.

Don’t wait for joy to find you.

Tell those you love and cherish how much they mean to you while they are still here.

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Written under a Cancer sun and an Aquarius moon feeling too tired to be dramatic.

A song I love:

Some recent photos I have taken during my gentle, quiet, summer:

We cannot expect to grow as a society by expecting different upbringings to produce like minded thinking.

Let’s start stretching our own limits and come together, for humanity’s sake.