The Fit

It doesn’t quite slide together, but you think you can jam it in anyways. So you lean your shoulder into it and push. The wood answers with a scrape. A few more hard shoves might close it.

Then again, pushing against resistance might ruin everything.

This happens all the time in life. You find yourself returning to the same conversation, and it just keeps stalling out with no resolution. You push harder because you’ve already spent time, hope, and pride. You think you want something in the future and you lose focus on the thing right in front of you.

Hard work has a place. Life asks us to keep going no matter what.

But no amount of pressure can make a crooked piece straight.

Circles and squares just do not line up with eachother, and that is okay.

When Life Resists, Acquiesce

Take a pause and breathe in through your nose before you add more force. Look for what is actually stopping the flow: it could be time, a promise, or a picture in your head that doesn’t line up with reality.

Try again with more patience. Maybe the fit was wrong from the start.

Maybe you just need to be humble and have faith that everything will be okay.

Hard shoves are usually misplaced. It can feel like progress ~ pushing and pushing and pushing. Eventually… the frame breaks when you put too much pressure on it.

Turn your attention toward the part you can touch, and focus only on the things under your control.

Rooms will be loud. Clocks will keep on ticking. You are not running late. You are not behind. You are exactly where you are supposed to be. Relax, and find yourself in alignment with the universe.

Rushing is overrated.

Take responsibility for the parts of life that belongs to you. Look inside yourself and find what you never could in the world. Then let life show you what it needs from you.

You don’t prove your strength by forcing your way through the world. Accepting things as they come is the natural path, and life is more rewarding when we take everything in stride.

Being flexible and ready is the way of the ocean. Don’t confuse yourself with a single wave. Remember that we all come back to ourselves in the end ~ now, later, or at the end of it all.