The Overshare: I Like Loving Hard + How Do You Know I’m Not Dying?
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When they asked me as a child, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I responded: “I want to see the whole world and write it all down.” I used to travel internationally - a lot - for work and pleasure. My life was big on the outside, but felt small on the inside. I was operating with a bucket list - frantic with a checklist of things to do before I died - and the clock was ticking. And. All of those “things to do” required money. Now, I am traveling internally. My world is smaller on the outside - I travel from home to yoga to store to school to playground to park to therapy to Jaja’s house and back in a city that was never on my bucket list to visit. And my interior life is enormous. Yet sometimes I pray. Like when the clock turns 12:34 or 3:33. I take a pause. It is often a prayer for more - more clarity, more money, more work completed, more recognition, more travel, more understanding, more peace, more furniture, more health, more time, more time, more time….But if I pray long enough, if I sit long enough, I realize my ego has been doing the praying, and I am calmed by the profound truth that I have all I
The Overshare: I Like Loving Hard + How Do You Know I’m Not Dying?
The Overshare: I Like Loving Hard + How Do…
The Overshare: I Like Loving Hard + How Do You Know I’m Not Dying?
When they asked me as a child, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I responded: “I want to see the whole world and write it all down.” I used to travel internationally - a lot - for work and pleasure. My life was big on the outside, but felt small on the inside. I was operating with a bucket list - frantic with a checklist of things to do before I died - and the clock was ticking. And. All of those “things to do” required money. Now, I am traveling internally. My world is smaller on the outside - I travel from home to yoga to store to school to playground to park to therapy to Jaja’s house and back in a city that was never on my bucket list to visit. And my interior life is enormous. Yet sometimes I pray. Like when the clock turns 12:34 or 3:33. I take a pause. It is often a prayer for more - more clarity, more money, more work completed, more recognition, more travel, more understanding, more peace, more furniture, more health, more time, more time, more time….But if I pray long enough, if I sit long enough, I realize my ego has been doing the praying, and I am calmed by the profound truth that I have all I