Suck the Marrow Out of Life
Posted on May 28, 2009 - Filed Under Living Fully |
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.” –Thoreau
I find that most people are living in a trance. They are simply existing, merely getting by until quitting time or the weekend or retirement. People are putting off living. When do you take the plastic off the couch? When do you use the fine china? When do you get to finally exhale and start living?
Believe me, many people will be dying before they realize they haven’t lived. We are fed a lie, all our lives, about what life is about. We are taught to be afraid, to conform. We take our Prozac and eat ourselves into oblivion so that we can tolerate waking up again to a new, mundane day.
It seems like some people are waking up, though. This site is about waking up. This site is about pulling the curtain back and seeing the wizard. You won’t live in fear of what might happen. Whatever happens, you certainly can handle it. Chances are, if you take some chances, amazing things will begin to happen.
You don’t have to be the singing, dancing crap of the earth any longer (thanks Fight Club). Put down your Potterybarn catalogue. I don’t care how cute the stuff in there is. You don’t need it to be happy. You don’t need it to live fully. You don’t need to acquire anything else to live the most extrordinary life possible. You have all that you need, but a shift must be made.
The time is now. If you wait, you will never start. There is never a perfect time to radically shift your thinking. The fact that you are here now, reading this site, means it is time. You are ready. Every moment you continue in the life you have been living is a moment wasted. I am not saying that anything external has to change – that is the opposite of what I am saying. You are the change.
Life is meant to be a roller coaster – and you are meant to be in the first seat, arms waving in the air. It is dancing, not sitting this one out. It is getting in the game, not sitting on the sidelines. Drop your inner dialogue that tells you it can’t be done. Laugh at the voice that tells you to play it safe. You get one shot at this life. You are the writer, director and the actor in your play. You are writing your autobiography as we speak – it better be good enough for you to want to read it.
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