Softness & Hardness
You HAVE to introduce softness and LOVE; into it all
This is for anyone (my past and my future self included) who at some point of their life built or is currently building a “rough” outer shell, a protective aura with spikes, because the world is mad and filled with seemingly evil selfish creatures. And we all are. Both.
Selfish and giving. Mad crazy aggressive and mad capable of love and oneness and transcendence. I ask you to be aware of how soft and how rough you are right now, today. With your self, with your neighbor, with your partner, with the people on your phone both text and screen, with the people you know and the ones you don’t.
Because life is a reflection. A mirror. A lake. The ocean. You project and it projects back. If day to day, you display this rough tough image of productivity, endurance, resilience, strength, and even, for some, fluid and chill within the madness, and you never let go, like fully let go, then where are you?
Guanacaste tree has strong roots and even stronger branches. It has very soft almost spongy leaves during rainy season in Costa Rica.
If we are rigid even when we disconnect, if we are caught in loops and sequences that don’t fully please us and elevate us, we truly are doomed. We must make a conscious effort of introducing softness and love. Into all. At all times.
To breathe deeply as you go and do mundane activity and feel the magic of being alive. To acknowledge the beauty of existence in every movement and every concept of our own being. To let go again and again. To smile.
I no longer want to define or pursue love. I want to BE love and I want to feel love. The world felt so empty for a while with the tragedies being shared constantly on social media. And suddenly I woke up. I decided to be soft with myself. I surely and softly opened to beauty, to the passing of time, to the memories of present, even if they were boring, not a rush of dopamine, stressful or painful, or just boring again.
Be soft.
Be peaceful.
Be respectful.
Listen to what God is saying. Listen to your desires.
Feel love. Be love. Send love. Give love.
If not today, tomorrow.
After 10 years or more of surfing, it has become an identity where I portray myself as strong. I have to constantly create spaces to breed and tap into softness.
