You go on long enough, and far enough
You learn things
Things about how Everything works
At times it's awe inspiring, heady and delicious
Sometimes you wish you didn't know
But there's no way you'd go back
Not ever
So, you embrace it
Even when it puts space
Between you and others
And turns the acceptable and expected
Into the laughable and mindless
Chaos suddenly makes perfect sense
And all at once
It's WONDERFUL
No more worry about approval
And the difficult times are just that
Times that come and go like waves on the shore
Their only constancy in their ebb and flow
No more need to build stories to survive them
You don't define yourself by them
Any more than you'd do with the times
That slide by like ice cream on your tongue
It all comes and goes
And the magick is in how you decide to walk it every day
Pain doesn't define you. Bliss doesn't define you.
What's in that core within, the place where you KNOW
That's the place it all comes from.
Not your brain, that's just a processing center.
Send and receive from your core
In time, you'll get used to the feel of what makes sense for you
And what doesn't
Most of what's around us is just noise
Tune it out, often, and go within
